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The Edwin W Pauley Foundation at a glance

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The Edwin W Pauley Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$182k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% 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
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $114k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHATHAM BAROQUETHE ICE HOUSE$50,000
IDAHO DARK SKY ALLIANCE$35,500
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$25,000
LAS MADRINAS$15,000
HARVARD UNIVERSITY$15,000
SUN VALLEYSUMMER PROGRAM$12,500
PALISADES CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL$11,000
PALISADES HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB$7,500
DAWG SQUAD$5,000
WINDWARD SCHOOL$5,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNITED IN HARMONY: $3k → 14%JOHN TRACY CLINIC: $3k → 14%JOHN TRACY CLINIC: $2k → 14%JOHN TRACY CLINIC: $2k → 14%UNITED IN HARMONY: $5k → 14%CHILDREN'S BUREAU FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$839k · 16 repeat orgs$141k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
14

Total granted

$839k
$81k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+291%

Still filing today

81%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthArts & CultureAnimalsOther
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

  • WS
    WINDWARD SCHOOL
    7× · 2018–2025 · $105k · revenue +81%
  • LM
    LAS MADRINAS
    5× · 2019–2025 · $64k · revenue +22%
  • BC
    Bowdoin College
    2× · 2021–2022 · $50k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • UR
    UC REGENTS OF UCSB
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue +315%
  • CB
    CHILDREN'S BUREAU FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $8k
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
The Seven Hills School

The institution provides educational instruction and activities to students ranging from preschool through 8th grade.

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2
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
The Chandler School

Chandler's mission is to provide each student with the highest quality and most academically challenging education in a nurturing, balanced and diverse environment. chandler strives to have its students gain a love of learning, a means of…

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5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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7
University of La Verne

The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…

Education
8
Sage Hill School

We inspire in our students a love of knowledge and the ability to use that knowledge creatively, compassionately and courageously throughout their lives.sage hill school's commitment to academic excellence and our outstanding college…

Education
9
Flintridge Preparatory School

Learning with purpose in a diverse and nurturing community, flintridge prep students thrive in adolescence and grow as curious scholars, creative thinkers , empathetic leaders, and global citizens.

Education
10
Berkeley Hall School Foundation

Our mission is to "empower children to fulfill their unlimited, god-given potential as fearless scholars and conscientious citizens."

Education
11
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
12
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uc Santa Barbara Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Dawg Squad. 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

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 36 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
19/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHATHAM BAROQUETHE ICE HOUSE: $325,000 · OtherCHATHAM BAROQUETHE ICE HOUSESUN VALLEYSUMMER PROGRAM: $70,000 · OtherSUN VALLEYSUMMER PROGRAMLAS MADRINAS: $63,500 · OtherLAS MADRINASIDAHO DARK SKY ALLIANCE INC: $35,500 · OtherIDAHO DARK SKY ALLIANCE INCWESTERN LOS ANGELES CITY COUNCIL BSA: $30,000 · OtherUC REGENTS OF UCSB: $25,000 · Other+11 more: $37,250 · Other+11 moreWINDWARD SCHOOL: $105,000 · EducationWINDWARD SCHOOLBowdoin College: $50,000 · EducationBowdoin CollegePALISADES CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL: $32,000 · EducationPALISADES CHARTER HIGH SCHOOLPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $30,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeCROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES: $30,000 · EducationCROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCESPALISADES HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB: $28,500 · EducationPALISADES HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUBUCLA FOUNDATION: $28,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONVanderbilt University: $25,000 · EducationVanderbilt UniversityCATE SCHOOL: $24,200 · EducationCATE SCHOOLCARLTHORP SCHOOL: $15,000 · Education+2 more: $17,500 · EducationSUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S BUREAU FOUNDATION: $8,000 · Human ServicesUNITED IN HARMONY: $7,500 · Human ServicesJOHN TRACY CLINIC: $6,500 · Human ServicesDawg Squad: $20,000 · AnimalsIDAHO BASE CAMP INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $2,500 · Philanthropy
Other$586,250Education$385,200Arts & Culture$25,000Human Services$22,000Animals$20,000Environment$5,000Philanthropy$2,500

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 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 budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $30,000 over 2y, 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 budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $28,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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 WINDWARD SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds LAS MADRINAS ↗
  • Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
  • Who funds PALISADES CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds PALISADES HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds CATE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Dawg Squad ↗
  • Who funds CARLTHORP SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED IN HARMONY ↗
  • Who funds IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHN TRACY CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds IDAHO BASE CAMP INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MCHENRY MANSION FOUNDATION ↗

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 …Wm Keck FoundationJewish Community Foun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 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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