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Paradis Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$177k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 19
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$3.6M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Paradis Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsCivil RightsPublic BenefitHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving11$177k36%
FY202312$131k33%
FY202213$135k15%
FY202114$135k36%
FY202017$132k29%
FY201915$115k20%
FY201819$135k42%
FY201718$130kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$642kReligion$110kHealth$77kEnvironment$60kArts & Culture$43kHuman Services$32kRecreation & Sports$25kYouth Development$24kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Trinity High School Inc$100,0001n/a
Trinity High School Foundation$100,00040%
Virginia Chance School Inc$75,00041%
Gilda's Club Kentuckiana Inc$70,00051%
Sacred Heart Schools Inc$65,0007n/a
Bellarmine University Incorporated$50,00070%
Holy Cross High School$50,0003n/a
Catholic Education Foundation Inc$45,00031%
Yew Dell Inc$40,00050%
Louisville Collegiate School$40,00040%
Show all 36 grantees
All grantees of Paradis Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Trinity High School Inc$100,0001n/a
Trinity High School Foundation$100,00040%
Virginia Chance School Inc$75,00041%
Gilda's Club Kentuckiana Inc$70,00051%
Sacred Heart Schools Inc$65,0007n/a
Bellarmine University Incorporated$50,00070%
Holy Cross High School$50,0003n/a
Catholic Education Foundation Inc$45,00031%
Yew Dell Inc$40,00050%
Louisville Collegiate School$40,00040%
Saint Meinrad Arch Abbey$30,0002n/a
Assumption High School Inc$25,0003n/a
Edchoice Kentucky Inc$25,000211%
21st Century Parks Inc$25,00050%
Stageone Family Theatre Inc$20,00031%
St Joseph Catholic Orphan Society$20,0003n/a
The Boys & Girls Clubs Inc$12,50050%
Speed Art Museum$12,50010%
The Food Literacy Project at Oxmoor Farm Inc$12,50031%
Harbor House of Louisville Inc$12,50050%
Creasey Mahan Nature Preserve Inc$12,00021%
West End School Inc$10,00010%
Leadership Louisville Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Holy Angels Academy$10,00011%
Evolve502 Inc$8,00020%
Maryhurst Inc$6,00030%
Cedar Lake Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Commonwealth Theatre Center Inc$5,00010%
Francis Parker School$5,00010%
The Center for Women and Families Inc$5,00020%
Muhammad Ali Museum and Education Center$5,00010%
Treeslouisville Inc$5,0001n/a
Visually Imparied Preschool Services Inc$5,0001n/a
Spalding University Inc$4,00020%
Organic Association of Kentucky$2,50010%
The Morton Center Inc$2,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($160k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Paradis Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTrinity High School Foundation: $100,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetVirginia Chance School Inc: $75,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetGilda's Club Kentuckiana Inc: $70,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetBellarmine University Incorporated: $50,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Education Foundation Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetYew Dell Inc: $40,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLouisville Collegiate School: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEdchoice Kentucky Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 11% of budget21st Century Parks Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetStageone Family Theatre Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetThe Boys & Girls Clubs Inc: $12,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSpeed Art Museum: $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Food Literacy Project at Oxmoor Farm Inc: $12,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetHarbor House of Louisville Inc: $12,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCreasey Mahan Nature Preserve Inc: $12,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWest End School Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLeadership Louisville Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHoly Angels Academy: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEvolve502 Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMaryhurst Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCedar Lake Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommonwealth Theatre Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFrancis Parker School: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Women and Families Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMuhammad Ali Museum and Education Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSpalding University Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOrganic Association of Kentucky: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Morton Center Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundation of Louisville IncKY57.5× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Paradis Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Paradis 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.

About Paradis Foundation Inc

How much does Paradis Foundation Inc give?
Paradis Foundation Inc reported 11 grants totaling $176,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Paradis Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (59%), Religion (10%), Health (7%).
Who are Paradis Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Trinity High School Inc ($100k), Trinity High School Foundation ($100k), Virginia Chance School Inc ($75k).
Does Paradis Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Paradis Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Paradis Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc.
Where is Paradis Foundation Inc based?
Paradis Foundation Inc is based in KY.

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 49 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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