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Paz Family Foundation

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.

$996k
Granted FY2024still arriving
46
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$2.1MHealth$1.1MRecreation & Sports$574kArts & Culture$372kCrime & Legal$150kPublic Safety & Disaster$105kHuman Services$65kEnvironment$64kOther$0
02FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $70k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $401k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $525k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST LOUIS$200,000
GATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION$125,000
ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY$100,000
BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$100,000
LOGOS SCHOOL$40,000
BREAKTHROUGH T1D$26,300
ST LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$25,000
TEEN PARENT CONNECTION$25,000
WINTER OPERA SAINT LOUIS$22,500
SHELTER INC$20,000
THE MAGIC HOUSE$20,000
COR JESU ACADEMY$20,000
AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOCIATION MISSOURI$20,000
ST LOUIS AQUARIUM FOUNDATION$15,000
CARDINAL RITTER COLLEGE PREP GALA$15,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $98k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BROOMFIELD FISH: $10k → 5%OMNI YOUTH SERVICES: $8k → 8%BREWING OPPORTUNITIES: $5k → 14%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%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
OH
CA
CO
MO
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 30 repeat orgs$376k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
14

Total granted

$4.3M
$134k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+4%

Still filing today

80%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $242k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalOther
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

  • SL
    ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $600k · revenue +18%
  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL
    6× · 2019–2024 · $400k · revenue +58%
  • LI
    LOGOS INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $274k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • JD
    JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • AO
    ARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUIS
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • JD
    JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
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
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
2
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
3
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
4
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
5
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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6
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

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7
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
8
Columbia College

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

Education
9
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
10
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
11
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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12
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ising Silicon Valley. 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

50 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. 50 of the 74 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
50/50
Grantees still filing
31/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST LOUIS: $910,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST LOUISMISSOURI CURES EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $225,000 · OtherMISSOURI CURES EDUCATION FOUNDATIONTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $75,000 · OtherST LOUIS AQUARIUM AT UNION STATION FOUNDATION: $63,850 · Other+33 more: $539,500 · Other+33 moreST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $600,000 · EducationST LOUIS UNIVERSITYLOGOS INC: $273,800 · EducationLOGOS INC+6 more: $61,000 · Education+6 moreTHE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL: $400,000 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FOR…CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $99,000 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FO…American Heart Association Inc: $50,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Ass…CASA DE SALUD: $50,000 · HealthCASA DE SALUDCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $36,300 · Health+10 more: $80,400 · Health+10 moreGATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION: $570,000 · Recreation & SportsGATEWAY ARCH …SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $150,000 · Arts & CultureWINTER OPERA ST LOUIS: $43,500 · Arts & CultureTHE MAGIC HOUSE: $35,000 · Arts & CultureMISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $27,000 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO BALLET: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF DENVER INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $18,000 · Arts & CultureCONCORDANCE: $150,000 · Crime & LegalSt Louis Police Foundation: $105,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$1,813,350Education$934,800Health$755,700Recreation & Sports$570,000Arts & Culture$298,500Crime & Legal$150,000Public Safety & Disaster$105,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $600,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION: $570,000 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL: $400,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetLOGOS INC: $273,800 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetMISSOURI CURES EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $225,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetCONCORDANCE: $150,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $150,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSt Louis Police Foundation: $105,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $99,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetST LOUIS AQUARIUM AT UNION STATION FOUNDATION: $63,850 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetTEEN PARENT CONNECTION INC: $60,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCASA DE SALUD: $50,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetWINTER OPERA ST LOUIS: $43,500 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $36,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAGIC HOUSE: $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $27,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPALO ALTO PARTNERS IN EDUCATION: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO BALLET: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF DENVER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHIBRRCON NFP: $10,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetMEMORY CARE HOME SOLUTIONS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetINDEPENDENCE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROSPECT RIDGE ACADEMY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICES OF BROOMFIELD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOMNI YOUTH SERVICES INCORPORATED: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPINK RIBBON GOOD INC: $5,900 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKOHL CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF GREATER CHICAGO INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDE LA SALLE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBREWING OPPORTUNITIES NFP DBA GERRYS CAFE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLANE TECH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetColorado Museum of Natural History: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL DISTRICT 12 EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHERS BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISING SILICON VALLEY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBUILDING CHANGES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 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.

  • Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GATEWAY ARCH PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds LOGOS INC ↗
  • Who funds MISSOURI CURES EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CONCORDANCE ↗
  • Who funds SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds St Louis Police Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS AQUARIUM AT UNION STATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TEEN PARENT CONNECTION INC ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds CASA DE SALUD ↗
  • Who funds WINTER OPERA ST LOUIS ↗
  • Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds THE MAGIC HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
  • Who funds MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds PALO ALTO PARTNERS IN EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
  • Who funds SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO BALLET ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF DENVER INC ↗
  • Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK 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.

Edward Jones Foundati…St Louis Community Fo…World Wide Technology…Commerce Bancshares F…Centene FoundationUnited Way of Greater…Employees Community F…The Blackbaud Giving …Stifel Foundation IncBerges Family Foundat…Caleres Cares Charita…Jordan Mary R & Ettie…
Edward Jones FoundationMO25.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Edward Jones Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · World Wide Technology Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Centene Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Stifel Foundation Inc · Berges Family Foundation · Caleres Cares Charitable Trust · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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

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    How do I get to Paz Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Paz Family 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 74 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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