· Private foundation
Bernice Pickens Parsons Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| RAVENSWOOD SENIOR CENTER | $3,192 |
| FAMILY REFUGE CENTER | $2,500 |
| WV HEALTH RIGHT INC | $2,500 |
| DAYMARK INC | $2,500 |
| WOMENS HEALTH CENTER | $2,500 |
| KANAWHA VALLEY FELLOWSHIP HOME INC | $2,500 |
| PEAK LIVING SERVICES | $1,500 |
| RAVENSWOOD SENIOR QUILTERS | $1,500 |
| RIPLEY SENIOR CLUB | $1,100 |
| PILOT CLUB OF JACKSON COUNTY | $1,000 |
| SANDYVILLE SENIOR CENTER | $1,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,000 |
| JACKSON COUNTY READ ALOUD | $1,000 |
| BOMAR CLUB | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
34 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KVKANAWHA VALLEY FELLOWSHIP HOME INC9× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +131%
- JCJackson County Public Library Association7× · 2017–2023 · $11k · revenue +24%
- DIDAYMARK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KANAWHAone grant, 2023 · $1k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The southern west virginia fellowship home is here to serve all in need of a better life apart from drugs and alcohol. we have a confident expectation that a whole new life "a better life" exists for all.
Shelter service for abused women and children in mingo and logan counties in west virginia.
The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, dignity, and freedom for all.
Our mission is to help those who are struggling with homelessness, by providing resources to help rebuild their lives.
Rockbridge Recovery supports individuals, families, and communities touched by addictive behaviors through support from peers, prevention, and education.
Anchor homes operates a faith-based recovery program and believes in helping people of all races, nationality, social class, religion, gender, and language with recovery programming and housing. we believe that the answer to addiction is…
Renewal house is a not-for-profit corporation whose mission is to provide transitional housing for men and women 58 years of age or older who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. the organization also refers clients to needed…
A faith-based, sober living house, for men who are serious about maintaining a life of sobriety from addictive substances.
To provide independent living skills, increased self-esteem, and provide hot noon meals for two senior centers.
Our slogan Its only a season, reflects the idea that recovery is not a lifelong struggle but a temporary process. Our goal is to provide the resources and support needed to help our residents navigate this season and come out stronger on…
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 37 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA HEALTH RIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds KANAWHA VALLEY FELLOWSHIP HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Jackson County Public Library Association ↗
- Who funds DAYMARK INC ↗
- Who funds KANAWHA PASTORAL COUNSELING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY REFUGE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RAVENSWOOD SENIOR QUILTERS ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS THERAPY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds THE BOMAR CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA MEAL INC ↗
- Who funds PEAK LIVING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ROARK SULLIVAN LIFEWAY CENTER ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bernice Pickens Parsons Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bernice Pickens Parsons Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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