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The Edwin W Pauley Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$182k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 17
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$1.3M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Edwin W Pauley Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther
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
FY2025still arriving9$167k22%
FY20247$102k0%
FY20237$80k14%
FY202210$150k0%
FY202111$113k36%
FY20209$85k44%
FY201911$120k36%
FY201817$165kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$342kArts & Culture$300kHealth$60kYouth Development$38kHuman Services$33kCommunity Improvement$30kAnimals$15kScience & Tech$15kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Windward School$105,00070%
Las Madrinas$63,50052%
Bowdoin College$50,00020%
Idaho Dark Sky Alliance Inc$35,5001n/a
Palisades Charter High School$32,00060%
Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences$30,00030%
Palisades High School Booster Club$28,50061%
Sun Valley Summer Symphony Inc$25,00020%
Vanderbilt University$25,00010%
Cate School$24,20020%
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All grantees of The Edwin W Pauley Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Windward School$105,00070%
Las Madrinas$63,50052%
Bowdoin College$50,00020%
Idaho Dark Sky Alliance Inc$35,5001n/a
Palisades Charter High School$32,00060%
Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences$30,00030%
Palisades High School Booster Club$28,50061%
Sun Valley Summer Symphony Inc$25,00020%
Vanderbilt University$25,00010%
Cate School$24,20020%
Dawg Squad$20,000315%
Carlthorp School$15,00020%
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation$12,50010%
Children's Bureau Foundation$8,0001n/a
United in Harmony$7,50021%
Idaho Conservation League Inc$7,00020%
John Tracy Clinic$6,50030%
Idaho Base Camp Inc$5,00011%
Wilshire Boulevard Temple$5,0001n/a
Children's Hospital Los Angeles$2,50010%
National Forest Foundation$2,50010%
Play for Jade Events Inc$2,0001n/a
McHenry Mansion Foundation$25010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($468k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Edwin W Pauley Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWindward School: $105,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLas Madrinas: $63,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetBowdoin College: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPalisades Charter High School: $32,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCrossroads School for Arts and Sciences: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPalisades High School Booster Club: $28,500 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetSun Valley Summer Symphony Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVanderbilt University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCate School: $24,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDawg Squad: $20,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetCarlthorp School: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUc Santa Barbara Foundation: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited in Harmony: $7,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetIdaho Conservation League Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJohn Tracy Clinic: $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIdaho Base Camp Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Forest Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMcHenry Mansion Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.2% 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 19.

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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.

California Community FoundationCA17.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Wm Keck Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Edwin W Pauley Foundation

How much does The Edwin W Pauley Foundation give?
The Edwin W Pauley Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $181,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Edwin W Pauley Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (40%), Arts & Culture (35%), Health (7%).
Who are The Edwin W Pauley Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Windward School ($105k), Las Madrinas ($64k), Bowdoin College ($50k).
Does The Edwin W Pauley Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Edwin W Pauley Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Edwin W Pauley Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Wm Keck Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles.
Where is The Edwin W Pauley Foundation based?
The Edwin W Pauley Foundation is based in CA.

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 36 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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