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The Domenico Paulon Foundation at a glance

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The Domenico Paulon Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$15k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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$302kInternational$171kPublic Safety & Disaster$61kEnvironment$53kAnimals$53kFood & Nutrition$52kHuman Services$15k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NY African Film Festival$15,000
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%All Hands and Hearts - Smart Response: $9k → 8%NY African Film Festival: $15k → 17%FOOD BANK OF NEW YORK CITY: $6k → 28%FINCA International: $9k → 14%THE CARTER CENTER: $9k → 14%AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL: $15k → 17%FEEDING AMERICA: $6k → 28%THE CARTER CENTER: $9k → 14%AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL: $15k → 17%The Carter Center: $9k → 14%NY African Film Festival: $15k → 17%THE CARTER CENTER: $8k → 14%AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL: $15k → 17%THE CARTER CENTER: $8k → 14%AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL: $15k → 17%AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL: $15k → 17%AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL: $10k → 17%NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENCE COUNCIL: $9k → 17%Natural Resources Defense Council: $9k → 17%NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENCE COUNCIL: $9k → 17%NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENCE COUNCIL: $8k → 17%NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENCE COUNCIL: $8k → 17%CUNY GRADUATE CENTER: $9k → 17%CUNY GRADUATE CENTER: $9k → 17%CUNY Graduate Center: $9k → 17%CUNY GRADUATE CENTER: $8k → 17%CUNY GRADUATE CENTER: $8k → 17%NEW YORK PHILHAMONIC EDUCATION FUND: $9k → 17%DOCTORS WITHOUT BOARDERS USA: $9k → 17%NEW YORK PHILHAMONIC EDUCATION FUND: $9k → 17%DOCTORS WITHOUT BOARDERS USA: $9k → 17%New York Philharmonic Education Fund: $9k → 17%DOCTORS WITHOUT BOARDERS USA: $8k → 17%NEW YORK PHILHAMONIC EDUCATION FUND: $8k → 17%DOCTORS WITHOUT BOARDERS USA: $8k → 17%NEW YORK PHILHAMONIC EDUCATION FUND: $8k → 17%NEW YORK PHILHAMONIC: $7k → 17%FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $9k → 17%FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $9k → 17%FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $8k → 17%FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $8k → 17%WNYC New York Public Radio: $9k → 17%THE FIELD: $7k → 17%WNYC NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $9k → 17%WNYC NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $9k → 17%WNYC NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $8k → 17%WNYC NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $8k → 17%WNYC NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $7k → 17%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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$647k · 16 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
9

Total granted

$647k
$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+29%

Still filing today

63%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalArts & CultureAnimalsPublic Safety & DisasterCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther
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

  • AF
    AFRICAN FILM FESTIVALINC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $115k · revenue +489%
  • TC
    THE CARTER CENTER INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $53k · revenue +38%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $53k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • NY
    New York Philharmonic Education Fund
    one grant, 2023 · $9k
  • FI
    FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue +10%
  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue +29%
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
City Harvest Inc

To end hunger in communities throughout new york city. (see schedule o)to end hunger in communities throughout new york city. we do this through food rescue and distribution, education, and other practical, innovative solutions.

Food & Nutrition
2
The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International
3
Food and Environment Reporting Network Inc

Fern seeks to make the food system more sustainable and equitable through powerful journalism and storytelling.

Food & Nutrition
4
Food Bank Association of New York State

The mission of feeding new york state is to lead a unified effort for a hunger-free state of new york. the mission of food banking is to obtain food and deliver it to emergency food programs. feeding new york state works to end hunger by…

Food & Nutrition
5
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
6
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
7
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
8
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
9
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
10
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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11
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
12
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa; the most unlike its peers is Kittykind Inc. 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

14 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. 14 of the 25 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CUNY GRADUATE CENTER: $53,000 · OtherCUNY GRADUATE CENTERFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $44,500 · OtherFINCA INTERNATIONAL INCNATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENCE COUNCIL: $44,500 · OtherNATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENCE COUNCILNEW YORK PHILHAMONIC EDUCATION FUND: $38,500 · OtherNEW YORK PHILHAMONIC EDUCATION FUNDFEEDING AMERICA: $17,500 · OtherFEEDING AMERICAIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNew York Philharmonic Education Fund: $8,500 · Other+5 more: $28,000 · Other+5 moreAFRICAN FILM FESTIVALINC: $115,000 · Arts & CultureAFRICAN FILM FESTIVALINCNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $54,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIONew York City Master Chorale Inc: $16,000 · Arts & CultureNew York City Master Chorale …THE CARTER CENTER INC: $53,000 · InternationalTHE CARTER CENTER INCMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $53,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERE…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $23,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN I…ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA: $11,500 · InternationalACTION AGAINST HUNGER -…FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $8,500 · InternationalFINCA INTERNATIONAL INCKITTYKIND INC: $53,000 · AnimalsALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $38,000 · Public Safety & DisasterFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $17,500 · Community ImprovementNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $8,500 · EnvironmentFeeding America: $5,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$249,500Arts & Culture$185,000International$149,000Animals$53,000Public Safety & Disaster$38,000Community Improvement$17,500Environment$8,500Food & Nutrition$5,500

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 budgetAFRICAN FILM FESTIVALINC: $115,000 over 8y, 8.2% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $54,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $53,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetKITTYKIND INC: $53,000 over 7y, 8.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $53,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $38,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $23,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew York City Master Chorale Inc: $16,000 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA: $11,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFeeding America: $5,500 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 AFRICAN FILM FESTIVALINC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
  • Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds KITTYKIND INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
  • Who funds New York City Master Chorale Inc ↗
  • Who funds ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA ↗
  • Who funds FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Domenico Paulon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Domenico Paulon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 25 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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