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The Pauley Family Foundation

THE PAULEY FAMILY FOUNDATION supports a broad range of charitable purposes in the richmond region, with a focus on education, health, and human services.

$6.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
98
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$449k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Education$37MHealth$8.4MHousing & Shelter$5.3MHuman Services$4.8MInternational$4.2MArts & Culture$2.9MPhilanthropy$2.7MFood & Nutrition$2.6MOther$0
02FY2024 · 98 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k29 grants · $710k
  • $50k–250k67 grants · $5.1M
  • $250k+2 grants · $699k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC$449,269
SPARC$250,000
SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE$200,000
ACTS--AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER IN SERVICE$200,000
ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION$150,000
SACRED HEART CENTER$100,000
PATRICK HENRY SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS$100,000
PROJECTHOMES$100,000
CONEXUS$100,000
YMCA OF GREATER RICHMOND$100,000
MENDING WALLS$100,000
VIRGINIA HOME$100,000
THE VALENTINE$100,000
THE DOORWAYS$100,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND$100,000
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 (FY17–24, $5.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%ACTS--AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER IN SERVICE: $334k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER RICHMOND: $100k → 22%ACTS--AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER IN SERVICE: $250k → 9%ACTS--AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER IN SERVICE: $200k → 9%CIRCLE CENTER ADULT DAY SERVICES: $145k → 9%SENIOR CONNECTIONS CAAA: $50k → 22%AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER IN SERVICE: $75k → 9%SENIOR CONNECTIONS CAAA DBA THE SPAN CENTER: $50k → 22%CIRCLE CENTER ADULT DAY SERVICES: $75k → 9%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $575k → 22%HOMEWARD: $50k → 7%CIRCLE CENTER ADULT DAY SERVICES: $50k → 9%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $550k → 22%CIRCLE CENTER ADULT DAY SERVICES: $50k → 9%VIRGINIA'S KIDS BELONG: $50k → 9%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $100k → 22%CIRCLE CENTER ADULT DAY SERVICES: $50k → 9%CIRCLE CENTER ADULT DAY SERVICES: $50k → 9%SENIOR CONNECTIONS CAAA: $85k → 22%CIRCLE CENTER ADULT DAY SERVICES: $50k → 9%CIRCLE CENTER ADULT DAY SERVICES: $50k → 9%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $50k → 22%ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $100k → 9%ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $75k → 9%ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $75k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 22%ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $75k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 22%NEXTUP RVA: $50k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 22%NEXTUP RVA: $50k → 9%UNITED METHODIST URBAN: $50k → 9%SHALOM FARMS: $50k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 22%SHALOM FARMS: $50k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 22%ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $50k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 22%SHALOM FARMS: $50k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER RICHMOND: $100k → 22%YMCA OF GREATER RICHMOND: $100k → 22%FAMILY LIFELINE: $75k → 22%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN: $75k → 22%FAMILY LIFELINE: $75k → 22%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN: $75k → 22%FAMILY LIFELINE: $75k → 22%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$67M · 91 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

91 repeat relationships: 80 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

91
26

Total granted

$67M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+8%

Still filing today

99%
96%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $775k 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
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • HC
    HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $31M · revenue +76%
  • MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $5.5M · revenue +131%
  • FM
    FEED MORE INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND
    one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue -25%
  • SM
    SCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -32%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -40%
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
Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce

Chamberrva is the trusted voice for modern business in the richmond virginia region. we are change agents, rallying to do the hard things that will create a more connected, prosperous, health and equitable community.

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2
Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities

VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.

Civil Rights
3
Vpm Media Corporation

To use the power of media to educate, entertain and inspire, using public television and public radio to make a positive impact on the communities throughout central virginia, charlottesville, the shenandoah valley, the northern neck and…

Arts & Culture
4
Virginia Community Development Corp

VCDC delivers vital financial resources and support while collaborating with local organizations dedicated to social impact, ensuring the creation of affordable homes in vibrant neighborhoods where everyone can thrive.

Housing & Shelter
5
Greater Richmond Partnership Inc

GRP's mission is to aggressively generate economic opportunities that create quality jobs for residents in the region and increase the tax base for needed community services.

Public Benefit
6
Virginia Community Action Partnership Inc

Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…

Human Services
7
The Commonwealth Institute for

To use policy, research, and analysis to advance the well-being of Virginia communities, and improve the economic security and social opportunities of all Virginians.

Public Benefit
8
Richmond County Partnership for Children Inc

Richmond County Partnership for Children advances a high-quality, accountable system of care and early education for each child beginning with a healthy birth, and supports families to improve early childhood health and development to…

Education
9
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…

Health
10
Vcu Investment Management Company

To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…

Education
11
The Richmond Forum

To present powerful voices so richmond can learn. to empower local voices so richmond can lead.

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12
Community Health Center of Richmond Inc

The organization's mission is to sustain a vibrant, healthy and strong community through affordable, culturally competent, quality primary health care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg; the most unlike its peers is The Agecroft Association. 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

