· Private foundation
Paro Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $82k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KING-BRUWAERT HOUSE | $50,000 |
| GUADALUPE CENTER | $30,250 |
| WELLNESS HOUSE | $30,000 |
| CLARENDON HILLS INFANT WELFARE | $11,000 |
| OPERATION ACCESS | $11,000 |
| WALKER SCHOOL PTO | $7,500 |
| FUN TIME EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY | $5,200 |
| THE LEAGUE CLUB | $5,000 |
| DOCTOR VEGETABLE | $5,000 |
| SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGE ILLINOIS | $5,000 |
| EAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| PRITZKER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| FUND RECOVERY | $1,000 |
| ACCESS INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $198k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- WHWellness House5× · 2020–2024 · $102k · revenue +31%
- GCGuadalupe Center Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $98k · revenue +50%
- KHKING-BRUWAERT HOUSE6× · 2019–2024 · $72k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- BTBy The Hand Club For Kidsone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -28%
- CFCHAMPIONS FOR LEARNINGone grant, 2023 · $9k
- HFHCS FAMILY SERVICESgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +37%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.
Our mission is to strengthen and heal families and individuals from all walks of life through clinical service, education and research.
To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
People inc. provides health and human services that enrich lives and communities through innovation and supportive services. with a goal to help people achieve greater independence and quality of life, people inc. provides day,…
Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Chicago family health center will promote health, work to prevent disease and provide treatment through the delivery of quality, accessible primary healtcare that is culturally sensitive, affordable, and responsive to community and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ucan and the most unlike its peers is The Life You Can Save. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 47 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Wellness House ↗
- Who funds Guadalupe Center Inc ↗
- Who funds KING-BRUWAERT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Ambulatory Surgery Access Coalition ↗
- Who funds ONE FAMILY ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds By The Hand Club For Kids ↗
- Who funds The League Club Inc ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds The Life You Can Save ↗
- Who funds EAT LEARN PLAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Fun Time Early Childhood Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds HIGHER GROUND USA INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION DEPLOYED INC ↗
- Who funds HCS FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Janyaa ↗
- Who funds Access Institute for Psychological Services ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds FUND RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago ↗
- Who funds GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Partnership for a Healthier America Inc ↗
- Who funds UCAN ↗
- Who funds Hospital De La Familia Foundation ↗
- Who funds Safer Foundation ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Dupage Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Paro Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Gulfshore Playhouse Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Guadalupe Center Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.