· Private foundation
Donald & Elizabeth Parsons Charitab
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF CHESTER COUNTY | $10,000 |
| BISHOP SHANAHAN HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR CATHOLIC EDUCATION | $10,000 |
| SISTERS OF IHM | $10,000 |
| HANDI-CRAFTERS | $10,000 |
| WEST CATHOLIC PREP HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $5,000 |
| SHINE | $5,000 |
| THE ARC OF CHESTER COUNTY | $5,000 |
| SISTERS OF IHM ST JOSEPH CONVENT | $3,000 |
| SAINTS PETER AND PAUL SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| SAINTS PHILIP AND JAMES SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| HOLIDAY HOPECHEST | $2,500 |
| YOUTH MENTORING PARTNERSHIP | $2,500 |
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 (FY19–25, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
22 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% 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
- TATHE ARC OF CHESTER COUNTY6× · 2020–2025 · $43k · revenue +86%
- CVCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +106%
- PIPARTNERS IN OUTREACH5× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $20k
- IHIMMACULATE HEART OF MARY INCone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +19%
- CCCTDI CARESgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +209%
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.
Provide food & aid for people in need
The Chester Mendham Food Pantry provides local families in need with supplemental food and supplies. We have helped over 75 families.
The chester county hospital is a dedicated, community-based hospital committed to health professional education and the provision of high quality patient care, consistent with the identifiable healthcare needs of the chester county area…
To provide nutritious meals and personal interaction to homebound adults living in chester county to help them live independently in their own homes.
The mission of community warehouse project of chester county is to provide household goodsand furnishings to chester county families and individuals in need - at no charge.
To provide comprehensive primary and preventive care and social services to medically underserved families and individuals regardless of their ability to pay.
The west chester food cupboard is one of the largest hunger relief agencies in chester county. we are the primary source of food assistance for low- income residents living in and around the west chester area school district. west chester…
Chestnut hill meals on wheels (the organization) is a community based, non profit organization devoted to meeting the daily nutritional needs of any of our neighbors challenged by illness, disability or age. respecting our clients' desire…
Catholic charities serves to not only meet the immediate needs of the vulnerable within our communities but to provide solutions that embrace a path to stability for those we are privileged to serve. catholic charities is the primary…
The organization provides health/wellness, education support, and urban farm initiatives to residents of affordable / low-income housing in the local community.
The crime victims' center of chester county, inc. (cvc) is a nonprofit agency providing free, immediate, and confidential crisis response and compassionate support to children and adults impacted by sexual violence and all other crime. we…
The mission of the children's hope chest, inc. (chc) is to provide help and offer hope to children in our community suffering from poverty, abuse, neglect and illness. we strive to increase social action by promoting adult and youth…
How this is measured
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 28 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 UNITED WAY OF CHESTER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HANDI-CRAFTERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF CHESTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds SHINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds YOUTH MENTORING PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds LORD'S PANTRY OF DOWNINGTOWN ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBOR OF CHESTER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HOLIDAY HOPE CHEST ↗
- Who funds WEST CHESTER AREA SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds CTDI CARES ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
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: Chester County Community Foundation · United Way of Chester County Inc · Gerald J & Eleanor Parsons Charitable Foundation · Hankin Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · United Way Worldwide · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Donald & Elizabeth Parsons Charitab funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Donald & Elizabeth Parsons Charitab. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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