Virginia · Nonprofit
PARAGON HEALTH INSTITUTE
PARAGON HEALTH INSTITUTE (Virginia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,047,115 to it, the largest being THE SEMINAR NETWORK INC ($5,620,275). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $9.0M
- Net assets
- $5.3M
What Paragon Health Institute does
Mission
The organization is a health policy research institute that aims to educate policymakers and inform the public through evidence-based research, economic analysis, and data. The institute aims to improve health policy by empowering patients, expanding competition, increasing innovation, and reforming government programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Paragon conducts research on a variety of issues concerning health policy, notably medicaid, medicare, private health, and public health. The organization's work is produced in many different formats, including printed and digital research papers, social media, infographics, and website posts. Paragon's experts also educate audiences via appearances on tv and radio, and during in-person and virtual briefings, lectures, panels, and testimonies.
$2,738,405 spentof which $12,500 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,738,405.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $1.8M to $4.2M (+135%).
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.
93% of PARAGON HEALTH INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Joseph Grogan
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $2.0M → $2.0M.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 PARAGON HEALTH INSTITUTE’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
PARAGON HEALTH INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 PARAGON HEALTH INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 86% · 2023 85% — 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.
Where its funders are
66% of PARAGON HEALTH INSTITUTE's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $550k 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
PARAGON HEALTH INSTITUTE has grown faster than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PARAGON HEALTH INSTITUTE
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 Virginia
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 39 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PARAGON HEALTH INSTITUTE: 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 PARAGON HEALTH INSTITUTE?
- PARAGON HEALTH INSTITUTE (Virginia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,047,115 to it, the largest being THE SEMINAR NETWORK INC ($5,620,275). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PARAGON HEALTH INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $9,047,115 in grants to PARAGON HEALTH INSTITUTE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PARAGON HEALTH INSTITUTE?
- THE SEMINAR NETWORK INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,620,275 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PARAGON HEALTH INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 10 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