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PARADOX COMMUNITY TRUST

PARADOX COMMUNITY TRUST (Colorado) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,506,826 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($3,000,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.0M
Revenue FY2024
8
Funders on record
$3.5M
Grants received
$5.0M
Net assets
1/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 52%

Against its field

PARADOX COMMUNITY TRUST holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,723 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−0% · below the median
Months of reserve74.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−34% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,723 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 0 ($0) Net assets 0 ($0)2021 Revenue 100 ($3.4M) Expenses 100 ($31k) Net assets 100 ($3.4M)2022 Revenue 11 ($370k) Expenses 238 ($74k) Net assets 80 ($2.7M)2023 Revenue 74 ($2.5M) Expenses 781 ($242k) Net assets 147 ($5.0M)2024 Revenue 29 ($1.0M) Expenses 3241 ($1.0M) Net assets 147 ($5.0M)
20172021202220232024
Revenue (29)Expenses (3241)Net assets (147)Peer revenue range

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 113% · 2024 276%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

522% of PARADOX COMMUNITY TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,882 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$0
17
$3.4M
21
$296k
22
$2.3M
23
$2k
24
74
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)5% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $1.5M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Telluride Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money PARADOX COMMUNITY TRUST raised.

From the IRS filings of PARADOX COMMUNITY TRUST’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

PARADOX COMMUNITY TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

86%
largest funder
96%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

98% of PARADOX COMMUNITY TRUST's grant income comes from Colorado funders.

CA
CO

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $170k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like PARADOX COMMUNITY TRUST

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Colorado

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 11%Fundraising 4%

Governance

5
board members
60%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CO

Part of a family of 5 related entities

  • Norwood Homes LLC · disregarded
  • Ridgway Homes LLC · disregarded
  • Ouray Homes LLC · disregarded
  • Nucla Homes LLC · disregarded
  • Telluride Foundation · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PARADOX COMMUNITY TRUST: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds PARADOX COMMUNITY TRUST?
PARADOX COMMUNITY TRUST (Colorado) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,506,826 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($3,000,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PARADOX COMMUNITY TRUST have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $3,506,826 in grants to PARADOX COMMUNITY TRUST, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PARADOX COMMUNITY TRUST?
THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PARADOX COMMUNITY TRUST find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 8funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing