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The Paulea Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$50k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
11%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$8,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 11
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$918k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 11% of the organizations The Paulea Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyOther
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 arriving9$50k0%
FY20239$50k11%
FY20229$50k11%
FY202111$68k36%
FY20208$64k0%
FY201910$77kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$87kHuman Services$59kHealth$53kHousing & Shelter$39kEducation$38kRecreation & Sports$35kYouth Development$30kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Houston Food Bank$55,50060%
Star of Hope Mission$39,00060%
Covenant House Texas$39,00060%
Lifehouse Inc$37,50060%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$37,50060%
Camp Aranzazu Inc$34,50060%
Meals on Wheels$26,00045%
The Montrose Center$10,00020%
Lyc Concours Corporation$10,00021%
Child Advocates Inc$9,00030%
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All grantees of The Paulea Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Houston Food Bank$55,50060%
Star of Hope Mission$39,00060%
Covenant House Texas$39,00060%
Lifehouse Inc$37,50060%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$37,50060%
Camp Aranzazu Inc$34,50060%
Meals on Wheels$26,00045%
The Montrose Center$10,00020%
Lyc Concours Corporation$10,00021%
Child Advocates Inc$9,00030%
Tony's Place$5,00015%
Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston$5,00010%
The Center for Hearing and Speech$5,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($45k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $55,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetStar of Hope Mission: $39,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant House Texas: $39,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLifehouse Inc: $37,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $37,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Aranzazu Inc: $34,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMeals on Wheels: $26,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetThe Montrose Center: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLyc Concours Corporation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetChild Advocates Inc: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTony's Place: $5,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetInterfaith Ministries for Greater Houston: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Hearing and Speech: $5,000 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 13.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA3.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Paulea Family Foundation

How much does The Paulea Family Foundation give?
The Paulea Family Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $50,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 11 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does The Paulea Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (24%), Human Services (16%), Health (15%).
Who are The Paulea Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: The Houston Food Bank ($56k), Star of Hope Mission ($39k), Covenant House Texas ($39k).
Does The Paulea Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Paulea Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Paulea Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Paulea Family Foundation based?
The Paulea Family Foundation is based in TX.

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 16 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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