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Form 990-PFTax year 2025EIN 94-3374734

Paraklete Foundation

A private foundation in Sunol, CA. Its return for tax year 2025 lists 8 grants and $48,530 paid in grants.

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Tax year 2025 (period ending Dec 31, 2025), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

How to apply

Accepts applications

The return gives an application contact and rules, as below.

Contact
Judie Smith
P O Box 137
Sunol, CA 94568
(925) 461-5053
[email protected]
Form and materials
The Paraklete Board reviews grants twice a year focusing on requests that match our vision of supporting those in need of education training or experience in life skills spiritual nature and or Christian service in lower economic communities. The Parklete Foundation is a small family foundation with limited resources and our approval process is guided by a few key principles. We focus primarily but not exclusively on organizations and workers who share our faith and world view. Our preference is to support short term projects or the startup of specified new activities by an established organization. Specific projects allow us to exercise our passion to come alongside and participate with the people and the project through prayer with the pleasure of hearing feedback on personal stories activities and progress. We also are eager to provide for new projects and workers recognizing that start up organizations often need extra assistance. We do scrutinize new works to be sure the
Deadlines
July31 and December 31 each year
Restrictions
The Paraklete Foundation proclaims demonstrates and expresses Gods love by supporting those in need of education training or experience in life skills spiritual nurture and or Christian service in lower economic communities. The Paraklete Foundation is composed of individuals who are unabashedly followers of Jesus Christ and who desire to come along side those who are in need of the following: 1. Education or training for life skills or financial independence. 2. Increased knowledge or experience necessary for a Christ-honoring life. 3. Assistance in education or training to enable Christian work within a lower economic community local or foreign. 4. Encourage those with special talents and abilities to utilize those gifts in Christ-honoring or Christ-proclaiming ways.

Assets and giving by year

7 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.

  • Tax year 2025

    $48,530

    Grants listed
    8
    Assets, end of year
    $692,489

  • Tax year 2024

    $45,500

    Grants listed
    5
    Assets, end of year
    $641,252

  • Tax year 2023

    $20,000

    Grants listed
    3
    Assets, end of year
    $586,752

  • Tax year 2022

    $23,822

    Grants listed
    6
    Assets, end of year
    $514,620

  • Tax year 2021

    $20,420

    Grants listed
    2
    Assets, end of year
    $636,398

  • Tax year 2020

    $39,850

    Grants listed
    3
    Assets, end of year
    $548,348

  • Tax year 2019

    $22,450

    Grants listed
    5
    Assets, end of year
    $530,578

Grants paid in 2025

8 grants, largest first

As listed on the return.

  1. Child Hope InternationalSanta Barbara, CA

    Support work to reunite orphans with family members in Haiti

    $9,720
  2. Hope HorizonEast Palo Alto, CA

    Spiritual summer camp for underprivileged children

    $6,000
  3. Go On The MissionBremerton, WA

    Support for building a classroom in Senegal

    $6,000
  4. The Gem FoundationPhoenix, AZ

    Support for a special needs school in Uganda

    $6,000
  5. East Africa Village OutreachElk Grove, CA

    Primary school construction and furnishings

    $5,810
  6. Asia Leadership DevelopmentElk Grove, CA

    Supply yurt living units for Mongolia through the Mercy Network

    $5,000
  7. The Mom CommunityAtlanta, GA

    Supporting needy mothers with basic necessities

    $5,000
  8. Oaks of RighteousnessHumble, TX

    Counseling for inmates in Texas prison

    $5,000

Where the money goes

By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.

  1. Arts and culture1 grant $9,72031% of the total
  2. International aid1 grant $6,00019% of the total
  3. Religion1 grant $6,00019% of the total
  4. Crime and legal aid1 grant $5,00016% of the total
  5. Human services1 grant $5,00016% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. California4 grants $26,530
  2. Arizona1 grant $6,000
  3. Washington1 grant $6,000
  4. Georgia1 grant $5,000
  5. Texas1 grant $5,000

Officers, directors and trustees

8 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • Dennis R SmithDirector Hours 2Pay $0
  • Judith A SmithSecretary Hours 1Pay $0
  • Kara M LockeTrustee Hours 0.5Pay $0
  • Charles L LockeTrustee Hours 0.5Pay $0
  • Anthony C SmithTrustee Hours 0.5Pay $0
  • Michelle M SmithTrustee Hours 0.5Pay $0
  • Nichlas C LockeTrustee Hours 0.5Pay $0
  • Marissa Fackler LockeTrustee Hours 0.5Pay $0

The return

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