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Gerald J & Eleanor Parsons Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$143k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
31
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$31,000
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$1.4M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Education$60kPhilanthropy$50kReligion$37kHealth$18kHuman Services$10kRecreation & Sports$7kFood & Nutrition$5kYouth Development$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Way of Chester County Inc$50,00012%
Malvern Preparatory School$31,00010%
Saint Elizabeth Church$25,0001n/a
Immaculata University$10,00010%
Congregation of the Sisters Servants of the Immaculate Heart$10,0001n/a
Starability Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Catholic Charities Appeal of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia$6,5001n/a
Fairfield University$5,00010%
Villanova University$5,00010%
Lord's Pantry of Downingtown$5,00010%
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All grantees of Gerald J & Eleanor Parsons Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United Way of Chester County Inc$50,00012%
Malvern Preparatory School$31,00010%
Saint Elizabeth Church$25,0001n/a
Immaculata University$10,00010%
Congregation of the Sisters Servants of the Immaculate Heart$10,0001n/a
Starability Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Catholic Charities Appeal of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia$6,5001n/a
Fairfield University$5,00010%
Villanova University$5,00010%
Lord's Pantry of Downingtown$5,00010%
Founding Forward (Formerly the Union League Legacy Foundation)$5,00010%
Partners in Outreach$1,5001n/a
Chester County Hospital$1,50010%
Community Volunteers in Medicine$1,00010%
American Heart Association Inc$1,00010%
Archdiocese of Philadelphia$1,0001n/a
Holiday Hope Chest$1,00011%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$70010%
Alexs Lemonade Stand Foundation$50010%
Children International$2681n/a
Uwchlan Ambulance Corps Inc$25010%
Special Olympics Pennsylvania Inc$2501n/a
Lionville Fire Company$2501n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($14k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gerald J & Eleanor Parsons Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Way of Chester County Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMalvern Preparatory School: $31,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetImmaculata University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStarability Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFairfield University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVillanova University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLord's Pantry of Downingtown: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFounding Forward (Formerly the Union League Legacy Foundation): $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChester County Hospital: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Volunteers in Medicine: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHoliday Hope Chest: $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlexs Lemonade Stand Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUwchlan Ambulance Corps Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

Donald & Elizabeth Parsons CharitabPA15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donald & Elizabeth Parsons Charitab · Chester County Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Maguire Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Gerald J & Eleanor Parsons Charitable Foundation

How much does Gerald J & Eleanor Parsons Charitable Foundation give?
Gerald J & Eleanor Parsons Charitable Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $142,718 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does Gerald J & Eleanor Parsons Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), Philanthropy (26%), Religion (19%).
Who are Gerald J & Eleanor Parsons Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2025: United Way of Chester County Inc ($50k), Malvern Preparatory School ($31k), Saint Elizabeth Church ($25k).
Does Gerald J & Eleanor Parsons Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Gerald J & Eleanor Parsons Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donald & Elizabeth Parsons Charitab, Chester County Community Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is Gerald J & Eleanor Parsons Charitable Foundation based?
Gerald J & Eleanor Parsons Charitable Foundation is based in PA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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