Texas · Nonprofit
PARAGON MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL
PARAGON MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,450 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($10,200). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $261k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $35k
What Paragon Ministries International does
Mission
Primary purpose is to plant churches and ministries that reproduce themselves and to establish healthy relationships between the diverse peoples and church structures of europe, north america and north africa and to bring youth to christ and into this process as a whole.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Weekly meetings - each weekly meeting was held in a local establishment, be it a cafe or other type of place that rented us its venue for a place to provide gospel music from a live band, teaching from the bible, prater for one another and fellowhip around snacks. Also hosted weekly student and adult bible studies. Mission teams - hosted a mission team from south africa in may/june also participated in outreach and evangelism events which included the serving of the poor. Through this team effort we added more students to our weekly campus meetings and more adults to our weekly adult bible studies.
$222,039 spent100% of program spendingOutreach - provided weekly and monthly outreaches with music, surveys and discussion groups in the public, mostly on friday nights. Taught and trained our members to share their story of how their lives have been changed through the ministry, prayed for and with many and created a musical vibe that attracted many people which added to our members at our weekly meetings.
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $222,039.
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 $106k to $35k (−67%).
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 100% · 2024 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of PARAGON MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $100 → $10k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL’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 MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
77% 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 MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2021 54% — 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
77% of PARAGON MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Texas funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k 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 MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $20k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like PARAGON MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PARAGON MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL?
- PARAGON MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,450 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($10,200). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PARAGON MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $20,450 in grants to PARAGON MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PARAGON MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PARAGON MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 3 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