Colorado · Nonprofit
PARADOX VALLEY SCHOOL
PARADOX VALLEY SCHOOL (Colorado) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $174,423 to it, the largest being CHARLES REDD FOUNDATION ($95,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $174k
- Net assets
- $0
What Paradox Valley School does
Mission
To inspire children to have goals and dreams for their future and to provide a level of educational excellence that teaches the knowledge skills character and creativity.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2023 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The Organization was closed and stopped providing service as of June 30 2023.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Preschool to 12th grade charter school provides education to students for 150 days out of the year. We provide afterschool programs for up to four days per week starting the third week of school and running to the end of school. A library is provided and open during school hours for all students and also after school two days a week. The library is open to the general public three days a week during the school year.
$0 spentNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spentNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spentOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $0.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $2.7M to $0 (−100%).
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 90% · 2018 89% · 2019 92% · 2020 33% · 2021 90% · 2022 90% · 2023 90% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $28k → $45.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 PARADOX VALLEY 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
PARADOX VALLEY SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 88%; 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: 2017 54% · 2018 81% · 2019 67% · 2020 51% · 2021 50% · 2022 47% · 2023 100% — 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
PARADOX VALLEY SCHOOL draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $323 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.
Organizations like PARADOX VALLEY 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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PARADOX VALLEY 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 PARADOX VALLEY SCHOOL?
- PARADOX VALLEY SCHOOL (Colorado) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $174,423 to it, the largest being CHARLES REDD FOUNDATION ($95,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PARADOX VALLEY SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $174,423 in grants to PARADOX VALLEY SCHOOL, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PARADOX VALLEY SCHOOL?
- CHARLES REDD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $95,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PARADOX VALLEY SCHOOL 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.
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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 7 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