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Regnar & Beverly Paulsen Foundation at a glance

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Regnar & Beverly Paulsen Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$19k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$19kHuman Services$18kHealth$13kFood & Nutrition$10kEnvironment$7kPhilanthropy$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kRecreation & Sports$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$444k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Hillsdale College$5,000
North Clackamas Christian School$4,000
St Johns Retirement Village$2,500
Arizona State University$1,919
National Child Safety Council$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Arizona State University: $2k → 11%Susan Clark Schools: $500 → 8%Ag in The Classroom: $1k → 12%St John's Retirement Village: $15k → 16%National Child Safety Council: $500 → 13%Hillsdale College: $5k → 14%North Clackamas Christian School: $5k → 8%Ag in The Classroom: $1k → 12%Woodland Healthcare Foundation: $10k → 16%National Child Safety Council: $500 → 13%North Clackamas Christian School: $4k → 8%AG IN THE CLASSROOM: $550 → 12%Spencer Leslie Olam: $5k → 16%Ag in The Classroom: $300 → 12%Woodland Healthcare Foundation: $3k → 16%Yolo Land Trust: $3k → 16%St Johns Retirement Village: $3k → 16%Yolo Community Foundation: $2k → 16%YOLO LAND TRUST: $2k → 16%Yolo Land Trust: $1k → 16%YOLO COUNTY FARM BUREAU EDUCATION CORP: $1k → 16%Yolo Land Trust: $1k → 16%Laurel Maggiore: $1k → 16%Yolo Community Foundation: $1k → 16%Yolo Community Foundation: $1k → 16%Yolo Farm Bureau: $750 → 16%Yolo Community Foundation: $500 → 16%Mosaic Children's Museum: $300 → 16%Yolo County Farm Bureau Education C: $200 → 16%Woodland United Way: $100 → 16%STROLL THROUGH HISTORY: $100 → 16%YOLO COUNTY CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $500 → 16%Kaylie Christison: $5k → 16%Yolo Food Bank: $2k → 16%Meals on Wheels Yolo County: $2k → 16%Meals on Wheels Yolo County: $1k → 16%Meals on Wheels Yolo County: $1k → 16%Meals on Wheels Yolo County: $500 → 16%Meals on Wheels Yolo County: $500 → 16%YOLO COMMUNITY FUND: $500 → 16%Meals on Wheels Yolo County: $400 → 16%Woodland Christian School: $400 → 16%MEALS ON WHEELS YOLO COUNTY: $300 → 16%ALL AMERICAN SPORTS ACADEMY: $200 → 16%Heidrick Ag History Center: $200 → 16%Woodland Girls Fastpitch Softball: $150 → 16%WOODLAND TREE FOUNDATION: $150 → 16%All American Sports Academy: $150 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$55k · 8 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
16

Total granted

$55k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+12%

Still filing today

63%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentFood & NutritionEducationPublic Safety & DisasterCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • SJ
    ST JOHNS RETIREMENT VILLAGE
    2× · 2023–2025 · $18k · revenue +153%
  • NC
    NORTH CLACKAMAS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
    2× · 2024–2025 · $9k · revenue +3%
  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS YOLO COUNTY
    7× · 2017–2023 · $6k · revenue +173%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • YF
    YOLO FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -25%
  • YC
    YOLO COUNTY FARM BUREAU EDUCATION CORP
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +16%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Yolo County Library Foundation

To enhance the ability of the Yolo County Library to provide library services to its widespread and diverse population by supporting reading programs and its 7 branch libraries. Our current funding priorities are 1)early literacy so…

Education
2
Yolo Healthy Aging Alliance

To promote the well being of older adults in Yolo County through education, collaboration and advocacy.

Human Services
3
Yolo County Farm Bureau

Solve farm related problems

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4
Yolo Basin Foundation

Expand public appreciation and stewardship of wetlands and wildlife in the Yolo Basin through education and innovative partnerships

Environment
5
Bear Yuba Land Trust

Bear Yuba Land Trust exists to conserve and protect the natural, working, and cultural lands in the Bear and Yuba River watersheds and empower a healthy, resilient community through nature access and education.

Environment
6
Yolo County Arts Council

YoloArts is dedicated to cultivating and enriching people's lives through the arts.

Arts & Culture
7
Yuba River Charter School

Yuba River Charter School provides K-8 public Waldorf education that nurtures the physical, emotional and intellectual capacities of the child through a developmentally appropriate curriculum. YRCS brings forth the academic, social,…

Education
8
The Noyo Food Forest

Educate on sustainably grown food

Youth Development
9
Ygnacio Valley Christian School Association Inc

To collaborate with families in educating students with a biblical worldview as they become followers of Jesus Christ in their homes, church, and community.

Education
10
Yolo County Spca

To continuously improve the welfare of the animals in the community through programs that promote the adoption of homeless animals into permanent, loving homes; humane education; spay/neutering; and the trapping, altering, and releasing of…

Animals
11
Make It Happen for Yolo County

The purpose of make it happen for yolo county is to provide support, resources, referrals and community outreach to under-served and at risk youth of yolo county.

Human Services
12
Winters Healthcare Foundation Inc

Providing compassionate care, as partners with our community, to improve lives and inspire health.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yolo Land Trust; the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST JOHNS RETIREMENT VILLAGE: $17,500 · OtherST JOHNS RETIREMENT VILLAGEWoodland Healthcare Foundation: $12,500 · OtherWoodland Healthcare FoundationIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAg in The Classroom: $2,850 · OtherAg in The ClassroomArizona State University: $1,919 · Other+12 more: $4,550 · Other+12 moreNORTH CLACKAMAS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $9,000 · EducationNORTH CLACKAMAS CH…HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $5,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGEMEALS ON WHEELS YOLO COUNTY: $5,950 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON W…YOLO FOOD BANK: $2,000 · Food & NutritionYOLO FOOD …YOLO LAND TRUST: $6,000 · EnvironmentYOLO LAND…YOLO COUNTY FARM BUREAU EDUCATION CORP: $1,000 · EnvironmentYOLO COUN…+1 more: $150 · EnvironmentYOLO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4,500 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL CHILD SAFETY COUNCIL: $1,000 · Public Safety & DisasterYOLO COUNTY CHILDRENS ALLIANCE: $500 · Crime & Legal
Other$49,319Education$14,000Food & Nutrition$7,950Environment$7,150Philanthropy$4,500Public Safety & Disaster$1,000Crime & Legal$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST JOHNS RETIREMENT VILLAGE: $17,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNORTH CLACKAMAS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $9,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYOLO LAND TRUST: $6,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS YOLO COUNTY: $5,950 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOLO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetYOLO FOOD BANK: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CHILD SAFETY COUNCIL: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOLO COUNTY FARM BUREAU EDUCATION CORP: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOLO COUNTY CHILDRENS ALLIANCE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOODLAND UNITED WAY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds ST JOHNS RETIREMENT VILLAGE ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CLACKAMAS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds YOLO LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS YOLO COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds YOLO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YOLO FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CHILD SAFETY COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds YOLO COUNTY FARM BUREAU EDUCATION CORP ↗
  • Who funds YOLO COUNTY CHILDRENS ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds Woodland Tree Foundation ↗
  • Who funds WOODLAND UNITED WAY ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Sacramento Region Com…Clark Pacific Foundat…Teichert FoundationSutter Valley Hospita…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Sacramento Region Community FoundationCA19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Clark Pacific Foundation · Teichert Foundation · Sutter Valley Hospitals · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Regnar & Beverly Paulsen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Regnar & Beverly Paulsen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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