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Paradise Charity Group at a glance

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Paradise Charity Group

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$27k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Human Services$126kInternational$29kHousing & Shelter$4kEducation$3kYouth Development$2kPhilanthropy$1kRecreation & Sports$606Health$200Other$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$24,525
Median grant
2
States reached
$180k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CORAZON DE VIDA FOUNDATION$24,525
UNICEF$2,096
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CORAZON DE VIDA FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: $101 → 14%CHILD FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%CORAZON DE VIDA FOUNDATION: $22k → 10%CORAZON DE VIDA FOUNDATION: $22k → 10%CORAZON DE VIDA FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%LOS ANGELES CHILDREN'S CHARITY GROUP: $2k → 14%CORAZON DE VIDA FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%CORAZON DE VIDA FOUNDATION: $11k → 10%LOS ANGELES CHILDREN'S CHARITY GROUP: $400 → 14%CORAZON DE VIDA FOUNDATION: $9k → 10%CORAZON DE VIDA FOUNDATION: $6k → 10%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $2k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $513 → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $500 → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $500 → 14%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
MI
NY
OR
CA
VA
NC
DC
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Paradise Charity Group’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 87% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 82%.

Paradise Charity Grouplessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.9% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$146k · 9 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
10

Total granted

$146k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-6%
+13%

Still filing today

67%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Human ServicesInternationalEducationOther
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

  • CD
    CORAZON DE VIDA FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $124k · revenue +67%
  • THE MIDNIGHT MISSION
    4× · 2018–2022 · $4k · revenue +21%
  • CH
    CALABASAS HIGH SCHOOL COYOTE CLUB
    2× · 2020–2021 · $606 · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • CF
    Child Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +39%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • BC
    BAHMAN CHARITY
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
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
Childfund International Usa

Childfund's mission is to help deprived, excluded and vulnerable children have the capacity to become young adults, parents and leaders who bring lasting and positive change to their communities, and to promote societies whose individuals…

International
2
Children's Fund

To promote the health, education, and well-being of children in other nations and the usa. this is accomplished through relief & education programs,

International
3
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
4
Muslim Aid America

Provide help to people who are victims of natural disasters or conflicts or suffering from poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, discrimination, homelessness, debt, unemployment, injustice, or lack of skills or economic opportunity.

Public Safety & Disaster
5
World Forgotten Children Foundation
Philanthropy
6
World Hunger Fund

Poverty Reduction, Humanitarian Assistance

International
7
Forafrika Usa

To provide emergency response, food security, nutrition, water and sanitation, health, education, agricultural and economic development to vulnerable communities in africa in dignified and sustainable ways.

Religion
8
Childlife Foundation America I

To provide critical medical services and treatment free for infants & children regardless of race and religion

Philanthropy
9
Charity Global Inc

Charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe water to people around the world. continued on schedule o.

Human Services
10
Islamic Relief Usa

Islamic relief usa provides relief and development in a dignified manner regardless of gender, race, or religion, and works to empower individuals in their communities and give them a voice in the world.

International
11
Watches for Good Inc

Transparency is key: we believe spent contributions should be accounted for in this non-profit and thats exactly why we pledge to share our financials for every effort. you, our loyal patrons, will have transparency into how our funds are…

Philanthropy
12
World Orphan Foundation Inc

World Orphan Foundation delivers Health, Education, and Emergency aid to children in the remote, hard-to-reach regions in Afghanistan, in a dignified and sustainable manner.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the World Food Program Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Midnight Mission. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CORAZON DE VIDA FOUNDATION: $123,788 · Human ServicesCORAZON DE VIDA FOUNDATIONChild Foundation: $10,000 · Human ServicesChild Foundation+4 more: $7,375 · Human ServicesSURROUND SOUND LOVE INC: $5,375 · OtherSURROUND …Individual grant recipient: $3,025 · OtherIndividua…THE ORPHANAGE MENTOR INC: $2,150 · OtherTHE ORPHA…BAHMAN CHARITY: $1,000 · OtherBAHMAN CH…CALABASAS HIGH SCHOOL COYOTE CLUB: $606 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $500 · Other+4 more: $756 · Other+4 moreCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $4,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $3,783 · International+1 more: $90 · InternationalA MORE BALANCED WORLD INC: $3,021 · Education
Human Services$141,163Other$13,412Philanthropy$4,500International$3,873Education$3,021

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 budgetCORAZON DE VIDA FOUNDATION: $123,788 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetChild Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $3,783 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $3,624 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES CHILDREN'S CHARITY GROUP: $2,050 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetNOROOZ FOUNDATION INC: $1,600 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCALABASAS HIGH SCHOOL COYOTE CLUB: $606 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $101 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $90 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Paradise Charity Group funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paradise Charity Group. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 20 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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