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YOUTH ON THE RIDGE COMMUNITY FOUND INC DBA PARADISE CHOCOLATE FEST INC
YOUTH ON THE RIDGE COMMUNITY FOUND INC DBA PARADISE CHOCOLATE FEST INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $205,068 to it, the largest being NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($145,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
YOUTH ON THE RIDGE COMMUNITY FOUND INC DBA PARADISE CHOCOLATE FEST INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,673 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,673 youth development nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- Paradise Rotary Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Butte County Office of Educationshared funderslocal
- BAR NI Community Service Fundportfolio 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.
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.
100% of YOUTH ON THE RIDGE COMMUNITY FOUND INC DBA PARADISE CHOCOLATE FEST INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $95k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% 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 YOUTH ON THE RIDGE COMMUNITY FOUND INC DBA PARADISE CHOCOLATE FEST 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
YOUTH ON THE RIDGE COMMUNITY FOUND INC DBA PARADISE CHOCOLATE FEST INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
71% 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 YOUTH ON THE RIDGE COMMUNITY FOUND INC DBA PARADISE CHOCOLATE FEST INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 50% · 2022 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
71% of YOUTH ON THE RIDGE COMMUNITY FOUND INC DBA PARADISE CHOCOLATE FEST INC'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 $60k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $145k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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 3 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Paradise Rotary Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchCA · backs 13 organizations that share your funders · funds 19 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Butte County Office of Educationshared funderslocalCA · backs 15 organizations that share your funders · funds 24 organizations near you
- BAR NI Community Service Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Racing for Charity Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Yli Believe Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Paul Lauzier Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Irving J Symons Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Osceola Convention and Visitors Bureau Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Changex United States Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Joseph & Katherine Castucci Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Skatepark Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Janice Seagraves Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 YOUTH ON THE RIDGE COMMUNITY FOUND INC DBA PARADISE CHOCOLATE FEST INC
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YOUTH ON THE RIDGE COMMUNITY FOUND INC DBA PARADISE CHOCOLATE FEST 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 YOUTH ON THE RIDGE COMMUNITY FOUND INC DBA PARADISE CHOCOLATE FEST INC?
- YOUTH ON THE RIDGE COMMUNITY FOUND INC DBA PARADISE CHOCOLATE FEST INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $205,068 to it, the largest being NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($145,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does YOUTH ON THE RIDGE COMMUNITY FOUND INC DBA PARADISE CHOCOLATE FEST INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $205,068 in grants to YOUTH ON THE RIDGE COMMUNITY FOUND INC DBA PARADISE CHOCOLATE FEST INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUTH ON THE RIDGE COMMUNITY FOUND INC DBA PARADISE CHOCOLATE FEST INC?
- NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $145,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUTH ON THE RIDGE COMMUNITY FOUND INC DBA PARADISE CHOCOLATE FEST INC 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 3funders 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