· Private foundation
The Paulos Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Paulos Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Paulos Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $307k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $283k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DRC SOLUTIONS | $40,000 |
| RECOVERY RESOURCE COUNCIL ON DRUG AND ALCOHOL | $40,000 |
| CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES | $35,000 |
| WESTLAKE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| 29 ACRES | $25,000 |
| ANY BABY CAN | $20,000 |
| DCAC (ART FOR ADVOCACY) | $20,000 |
| HELPING RESTORE ABILITY | $20,000 |
| PATHWAYS TO HOUSING DC | $15,000 |
| CHORUS AUSTIN | $12,500 |
| HOLY TRINITY GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH | $7,500 |
| MENTAL HEALTH PEER SERVICES | $5,000 |
| PROJECT HOPE | $5,000 |
| AUSTIN SPEECH LABS | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $312k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
51 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2023, 38 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DRDAY RESOURCE CENTER FOR HOMELESS7× · 2017–2023 · $320k · revenue +102%
- CFCENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES7× · 2017–2023 · $280k · revenue +316%
- PEPARISH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL6× · 2017–2022 · $160k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- COCARITAS OF AUSTINone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +19%
- MLMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -60%
- WPWOMENS POLICY FORUM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $6k
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.
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.
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Provide financial support to the dallas opera.
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How this is measured
47 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. 47 of the 84 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS (TAX ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds DAY RESOURCE CENTER FOR HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR TRANSFORMING LIVES ↗
- Who funds PARISH EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Helping Restore Ability ↗
- Who funds Center for Public Policy Priorities ↗
- Who funds DALLAS THEATER CENTER ↗
- Who funds DALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DALLAS URBAN DEBATE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds The Dallas Opera ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN STREET CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 29 ACRES INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds LYRIC STAGE INC ↗
- Who funds CHORUS AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN SPEECH LABS INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS TO HOUSING DC ↗
- Who funds TACA INC ↗
- Who funds HOLY TRINITY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds WATERTOWER THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Meadows Foundation Inc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · The Rosewood Foundation · Amon G Carter Foundation · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · The Dallas Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Paulos Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Paulos Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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