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The Dan Paul Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$42k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2024
16
Organizations funded FY2023
69%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 17
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$754k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 69% of the organizations The Dan Paul Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 66% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalEducationHuman ServicesReligionHealthPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving4$42k25%
FY202316$72k69%
FY202213$50k62%
FY202111$44k64%
FY20209$47k89%
FY201911$49k64%
FY201815$51k60%
FY201717$59kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$110kInternational$54kFood & Nutrition$47kHealth$47kHuman Services$42kYouth Development$31kEducation$30kHousing & Shelter$30kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
MT
WI
NY
MA
WY
IN
PA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
SC
DC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($187k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Dan Paul Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMona Foundation: $42,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCenter for Music by People With Disabilities: $25,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetMighty Writers: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKismet Rock Foundation: $8,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetThe Shack: $7,500 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetLa Puente Home Inc: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Action of Southold Town Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCommunity-Word Project Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMarch of Dimes Inc: $5,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetForkids Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJohnson County Senior Center: $5,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPerkins School for the Blind: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGiving Alternative Learners Uplifting Opportunities Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBoys Grow Corp: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of Anderson South Carolina: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOrphans Africa: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetThe Community Partnership: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetChild Crisis Arizona: $4,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKnoxville Leadership Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWhite's Residential & Family Services Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUrban Hope Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLowcountry Community Chaplaincy: $2,500 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetFreedom House Ministries Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBuilding Youth Around the World: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetReflections of Trinity Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Tennessee Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOxfam-America Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHuman Rights for Kids: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFaith Hope & Love Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSmile Train Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarine Toys for Tots Foundation: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 35.

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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.

The Tapestry Foundation IncNY13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Tapestry Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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.

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About The Dan Paul Foundation

How much does The Dan Paul Foundation give?
The Dan Paul Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $42,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Dan Paul Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (26%), International (13%), Food & Nutrition (11%).
Who are The Dan Paul Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Mona Foundation ($43k), Center for Music by People With Disabilities ($25k), Johnson County Arts Council ($20k).
Does The Dan Paul Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 69% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Dan Paul Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Dan Paul Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Tapestry Foundation Inc, American Endowment Foundation, Charities Aid Foundation America.
Where is The Dan Paul Foundation based?
The Dan Paul Foundation is based in TN.

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 68 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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