Indiana · Nonprofit
PALADIN INC
PALADIN INC (Indiana) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,676,037 to it, the largest being REAL SERVICES INC ($749,234). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $6.8M
What Paladin Inc does
Mission
Mission is to provide necessary resources to persons with disabilities in order to assist them in enhancing their daily lives. We provide habilitation services, individual support, and employment services based on individual program plans.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Day services is a combination of all day programming. Day services includes adult day activities and habilitation services, creative concepts (art & music), computer lab, and community habilitation services. Habilitation focuses on daily living skills training and individualized plans used throughout the day to maximize the individuals potential. Community-based programming is also utilized. Basic needs, such as toileting, feeding, and stimulation, are addressed in all programs as needed. Computer lab services consists of integrating training on computers, with programs such as word processing, spreadsheets, internet use, and other educational programs. Adaptive equipment may be used to enhance skills. Creative concepts includes art and music appreciation.
$5,167,204 spent$4,079,499 earned by the program30% of program spendingResidential services provides individuals living in their home settings supervision and structure twenty-four hours per day. Paladin staff supervise the living situation and assist with daily living skills activities.
$6,471,869 spent$8,239,703 earned by the program38% of program spendingThe infant care program welcomes little ones from six weeks to first steps. This program assists parents to return to work after the birth of their newborn. Pre-school and pre-k children continue to learn self-care, early literacy, and interpersonal skills through fun activities. Three qualified child caregivers provide opportunities for the 14 toddlers to transition into their preschool-hood. Children use all of their senses as they learn about the world around them. The head start promotes school readiness for children, ages three to five, in low-income families by offering educational, nutritional, health, social, and other services. Head start programs enhance the social and cognitive development of children and actively engage families in their childrens learning so that children will be successful in kindergarten.
$4,291,979 spent$151,192 earned by the program25% of program spendingTransportation is provided to clients to/from paladin, inc. When other transportation is not available. Transportation services are also provided to qualified community individuals to/from doctor appointments and qualified community individuals.
$1,023,289 spent$507,813 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $16,954,341.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $9.5M to $7.7M (−19%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 34% · 2022 31% · 2023 25% · 2024 23% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
31% of PALADIN INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Steve Hobby
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $86k → $140k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 PALADIN INC’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
PALADIN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% 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 PALADIN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 85% · 2019 94% · 2020 42% · 2021 40% · 2022 57% · 2023 59% — diversifying over time.
“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
71% of PALADIN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
98% of PALADIN INC's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $114k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
PALADIN INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding PALADIN INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20.6M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$19.1M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.5M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like PALADIN INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PALADIN INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PALADIN INC?
- PALADIN INC (Indiana) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,676,037 to it, the largest being REAL SERVICES INC ($749,234). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PALADIN INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,676,037 in grants to PALADIN INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PALADIN INC?
- REAL SERVICES INC is the largest funder on record, with $749,234 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PALADIN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 12 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