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The Paladin 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.

$116k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$75kYouth Development$50kHuman Services$43kEnvironment$30kHealth$26kInternational$20k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HONNOLD FOUNDATION$30,000
BELIEVE BEYOND ABILITY$26,000
LIFE IMPACT INTERNATIONAL$20,000
ACTIVATE FOOD ARIZONA$20,000
ELEVATE PHOENIX$20,000
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 (FY21–21, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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%BEAUTY FROM ASHES RANCH: $30k → 15%MEMPHIS ROX: $13k → 17%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.
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 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
Pro-Choice Arizona

Pro-Choice Arizona centers abolition and reproductive justice values to prioritize community needs. We advance reproductive equity, pregnancy and family justice, and abortion access for all folks living in Arizona through direct service…

Health
2
One Arizona

One arizonas mission is to increase civic participation among arizonans

Civil Rights
3
Harvest Bridge

Harvest Bridge equips South Asian Christians to serve their communities more effectively. With our assistance, people and communities in South Asia are transformed by the love of Christ.

Religion
4
Family Promise - Salt Lake

We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.

Housing & Shelter
5
Agape Adoption Agency of Arizona Inc

Agape Adoption Agency of Arizona, Inc is a Christian adoption and family service agency with services and programs which promote life, love, and healing.

Human Services
6
Sozo International Inc

Sozo International partners with at-risk families to create a sustainable future and transformed lives through education, health, and economic initiatives.

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7
Arizona Wins

Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…

Civil Rights
8
Redemption Ridge

Redemption Ridge is dedicated to bringing hope and healing to young girls rescued from the horrendous world of sex trafficking. We are committed to redeeming lives, restoring dignity and placing purpose in hearts of these precious children.

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9
Elevate Pregnancy and Family Resource Center

The Organization is a Christian nonprofit organization that empowers and equips those experiencing unintended or crisis pregnancies, as well as youth and families, by providing education, mentoring and support.

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10
Freed Life

Freed Life exists to eradicate human trafficking through empowering survivors, equipping communities and changing systems.

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11
Arizona Ecumenical Council

Arizona Ecumenical Council dba Arizona Faith Network invites people into meaningful relationships, shared prayer and dialogue rooted in our faith traditions, and actions that influence public awareness, engagement and policy.

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12
Thrive Rescue

Providing care to rescue children from sex slavery, and to build a loving home environment for children to recover.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope; the most unlike its peers is One Family Memphis. 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

8 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
2/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONVOY OF HOPE: $55,000 · InternationalCONVOY OF HOPELIFE IMPACT INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,000 · InternationalLIFE IMPACT INTERNATIONAL INCELEVATE PHOENIX: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentELEVATE PHOENIXHOPE RISING ARIZONA: $30,000 · Human ServicesHOPE RISING ARIZONAONE FAMILY MEMPHIS: $12,500 · Human ServicesONE FAMILY MEMPHISHonnold Foundation: $30,000 · EnvironmentHonnold Found…BELIEVE BEYOND ABILITY: $26,000 · HealthBELIEVE BEYO…Activate Food Arizona: $20,000 · Community ImprovementActivate …
International$75,000Youth Development$50,000Human Services$42,500Environment$30,000Health$26,000Community Improvement$20,000

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 budgetELEVATE PHOENIX: $50,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHOPE RISING ARIZONA: $30,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetHonnold Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBELIEVE BEYOND ABILITY: $26,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetLIFE IMPACT INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetActivate Food Arizona: $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetONE FAMILY MEMPHIS: $12,500 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE6.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
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no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%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 8 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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