· Private foundation
Donald & Elizabeth Parsons Charitab
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of DONALD & ELIZABETH PARSONS CHARITAB’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BISHOP SHANAHAN HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR CATHOLIC EDUCATION | $10,000 |
| HANDI-CRAFTERS | $10,000 |
| SISTERS OF IHM | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CHESTER COUNTY | $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 |
| SAINTS PETER AND PAUL SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| SAINTS PHILIP AND JAMES SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| SISTERS OF IHM ST JOSEPH CONVENT | $3,000 |
| HOLIDAY HOPECHEST | $2,500 |
| WEST CHESTER SENIOR CENTER | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your 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. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
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
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
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%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — 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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe Harbor of Chester County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Shine Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your 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 ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Donald & Elizabeth Parsons Charitab funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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