Founded in the mid 1980's, The Pauls Foundation helps to fund arts organizations, with a concentration of funding provided to the fine arts. The foundation likes to concentrate its efforts on organizations in the Midwestern United States. However, the foundation will accept grant requests from organizations in other areas and decide on funding individually. The Foundation also underwrites traditional grand opera programming throughout the world.

The Pauls Foundation is dedicated to providing monetary support to those not-for-profit organizations where such funding makes a marked difference in the organization’s ability to offer programming.