West Virginia · Private foundation
Bernice Pickens Parsons Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $31k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $503k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Bernice Pickens Parsons Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $31k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $26k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $31k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $30k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $27k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $26k | 6% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $30k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $22k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia Health Right Inc | $17,840 | 9 | 0% |
| Kanawha Valley Fellowship Home Inc | $16,457 | 9 | 1% |
| Jackson County Public Library Association | $11,250 | 7 | 0% |
| Daymark Inc | $10,368 | 9 | 0% |
| Kanawha Pastoral Counseling Center Inc | $10,356 | 7 | 0% |
| Family Refuge Center Inc | $9,250 | 5 | 0% |
| Ravenswood Senior Quilters | $8,553 | 9 | 66% |
| Pilot Club of Jackson County II Association | $8,485 | 9 | n/a |
| Meals on Wheels Inc | $6,493 | 7 | n/a |
| Childrens Therapy Clinic | $5,095 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 16 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia Health Right Inc | $17,840 | 9 | 0% |
| Kanawha Valley Fellowship Home Inc | $16,457 | 9 | 1% |
| Jackson County Public Library Association | $11,250 | 7 | 0% |
| Daymark Inc | $10,368 | 9 | 0% |
| Kanawha Pastoral Counseling Center Inc | $10,356 | 7 | 0% |
| Family Refuge Center Inc | $9,250 | 5 | 0% |
| Ravenswood Senior Quilters | $8,553 | 9 | 66% |
| Pilot Club of Jackson County II Association | $8,485 | 9 | n/a |
| Meals on Wheels Inc | $6,493 | 7 | n/a |
| Childrens Therapy Clinic | $5,095 | 7 | 0% |
| The Bomar Club Inc | $3,800 | 7 | 1% |
| The Children's Home Society of West Virginia Inc | $2,248 | 6 | 0% |
| Manna Meal Inc | $1,750 | 3 | 0% |
| Peak Living Services Inc | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Living a I D S Memorial Garden Inc | $1,348 | 4 | n/a |
| Roark Sullivan Lifeway Center | $1,148 | 3 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($125k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bernice Pickens Parsons Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · The Daywood Foundationinc · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · Charles & Mary Fayne Glotfelty Foundation Inc · Bernard H and Blanche E Jacobson Foundation · HB Wehrle Foundation Stephen D Wehrle TTEE · Herscher Foundation Inc · Sisters of St Joseph Charitable Fund Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Bernice Pickens Parsons Foundation
- How much does Bernice Pickens Parsons Foundation give?
- Bernice Pickens Parsons Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $31,292 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bernice Pickens Parsons Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (26%), Health (23%), Housing & Shelter (9%).
- Who are Bernice Pickens Parsons Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: West Virginia Health Right Inc ($18k), Kanawha Valley Fellowship Home Inc ($16k), Jackson County Public Library Association ($11k).
- Does Bernice Pickens Parsons Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bernice Pickens Parsons Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bernice Pickens Parsons Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation, The Daywood Foundationinc, Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc.
- Where is Bernice Pickens Parsons Foundation based?
- Bernice Pickens Parsons Foundation is based in WV.
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