Arizona · Nonprofit
PARAGON MANAGEMENT INC
PARAGON MANAGEMENT INC (Arizona) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,309 to it, the largest being PROJECT LEAD THE WAY INC ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $34M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $64k
- Net assets
- $7.7M
What Paragon Management Inc does
Mission
Provide excellent free public education and guidance to students in grades k-12 in a safe environment that enables students to be successful, caring, and knowledgeable members of our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Paragon management, inc, dba paradise schools is a k-12 arizona public charter school. Our mission is to provide a safe learning community committed to fostering personal growth and academic excellence. Paradise schools core beliefs include the following: 1. We believe students learn in a school atmosphere that is safe, respectful, and maintains high academic and behavior expectations. 2. We believe in implementing rigorous student-centered curriculum focused on preparing students for their future. 3. We believe in developing authentic relationships built on trust, communication, and a common goal. 4. We believe in establishing a professional learning community enriched with on-going staff development and collaboration. 5. We believe in recruiting and maintaining highly effective staff members that are capable and advocate for the betterment of the school rather than self. 6. We believe in creating a leadership team that guides and governs our school community through sound judgement and best practices. The results of paradise schools core beliefs can be seen in the districts record of academic excellence. An accomplishment of paradise schools has been the ability to earn and…
$26,408,999 spent$31,245,148 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $26,408,999.
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 2019 to 2020, from $50M to $67M (+33%).
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 91% · 2018 91% · 2019 92% · 2020 93% · 2021 98% · 2022 95% · 2023 7% · 2024 4% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of PARAGON MANAGEMENT INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $8k → $11k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 MANAGEMENT INC’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 MANAGEMENT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 MANAGEMENT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 93% · 2021 100% · 2022 97% · 2023 96% — 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
PARAGON MANAGEMENT INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2k 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
PARAGON MANAGEMENT INC has grown faster than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like PARAGON MANAGEMENT INC
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PARAGON MANAGEMENT INC: 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 MANAGEMENT INC?
- PARAGON MANAGEMENT INC (Arizona) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,309 to it, the largest being PROJECT LEAD THE WAY INC ($30,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PARAGON MANAGEMENT INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $64,309 in grants to PARAGON MANAGEMENT INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PARAGON MANAGEMENT INC?
- PROJECT LEAD THE WAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PARAGON MANAGEMENT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 6 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