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Para Family Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$6k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172023.

Religion$66kYouth Development$26kEducation$17kHuman Services$13kRecreation & Sports$8kHousing & Shelter$6kArts & Culture$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kOther$0
02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$500
Median grant
3
States reached
$85k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE REACH PROJECT$5,000
ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN MARTIAL ARTS INSTRU$500
MORTON ARBORETUM$500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 90% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%LEUKEMIA LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $250 → 9%DONORS CHOOSE: $500 → 17%EQUIPPING THE SAINTS: $2k → 13%VAN WEZEL FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%LAKE MICHIGAN COLLLEGE FOUNDATION: $15k → 15%NATIONAL WOMEN'S MARTIAL ARTS FEDER: $1k → 8%PEACE LOVE BRACELETS FOUNDATION: $7k → 13%ALL AMERICAN CLASS: $785 → 18%COSTCO FOUNDATION: $120 → 9%FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES: $6k → 7%GIVE ME A CHANCE FOUNDATION: $7k → 7%WEST SUBURBAN TACTICAL OFFICER ASSO: $500 → 14%JEFF RUSSELL AMAZING BLAZE DISASTER: $3k → 13%COSTCO FOUNDATION: $120 → 9%COLLEGE OF DUPAGE: $1k → 7%GIVE ME A CHANCE FOUNDATION: $7k → 7%MISERICORDIA: $30k → 14%BRIDGE COMMUNITIES: $900 → 7%GIVE ME A CHANCE FOUNDATION: $6k → 7%MISERICORDIA: $17k → 14%CENACLE RETREAT CENTER: $1k → 7%GIVE ME A CHANCE FOUNDATION: $6k → 7%MISERICORDIA: $15k → 14%CENACLE RETREAT CENTER: $300 → 7%RIALTO SQUARE THEATER FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%CENACLE RETREAT CENTER: $295 → 7%CENACLE RETREAT CENTER: $210 → 7%MORTON ARBORETUM: $500 → 7%MORTON ARBORETUM: $500 → 7%MORTON ARBORETUM: $500 → 7%MORTON ARBORETUM: $500 → 7%MORTON ARBORETUM: $500 → 7%WOODRIDGE PARK DISTRICT: $1k → 7%WOODRIDGE PARK DISTRICT: $587 → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$100k · 8 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +106% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
15

Total granted

$100k
$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+106%
-9%

Still filing today

38%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Recreation & SportsHousing & ShelterHealthEnvironmentEducationArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • GM
    GIVE ME A CHANCE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2022 · $26k · revenue +106%
  • TM
    THE MORTON ARBORETUM
    5× · 2017–2023 · $3k · revenue +26%
  • TC
    The Costco Foundation
    2× · 2018–2019 · $240 · revenue +203%

Funded once

  • LM
    LAKE MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -22%
  • PL
    PEACE LOVE BRACELETS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $7k
  • FH
    FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES
    one grant, 2018 · $6k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Arca Foundation
2
Md Anderson Foundation
Philanthropy
3
The Moca Foundation
Philanthropy
4
At&T Foundation
Education
5
Whole Foods Market Foundation
Community Improvement
6
Lung Cancer Research Foundation

The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.

Health
7
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
8
The Sarah Min and Matt Pincus Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
10
Gates Foundation Trust
Philanthropy
11
Gates Foundation
Philanthropy
12
The Starbucks Foundation
Unclassified

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Donorschooseorg and the most unlike its peers is The Costco Foundation. 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

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MISERICORDIA — $62,100 · OtherMISERICORDIALAKE MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $15,000 · OtherLAKE MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATIONPEACE LOVE BRACELETS FOUNDATION — $7,472 · OtherPEACE LOVE BRACELETS FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient — $5,600 · OtherFAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES — $5,500 · Other+9 more — $14,831 · Other+9 moreGIVE ME A CHANCE FOUNDATION — $25,500 · Recreation & SportsGIVE ME A CHANCE FOU…National Womens Martial Arts Federation — $1,178 · Recreation & SportsThe Reach Project — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC — $900 · Housing & ShelterTHE MORTON ARBORETUM — $2,500 · EnvironmentRIALTO SQUARE THEATRE FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Arts & CultureDONORSCHOOSEORG — $500 · EducationBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $250 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $164 · HealthThe Costco Foundation — $240 · Philanthropy
Other$110,503Recreation & Sports$26,678Housing & Shelter$5,900Environment$2,500Arts & Culture$1,000Education$500Health$414Philanthropy$240

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGIVE ME A CHANCE FOUNDATION — $25,500 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetLAKE MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Reach Project — $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE MORTON ARBORETUM — $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNational Womens Martial Arts Federation — $1,178 over 1y, 10% of budgetRIALTO SQUARE THEATRE FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC — $900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $164 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds GIVE ME A CHANCE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds LAKE MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds The Reach Project
  • Who funds SARASOTA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE MORTON ARBORETUM
  • Who funds National Womens Martial Arts Federation
  • Who funds RIALTO SQUARE THEATRE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BRIDGE COMMUNITIES INC
  • Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
  • Who funds The Costco Foundation
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Para Family Charitable Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Para Family Charitable Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Para Family Charitable Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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