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Paramitas Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

72% of Paramitas Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 8 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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10
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’19
12
’20
11
’21
8
’22
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’23
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’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$11MScience & Tech$4.4MHealth$2.2MInternational$269kFood & Nutrition$105kReligion$90kYouth Development$87kHuman Services$55kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.0M
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$1,470,000
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$500,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$150,000
University of Washington Foundation$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI$20,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
TREEHOUSE FOR KIDS$10,000
NORTHWEST HARVEST$10,000
GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP$8,000
YUN LIN TEMPLE$3,000
FORMOSAN ASSOCIATION FOR PUBLIC AFF$3,000
WATER FIRST INTERNATIONAL$3,000
HARVARD MAGAZINE$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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%DANA FABER CANCER INSTITUTE: $1.0M → 7%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $1.0M → 8%HARKER SCHOOL: $170k → 8%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $500k → 7%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $1.0M → 8%HARKER SCHOOL: $170k → 8%DANA FABER CANCER INSTITUTE: $304k → 7%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $1.0M → 8%HARKER SCHOOL: $150k → 8%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $150k → 17%DANA FABER CANCER INSTITUTE: $300k → 7%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $870k → 8%HARKER SCHOOL: $85k → 8%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $150k → 17%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $505k → 8%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $150k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $100k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $100k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $100k → 17%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $50k → 17%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $1.8M → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $1.6M → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $1.5M → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $1.2M → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $520k → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $500k → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $346k → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $303k → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $218k → 8%SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY: $40k → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $204k → 8%SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY: $40k → 8%STANDFORD UNIVERSITY: $175k → 8%SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY: $40k → 8%STANDFORD UNIVERSITY: $60k → 8%SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY: $40k → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $50k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%TZU CHI FOUNDATION: $40k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%TZU CHI FOUNDATION: $40k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%University of Washington Foundation: $50k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%University of Washington Foundation: $50k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%University of Washington Foundation: $50k → 9%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
NY
MA
CA
MO
DC
HI
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 20 repeat orgs$573k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
11

Total granted

$3.8M
$63k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+46%

Still filing today

60%
9%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $510k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CultureReligionPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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
    THE HARKER SCHOOL
    6× · 2017–2024 · $615k · revenue +38%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $450k · revenue +46%
  • PO
    PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE
    5× · 2017–2022 · $190k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • ST
    SENIOR TAIWANESE ASSOCIATION OF CA
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • TA
    Taiwanese American Federation of No
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • TE
    TIANMU EDUCATION FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +46%
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
3
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
4
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
5
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
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The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
11
University of Hartford

Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.

Education
12
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York; the most unlike its peers is Tianmu Education Foundation. 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

17 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. 17 of the 36 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $8,469,335 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITYPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $4,398,180 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $810,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORKTHE HARKER SCHOOL: $615,000 · Education+4 more: $741,000 · EducationDANA FABER CANCER INSTITUTE: $1,665,481 · OtherDANA FABER CA…UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI: $111,000 · OtherTREEHOUSE FOR KIDS: $102,500 · OtherNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $102,500 · Other+16 more: $213,557 · Other+16 moreDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $500,000 · HealthGLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS: $82,000 · Health+1 more: $13,000 · HealthBUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION: $130,000 · ReligionWATER FIRST INTERNATIONAL: $26,500 · PhilanthropyFormosan Association for Public Affairs: $14,500 · Youth DevelopmentTIANMU EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureHARVARD MAGAZINE INC: $1,040 · Arts & Culture
Education$15,033,515Other$2,195,038Health$595,000Religion$130,000Philanthropy$26,500Youth Development$14,500Arts & Culture$11,040

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 budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $8,469,335 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $4,398,180 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $810,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HARKER SCHOOL: $615,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $450,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $190,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $102,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS: $82,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLAKESIDE SCHOOL: $76,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWATER FIRST INTERNATIONAL: $26,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFormosan Association for Public Affairs: $14,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGO2 For Lung Cancer: $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTIANMU EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetHARVARD MAGAZINE INC: $1,040 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds THE HARKER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS ↗
  • Who funds LAKESIDE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WATER FIRST INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Formosan Association for Public Affairs ↗
  • Who funds GO2 For Lung Cancer ↗
  • Who funds TIANMU EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HARVARD MAGAZINE 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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY11.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Paramitas Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paramitas Foundation. 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%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of 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 · 0–20%
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 Paramitas Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Paramitas 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 36 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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The unnamed billions
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home