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Paradis Foundation Inc at a glance

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Paradis Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$177k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% 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
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Cedar Lake Foundation: $5k → 15%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.
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$835k · 28 repeat orgs$255k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
17

Total granted

$835k
$130k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+44%

Still filing today

64%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther
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

  • TH
    TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2021 · $100k · revenue +21%
  • VC
    VIRGINIA CHANCE SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $75k · revenue +44%
  • GC
    GILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $70k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • AO
    ARCHDIOCESE OF LOUISVILLE
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
  • SA
    SPEED ART MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +224%
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
Kentucky Center for Economic Policy Inc

To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.

Public Benefit
2
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
3
Enroll Indy Inc

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,…

Education
4
Christian Academy of Louisville Inc

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.

Education
5
Thomas Jefferson School

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…

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6
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
Kentucky Country Day School Inc

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…

Education
9
Liberty Classical Schools Educational Services Inc

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…

Education
10
Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
11
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
12
The Laurence School

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Education Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 49 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
22/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL INC: $100,000 · OtherTRINITY HIGH SCHOOL INCTRINITY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherTRINITY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATIONVIRGINIA CHANCE SCHOOL INC: $75,000 · OtherVIRGINIA CHANCE SCHOOL INCGILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC: $70,000 · OtherGILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INCSACRED HEART SCHOOLS INC: $65,000 · OtherSACRED HEART SCHOOLS INCHOLY CROSS HIGH SCHOOL: $50,000 · OtherHOLY CROSS HIGH SCHOOLSt Meinrad Archabbey & Seminary: $45,000 · OtherSt Meinrad Archabbey & SeminarySAINT MEINRAD ARCH ABBEY: $30,000 · Other+24 more: $230,000 · Other+24 moreBELLARMINE UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $50,000 · EducationBELLARMINE UNIVERSI…CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 · EducationCATHOLIC EDUCATION …LOUISVILLE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $40,000 · EducationLOUISVILLE COLLEGIA…EDCHOICE KENTUCKY INC: $25,000 · EducationEDCHOICE KENTUCKY I…West End School Inc: $10,000 · EducationHoly Angels Academy: $10,000 · Education+2 more: $9,000 · EducationSTAGEONE FAMILY THEATRE INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureSPEED ART MUSEUM: $12,500 · Arts & CultureCOMMONWEALTH THEATRE CENTER INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMUHAMMAD ALI MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CENTER: $5,000 · Arts & CultureYEW DELL INC: $40,000 · Environment21ST CENTURY PARKS INC: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsThe Food Literacy Project at Oxmoor Farm Inc: $12,500 · Food & NutritionORGANIC ASSOCIATION OF KENTUCKY: $2,500 · Food & NutritionHARBOR HOUSE OF LOUISVILLE INC: $12,500 · Civil Rights
Other$765,000Education$189,000Arts & Culture$42,500Environment$40,000Recreation & Sports$25,000Food & Nutrition$15,000Civil Rights$12,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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 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 THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC ↗
  • Who funds SPEED ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds The Food Literacy Project at Oxmoor Farm Inc ↗
  • Who funds HARBOR HOUSE OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
  • Who funds CREASEY MAHAN NATURE PRESERVE INC ↗
  • Who funds West End School Inc ↗
  • Who funds LEADERSHIP LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Holy Angels Academy ↗
  • Who funds EVOLVE502 INC ↗
  • Who funds MARYHURST INC ↗
  • Who funds CEDAR LAKE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMONWEALTH THEATRE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FRANCIS PARKER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC ↗

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 Foundat…The Community Foundat…The Community Foundat…The Gheens Foundation…Republic Bank Foundat…Lift a Life Foundatio…LG&E and Ku Foundatio…Cralle Foundation IncSnowy Owl Foundation …Norton Healthcare IncKosair Charities Comm…Baird Foundation Inc
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    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.

    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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