· Private foundation
The Paulus Foundation Incorporated
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $15,000 |
| AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA | $15,000 |
| FOOD FOR LANE COUNTY | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OREGON | $10,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OREGON | $10,000 |
| PETA | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 (FY17–24, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
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 +155% since the first grant, against +144% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND8× · 2017–2024 · $170k · revenue +183%- AOAMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC8× · 2018–2025 · $108k · revenue +690%
- FFFOOD FOR LANE COUNTY8× · 2017–2025 · $76k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
- BBBURRITO BRIGADEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +144%
- TETHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEEone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +13%
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.
As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to conservation and environmental protection, junglekeepers is proud to present a description highlighting our charitable activities in the peruvian amazon. our initiatives align with our…
Promote and project socially responsible agriculture in oregon, while working to support independent, family scale farmers and rachers who are ecologically farming in ways that are respectful of land, animals and community.
The oregon humane society ("ohs") is a private animal welfare organization, founded in 1868 and incorporated in 1880, whose mission is to create a more humane society with the vision of a world where all animals are treated with…
The organization's mission is to increase the quantity of high quality food commodities donated to the oregon food bank network through a partnership of farmers, food processors, the oregon food bank network and the public.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
Wildlife alliance is the leader in direct protection of forests and wildlife in tropical asia. our mission is to combat deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, and poverty by partnering with local communities and governments.…
Grace gorillas is an international ngo working hard to provide excellent care and rewild rescued grauers gorillas while working alongside congolese communities to promote the conservation of wild gorillas and their habitat.
Oregon tilth is a leading nonprofit certifier, educator and advocate for sustainable organic agriculture and products since 1974. the organizations mission to make the food system and agriculture biologically sound and socially equitable…
The pongo fund provides high quality pet food and vital veterinary care for those in need including seniors, veterans, the low income, the unemployed, the disabled, the hungry, the hurting, the homeless and good people facing the toughest…
Rescue and rehoming of retrievers and retriever mixes
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 17 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 RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR LANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM FOR GREAT APES INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Oregon Inc ↗
- Who funds CHIMPS INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF OREGON INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA GARCIA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BURRITO BRIGADE ↗
- Who funds THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE ↗
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: United Way of the Columbia-Willamette · The Oregon Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Paulus Foundation Incorporated funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Paulus Foundation Incorporated. Bigger dots raise more.
- Raphael House of Portland: 10% of income from government
- Food for Lane County: 5% of income from government
- Oregon Public Broadcasting: 1% of income from government
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