Missouri · Nonprofit
PARAQUAD INC
PARAQUAD INC (Missouri) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,028,765 to it, the largest being ADELE BRAUN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($1,750,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 75
- Grants received
- $8.0M
- Net assets
- $8.4M
What Paraquad Inc does
Mission
Paraquad champions equity and independence for people with disabilities through services, partnerships, education, and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Consumer directed services is a medicaid based program that provides personal care attendant services to individuals with disabilities, enabling them to live with greater independence in the community, rather than a nursing home. Services were provided to 309 clients.
$6,464,697 spentof which $6,000 as grants$419,923 earned by the program66% of program spendingIndependent living adult program provided services to 65 participants. The peer program offered support to 111 participants. Information and referral services were given to 3,750 individuals. Youth and family: 84 youth and their families received services through monthly youth group summer camps, education advocacy, and transition services. 5 participants used the telephone access program, and 217 participants received equipment through the durable medical equipment reuse program. 82 participants received 60 demonstrations. Home modification carries out minor home modification and ramp construction to ensure participants can remain safe in their homes. 145 participants were served in the home modification program.
$1,589,469 spent$103,246 earned by the program16% of program spendingThe stephen a. Orthwein center facilitates lifelong fitness for individuals with disabilities and older adults who benefit from exercising in a supportive, adaptive environment. The center served 393 participants. The center had 14,587 check-ins and performed 4,197 one on one personal training sessions to 148 participants.
$1,099,901 spent$71,446 earned by the program11% of program spendingEmployment services partners with participants to develop an individualized plan based on their employment goals. From entry level to professional positions, jobseekers have access to paraquad's network of employers who are actively seeking qualified candidates with disabilities. 17 participants participated in the summer work experience program. 14 participants received employment services, and 8 participants received retention services. 79 participants received continuing education services. The culinary training program had 15 graduates. The work incentives planning and assistance program received 330 referrals and counseled 154 participants.
$372,215 spent$24,178 earned by the program4% of program spendingThe public policy and advocacy team works with developing and implementing systems changes that promote independent living and eliminate or amend systemic barriers for people with disabilities. Paraquad is also committed to developing leadership in the disability community by recruiting, training, and mobilizing advocates.
$264,948 spent$17,209 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,791,230.
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 $28M to $17M (−41%).
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 82% · 2018 79% · 2019 75% · 2020 71% · 2021 73% · 2022 66% · 2023 74% · 2024 75% · 2025 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Jerrold Ehrlich
CEO
Board chair
Eric Willis
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $289k → $987k.
12 of 75 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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: $6.1M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Paraquad 5240 Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money PARAQUAD INC raised.
From the IRS filings of PARAQUAD INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 75 funders by total. 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
PARAQUAD INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
51% 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 PARAQUAD INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 72% · 2019 28% · 2020 29% · 2021 26% · 2022 30% · 2023 25% — 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.
How long its funders stay
57% of PARAQUAD INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
87% of PARAQUAD INC's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Government funding PARAQUAD INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.7M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$5.0M
- Social Security Administration$1.8M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like PARAQUAD 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Paraquad 5240 Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PARAQUAD INC?
- PARAQUAD INC (Missouri) receives grants from 75 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,028,765 to it, the largest being ADELE BRAUN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($1,750,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PARAQUAD INC have?
- IRS filings report 75 organizations giving $8,028,765 in grants to PARAQUAD INC, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PARAQUAD INC?
- ADELE BRAUN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,750,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PARAQUAD INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 75 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing