Utah · Nonprofit
PARADIGM HIGH SCHOOL
PARADIGM HIGH SCHOOL (Utah) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,846 to it, the largest being PACIFICORP FOUNDATION AKA PACIFIC POWER FOUNDATION AKA ROCKY MOUNTAIN POWER FOUNDATI ($9,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $16k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Paradigm High School does
Mission
To manage, operate, guide, direct, and promote a public charter school funded by local, state, and federal sources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Operation of one public charter school for students from seventh to twelth grade
$4,345,454 spent$207,713 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,345,454.
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 2024 to 2025, from $9.6M to $11M (+10%).
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: 2017 89% · 2018 93% · 2019 92% · 2020 93% · 2021 95% · 2022 93% · 2023 92% · 2024 91% · 2025 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of PARADIGM HIGH SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Fernando Seminario
Executive director
Board chair
Brenda Petru
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $257 → $472.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 PARADIGM HIGH SCHOOL’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
PARADIGM HIGH SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 53% · 2021 63% · 2022 63% · 2023 92% — 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.
Where its funders are
PARADIGM HIGH SCHOOL draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside Utah, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
PARADIGM HIGH SCHOOL's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PARADIGM HIGH SCHOOL
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 Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PARADIGM HIGH SCHOOL: 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 PARADIGM HIGH SCHOOL?
- PARADIGM HIGH SCHOOL (Utah) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,846 to it, the largest being PACIFICORP FOUNDATION AKA PACIFIC POWER FOUNDATION AKA ROCKY MOUNTAIN POWER FOUNDATI ($9,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PARADIGM HIGH SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $15,846 in grants to PARADIGM HIGH SCHOOL, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PARADIGM HIGH SCHOOL?
- PACIFICORP FOUNDATION AKA PACIFIC POWER FOUNDATION AKA ROCKY MOUNTAIN POWER FOUNDATI is the largest funder on record, with $9,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PARADIGM HIGH SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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