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Para Family Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MI
NY
OR
NV
CA
KY
MD
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +106% since the first grant, against -9% for those 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
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.

04Its field

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.

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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Donorschooseorg; 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 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. 12 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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 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 ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Para Family Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Para Family Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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