Colorado · Nonprofit
PARADOX COMMUNITY TRUST
PARADOX COMMUNITY TRUST (Colorado) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,517,516 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($3,000,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $5.0M
What Paradox Community Trust does
Mission
To undertake activities lawfully open to nonprofit corporations organized under the colorado revised nonprofit corporations act ("act") to the extent such activities may be conducted by organizations organized and operated exclusively for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes as described in code 501(c)(3) include developing affordable housing and rural community development.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Our mission is to build the highest quality homes, creating great neighborhoods, affordably priced for locals.
$1,009,841 spentof which $15,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,009,841.
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 $5.9M to $15M (+148%).
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: 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).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
David Ware
CEO
Board chair
Richard Betts
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 9 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 85% 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
“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.
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.
Against its field
PARADOX COMMUNITY TRUST holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,728 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,728 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like PARADOX COMMUNITY TRUST
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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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Questions and answers
- Who funds PARADOX COMMUNITY TRUST?
- PARADOX COMMUNITY TRUST (Colorado) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,517,516 to it, the largest being THE COLORADO HEALTH FOUNDATION ($3,000,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PARADOX COMMUNITY TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $3,517,516 in grants to PARADOX COMMUNITY TRUST, 2 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 9 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