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Paraklete Foundation at a glance

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Paraklete Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$49k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

International$94kEnvironment$35kYouth Development$21kReligion$20kEducation$17kHealth$13kCrime & Legal$9kHuman Services$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$6,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$692k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Child Hope International$9,720
Individual grant recipient$6,000
The Gem Foundation$6,000
Go On The Mission$6,000
East Africa Village Outreach$5,810
Asia Leadership Development$5,000
Oaks of Righteousness$5,000
The Mom Community$5,000
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 (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%The Mom Community: $5k → 13%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
CA
MO
AZ
AL
GA
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 10% of Paraklete Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 67% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 49%.

Paraklete Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 31% 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.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$87k · 3 repeat orgs$133k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
16

Total granted

$87k
$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+18%

Still filing today

100%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionCrime & LegalInternationalPhilanthropyArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther
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

  • EA
    East African Village Outreach
    5× · 2019–2025 · $54k · revenue -26% · 27% of their budget
  • CH
    Child Hope International
    3× · 2019–2025 · $24k · revenue +13%
  • SP
    SERVANT PARTNERS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
  • IL
    I Live Again Ugaanda
    one grant, 2024 · $12k
  • SF
    San Francisco Siti Impact
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
Network Beyond

Network Beyond is a Christian organization serving vulnerable and under-resourced people. We focus on three areas: 1. Leadership development - equipping global leaders with biblically based training. 2. Compassion and justice - support for…

Crime & Legal
2
Pearl Ministries Inc

Pearl Ministries partners with individuals, families, and churches to help orphans and vulnerable children in Uganda, the Pearl of Africa, through gospel centered, holistic development of family and community in partnership with indigenous…

Religion
3
Abbas House
Philanthropy
4
Gospel Systems

Gospel Systems Inc. organizes and facilitates programs for developing and supporting leaders in Haiti and Southeast Asia, and establishes programs for the care of the poor and vulnerable through indigenous organizations.

International
5
Global Orphan Relief

To provide loving support for orphaned children, fostering a greater capacity for physical, spiritual, and emotional healing and growth, and deploying the local church to do the same.

—
6
Global Effect Ministries

Global Effect Ministries teaches principles to build healthy families and strong marriages in developing nations. We care for orphans, widows, and people in need by developing nationals, empower impoverished individuals to find ways to…

International
7
Empowering Lives International

Empowering Lives International (ELI) ignites world changers. We equip families and orphans to crush poverty, embrace Christ, and share their transformation with others through their God-honoring income, their deepening relationship with…

Religion
8
Project New Hope International

Publicly supported evangelical organization focused on community transformation and empowerment of impoverished neighborhoods in South America and around the world. Missionaries work with community leaders assisting them in various mission…

—
9
Heart Bridge International

Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…

Religion
10
Gateway 2 Missions

Our mission is to effect change in ways that will impact nearly every aspect of poverty.

—
11
Zoe Empowers

Zoe Empowers is a global network of local organizations throughout Africa and India providing a replicable and scalable framework whereby youth led or resourced families are provided the training, resources, and community support to become…

International
12
The Orphans Hands Inc

The Orphan's Hands provides a safe home and education for orphaned youth at risk of being trafficked in high-risk countries while bringing the love and hope of Jesus.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Servant Partners Inc; the most unlike its peers is Asia Leadership Development Network. 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

14 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. 14 of the 25 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientI Live Again Ugaanda: $12,000 · OtherI Live Again UgaandaSan Francisco Siti Impact: $10,000 · OtherSan Francisco Siti ImpactIndividual grant recipient: $6,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAGUA VIVA: $5,400 · OtherAGUA VIVAIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherAwakening Church of God: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $4,850 · OtherMom Community Inc: $5,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $5,000 · Other+4 more: $6,942 · Other+4 moreEast African Village Outreach: $53,710 · PhilanthropyEast African Village Outrea…Child Hope International: $23,520 · Arts & CultureChild Hope I…Go On the Mission: $6,000 · ReligionHOPE HORIZON EAST PALO ALTO: $5,000 · ReligionRURAL COMPASSION: $2,500 · ReligionTHE GEM FOUNDATION: $6,000 · InternationalASIA LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT NETWORK: $5,000 · InternationalSERVANT PARTNERS INC: $10,000 · Public BenefitOAKS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS: $5,000 · Crime & LegalCITY IMPACT INC: $3,650 · Crime & Legal
Other$100,192Philanthropy$53,710Arts & Culture$23,520Religion$13,500International$11,000Public Benefit$10,000Crime & Legal$8,650

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEast African Village Outreach: $53,710 over 5y, 27% of budgetChild Hope International: $23,520 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetSERVANT PARTNERS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGo On the Mission: $6,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHOPE HORIZON EAST PALO ALTO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOAKS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLOS ANGELES CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCITY IMPACT INC: $3,650 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRURAL COMPASSION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetShepherds Gate: $1,512 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCasa Serena: $1,380 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Natl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA10.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%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
    0get no government money at all
    2report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Paraklete Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Paraklete Foundation 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 25 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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