The Pauley Family Foundation

Analysis

The Pauley Family Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Richmond, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1993, 33 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, The Pauley Family Foundation reported income of $57.9m and spending of $7.5m, leaving 87% of income unspent that year. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income grew from $4.6m to $57.9m (+1145%), an average of +66% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 11654%. Over the whole period it spent 3.0% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, The Pauley Family Foundation sits at the 99th percentile: it is larger than about 99% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 99th percentile, and in the 99th percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include One Tree Planted Inc ($57.6m), Joyful Noise Charitable Foundation ($58.3m) and United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc ($57.6m).

At year end it held assets of $2.14bn against liabilities of $20k, net assets of $2.14bn.