California · Nonprofit
THE PAROS FOUNDATION
THE PAROS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,537,350 to it, the largest being THE MOSSE FOUNDATION ($1,927,774). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE PAROS FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Fiduciary Charitable Foundation Dba Fiduciary Trust Charitableshared funders
- Buhler Kapsalis Family Foundationportfolio match
- Hellenic Foundationportfolio match
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $42k → $884k.
1 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 THE PAROS FOUNDATION’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
THE PAROS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
26% 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 THE PAROS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 37% · 2019 47% · 2020 56% · 2021 52% · 2022 40% · 2023 40% — broadly stable.
“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
35% of THE PAROS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
74% of THE PAROS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 30 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Fiduciary Charitable Foundation Dba Fiduciary Trust Charitableshared fundersMA · backs 67 organizations that share your funders
- Buhler Kapsalis Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hellenic Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Craig and Connie Thatcher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ahepa Affordable Housing Management Company Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arlette & William J Coleman Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Atel Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Essex County Community Foundation Incshared fundersMA · backs 68 organizations that share your funders
- The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New Yorkshared fundersNY · backs 46 organizations that share your funders
- Give Lively Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 71 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like THE PAROS FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE PAROS FOUNDATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE PAROS FOUNDATION?
- THE PAROS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,537,350 to it, the largest being THE MOSSE FOUNDATION ($1,927,774). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE PAROS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $4,537,350 in grants to THE PAROS FOUNDATION, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE PAROS FOUNDATION?
- THE MOSSE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,927,774 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE PAROS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 30funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing