· Private foundation
Paradis Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| HOLY ANGELS ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| ST JOSEPH CHILDREN'S HOME | $10,000 |
| WEST END SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ST MEINRAD ARCHABBEY | $10,000 |
| BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| YEW DELL INC | $10,000 |
| SACRED HEART SCHOOLS | $5,000 |
| FRANCIS PARKER SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| EVOLVE502 INC | $4,000 |
| HARBOR HOUSE OF LOUISVILLE INC | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
28 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- THTRINITY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2021 · $100k · revenue +21%
- VCVIRGINIA CHANCE SCHOOL INC4× · 2017–2022 · $75k · revenue +44%
- GCGILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC5× · 2018–2022 · $70k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- AOARCHDIOCESE OF LOUISVILLEone grant, 2023 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $15k
- SASPEED ART MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +128%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…
The mission of christian academy school system is to develop students with a heart for god who grow as jesus did in wisdom, stature, and in favor with god and men.
Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Kentucky country day school challenges its students to achieve their highest level of academic excellence and to grow into honorable men and women of confidence and integrity. we inspire personal growth through a diverse community and…
To form, organize, operate, and support k through 12 charter schools that develop students in mind and character through a classical, content-rich cirriculum that emphasizes the principles of virtuous living, traditional learning, and…
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Laurence endeavors to develop the unique abilities and potential of each of its students in a diverse, inclusive and supportive learning community, where rich traditions and an innovative curriculum foster educational excellence and joy in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Education Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is West End School Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 49 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA CHANCE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC ↗
- Who funds BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YEW DELL INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EDCHOICE KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds 21ST CENTURY PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds STAGEONE FAMILY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HOUSE OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds The Food Literacy Project at Oxmoor Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC ↗
- Who funds SPEED ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CREASEY MAHAN NATURE PRESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Holy Angels Academy ↗
- Who funds West End School Inc ↗
- Who funds EVOLVE502 INC ↗
- Who funds MARYHURST INC ↗
- Who funds CEDAR LAKE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds MUHAMMAD ALI MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CENTER ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · Lift a Life Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · Norton Healthcare Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · Baird Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Paradis 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.
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.
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