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ERIC PAREDES SAVE A LIFE FOUNDATION A CALIFORNIA PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION
ERIC PAREDES SAVE A LIFE FOUNDATION A CALIFORNIA PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $531,660 to it, the largest being RANCHO SANTA FE FOUNDATION ($176,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $180k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $532k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Eric Paredes Save a Life Foundation a California Public Benefit Corporation does
Mission
We educate students, parents, educators, coaches, & others working with youth about sudden cardiac arrest. We advocate for cardiac prevention through risk assessments, free heart screenings, cpr/aed training, aed placement & cardiac emergency response plans in schools.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The eric paredes save a life foundation is visualizing initiatives to standardize prevention of sca in youth in the pediatrician's office, on the field and in the classroom. Leveraging the robust collaborations we've created with stakeholders and tenure we've earned in thought leadership, our sca intervention programs model how to drive comprehensive systemic change in sca health literacy and primary and secondary prevention practices. We are developing heart safe sports communities with our keep their heart in the game sca prevention courses; providing free accredited medical training through prescription for prevention: cardiac risk assessment in primary care; educating the next generation of life-savers with free smart hearts don't miss a beat curriculum; and evolving prevention policy by sponsoring state laws that advocate for change in the standard of care.
$242,269 spent78% of program spendingScreen your teen provides free heart screenings to youth ages 12 to 25 to identify cardiac abnormalities that put 1 in 300 at risk for sudden cardiac arrest (sca). Heart screenings are not part of well-child checkups or pre-participation sports physicals, even though sca is the #1 killer of student athletes and the leading cause of death on school campuses. Screenings include a cardiac risk assessment, ekg (electrocardiogram), echocardiogram and consultation with a cardiologist. We have screened nearly 40,000 youth since 2010, which have found over 600 youth with previously unidentified cardiac abnormalities.
$59,858 spent19% of program spendingSave a heart save a life aed program places automated external defibrillators (aeds) and advocates for the implementation of cardiac emergency response plans anywhere youth congregate. Aeds are the only way to restart the heart of an sca victim, but are not mandated in all schools and youth centers. Every minute's delay in emergency response decreases the chance of survival by 10%, which is why 92% of sca victims die. It's critical for school communities to be as well-practiced in executing the cardiac chain of survival as they are in fire drills.
$10,437 spent3% of program spendingSca awareness initiatives include providing free resources, education and advocacy to parents, educators, coaches, counselors and the medical community and evolving prevention protocol and policy. Our landmark sca prevention california legislation in 2016 inspired sca prevention resources to be included in california department of education 2019 revision of the health education framework and the introduction of a new legislation extending sca prevention protocol to community youth sports programs. A new sca prevention training module for pediatric primary care practitioners is now in development.
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $312,564.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.6M to $1.3M (−15%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
84% of ERIC PAREDES SAVE A LIFE FOUNDATION A CALIFORNIA PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose $98k → $100k.
6 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ERIC PAREDES SAVE A LIFE FOUNDATION A CALIFORNIA PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ERIC PAREDES SAVE A LIFE FOUNDATION A CALIFORNIA PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
68% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ERIC PAREDES SAVE A LIFE FOUNDATION A CALIFORNIA PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 38% · 2019 35% · 2020 86% · 2021 32% · 2022 51% · 2023 75% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
25% of ERIC PAREDES SAVE A LIFE FOUNDATION A CALIFORNIA PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
51% of ERIC PAREDES SAVE A LIFE FOUNDATION A CALIFORNIA PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $260k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $272k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ERIC PAREDES SAVE A LIFE FOUNDATION A CALIFORNIA PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION's revenue fell 47% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ERIC PAREDES SAVE A LIFE FOUNDATION A CALIFORNIA PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION?
- ERIC PAREDES SAVE A LIFE FOUNDATION A CALIFORNIA PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $531,660 to it, the largest being RANCHO SANTA FE FOUNDATION ($176,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ERIC PAREDES SAVE A LIFE FOUNDATION A CALIFORNIA PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $531,660 in grants to ERIC PAREDES SAVE A LIFE FOUNDATION A CALIFORNIA PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ERIC PAREDES SAVE A LIFE FOUNDATION A CALIFORNIA PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION?
- RANCHO SANTA FE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $176,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ERIC PAREDES SAVE A LIFE FOUNDATION A CALIFORNIA PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 16 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing