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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.

Revenue FY2024
$28k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$205k
Net assets
$18k
3/3 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Youth on the Ridge Community Found Inc Dba Paradise Chocolate Fest Inc does

Mission

Conduct a series of fundraising events centered on the hosting of the annual Paradise Chocolate Festival. Profits are donated to local youth organizations as shown on list of Grants.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Conduct a series of fundraising events centered on the hosting of the annual Paradise Chocolate Festival. Profits are donated to local youth organizations as shown on list of Grants.

    $14,006 spentof which $14,006 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $14,006.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($69k) Expenses 100 ($68k) Net assets 100 ($13k)2018 Revenue 67 ($47k) Expenses 79 ($53k) Net assets 50 ($7k)2019 Revenue 121 ($84k) Expenses 94 ($64k) Net assets 202 ($27k)2020 Revenue 14 ($10k) Expenses 15 ($10k) Net assets 218 ($29k)2021 Revenue 128 ($89k) Expenses 21 ($14k) Net assets 773 ($104k)2022 Revenue 55 ($38k) Expenses 118 ($80k) Net assets 462 ($62k)2023 Revenue 15 ($11k) Expenses 92 ($62k) Net assets 76 ($10k)2024 Revenue 41 ($28k) Expenses 30 ($20k) Net assets 134 ($18k)
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Revenue (41)Expenses (30)Net assets (134)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $29k to $104k (+255%).

$13k
$7k
$27k
$29k
$104k
$62k
$10k
$18k
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Total assets

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,261 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$2k
’17
−$7k
’18
$20k
’19
$131
’20
$75k
’21
−$42k
’22
−$52k
’23
$8k
’24
03Who funds it

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.

71%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

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.

CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $145k 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.

04Its place in the field

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 4,682 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin28% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−12% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,682 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

CA

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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.

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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