134 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. 134 of the 135 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
133/134
Grantees still filing
91/134
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE: $30,587,530 · EducationHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGEMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION: $5,540,000 · EducationMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATIONSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $1,900,000 · Education+19 more: $4,030,000 · Education+19 moreYWCA RICHMOND: $1,275,000 · Human ServicesYWCA RICH…AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER IN SERVICE: $859,000 · Human ServicesAREA CONG…Circle Center Adult Day Services: $519,531 · Human ServicesCircle Ce…FAMILY LIFELINE: $475,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY LI…ST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $400,000 · Human ServicesST JOSEPH…Jewish Family Services Inc: $400,000 · Human ServicesJewish Fa…Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769): $350,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men…FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN: $225,000 · Human ServicesSHALOM FARMSINC: $225,000 · Human ServicesTHE CAPITAL AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $220,000 · Human Services+12 more: $845,000 · Human Services+12 moreTHE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA FOUNDATION USA INC: $5,077,514 · International+3 more: $180,000 · InternationalBETTER HOUSING COALITION: $1,300,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE MAGGIE WALKER COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $700,000 · Housing & ShelterELDERHOMES CORPORATION: $400,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING FAMILIES FIRST: $275,000 · Housing & ShelterRICHMOND METRO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $200,000 · Housing & ShelterLIBERATION VETERAN SERVICES INC: $180,000 · Housing & ShelterCARITAS: $150,000 · Housing & Shelter+3 more: $180,000 · Housing & ShelterSACRED HEART CENTER INC: $375,000 · OtherTHE NEW COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $370,000 · OtherCHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC: $350,000 · OtherFEED MORE INC: $2,050,000 · OtherFEED MORE INCConexus: $495,000 · OtherTHE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC: $400,000 · OtherRICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE INC: $1,050,000 · OtherRICHMOND ANIMAL …COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND INC: $475,000 · Other+50 more: $4,667,500 · Other+50 moreTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,638,238 · PhilanthropyGREATER RICHMOND FIT4KIDS INC: $175,000 · PhilanthropyPARTNERSHIP FOR THE FUTURE: $125,000 · PhilanthropyTHE RICHMOND SYMPHONY: $800,000 · Arts & CultureThe Byrd Theatre Foundation: $375,000 · Arts & CultureSchool of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community: $350,000 · Arts & CultureTHE VALENTINE MUSEUM: $300,000 · Arts & CultureMONTPELIER FOUNDATION: $165,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE: $100,000 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureMending Walls: $100,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $355,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$42,057,530Human Services$5,793,531International$5,257,514Housing & Shelter$3,385,000Other$10,232,500Philanthropy$2,938,238Arts & Culture$2,645,000

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 budgetHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE: $30,587,530 over 7y, 21% of budgetMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION: $5,540,000 over 8y, 7.2% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA FOUNDATION USA INC: $5,077,514 over 3y, 97% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,638,238 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetFEED MORE INC: $2,050,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $1,900,000 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetBETTER HOUSING COALITION: $1,300,000 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetYWCA RICHMOND: $1,275,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $1,075,000 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetRICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE INC: $1,050,000 over 5y, 25% of budgetAREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER IN SERVICE: $859,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetTHE RICHMOND SYMPHONY: $800,000 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetTHE MAGGIE WALKER COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $700,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetCircle Center Adult Day Services: $519,531 over 8y, 6.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetConexus: $495,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetFAMILY LIFELINE: $475,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND INC: $475,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetELDERHOMES CORPORATION: $400,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetST JOSEPH'S VILLA: $400,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC: $400,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetJewish Family Services Inc: $400,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetSt Andrew's School: $390,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetThe Byrd Theatre Foundation: $375,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetSACRED HEART CENTER INC: $375,000 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetTHE NEW COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $370,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769): $350,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC: $350,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSchool of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community: $350,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetHEALTH BRIGADE: $325,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetSOAR 365: $300,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE VALENTINE MUSEUM: $300,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetHOUSING FAMILIES FIRST: $275,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetJSARGEANT REYNOLDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetHOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF RICHMOND INC: $250,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetVENTURE RICHMOND INC: $250,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetPartnership for Housing Affordability: $250,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CENTER: $250,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetDAILY PLANET INCORPORATED: $250,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN: $225,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL: $225,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHESTERFIELD: $225,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetRichmond Urban Dance Inc: $225,000 over 3y, 45% of budgetThe Virginia Home: $225,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSHALOM FARMSINC: $225,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetTHE CAPITAL AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $220,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetRICHMOND METRO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $200,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetORCHARD HOUSE INC: $200,000 over 5y, 2.5% 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 HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA FOUNDATION USA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
  • Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds BETTER HOUSING COALITION ↗
  • Who funds YWCA RICHMOND ↗
  • Who funds ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RICHMOND ANIMAL LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER IN SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds THE RICHMOND SYMPHONY ↗
  • Who funds THE MAGGIE WALKER COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Circle Center Adult Day Services ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND ↗
  • Who funds Conexus ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY LIFELINE ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND INC ↗
  • Who funds ELDERHOMES CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ST JOSEPH'S VILLA ↗
  • Who funds THE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Family Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds St Andrew's School ↗
  • Who funds The Byrd Theatre Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SACRED HEART CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769) ↗
  • Who funds CHILDSAVERS- MEMORIAL CHILD GUIDANCE CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community ↗
  • Who funds HEALTH BRIGADE ↗
  • Who funds SOAR 365 ↗
  • Who funds THE VALENTINE MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds HOUSING FAMILIES FIRST ↗
  • Who funds JSARGEANT REYNOLDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF RICHMOND INC ↗
  • Who funds VENTURE RICHMOND INC ↗
  • Who funds Partnership for Housing Affordability ↗
  • Who funds ST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds DAILY PLANET INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN ↗

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 Community Foundat…Herndon FoundationRobins FoundationRichmond Memorial Hea…Virginia Nonprofit Ho…The Mary Morton Parso…Dominion Energy Chari…Robert G Cabell III a…Shelton H Short Jr Tr…Tesco FoundationCarmax FoundationThe William H - John …
The Community Foundation IncVA140.2× affinity85 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · Herndon Foundation · Robins Foundation · Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · Tesco Foundation · Carmax Foundation · The William H - John G - Emma Scott Foundation

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 Pauley Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pauley Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    54report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Pauley Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Pauley Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 135 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 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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