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Lorne and Ilona Parker Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$112k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
33
Grants FY2024
33
Organizations funded FY2023
12%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$33,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 33
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$2.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 12% of the organizations Lorne and Ilona Parker Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalHealthEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving33$112k15%
FY202333$95k12%
FY202233$115k36%
FY20211$116k0%
FY202026$88k19%
FY201931$92k58%
FY201818$85k44%
FY201712$49kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$251kAnimals$116kCivil Rights$66kInternational$65kHuman Services$59kEducation$54kYouth Development$36kEnvironment$30kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NY
MA
OR
CA
MO
MD
HI
LA
AL
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Lorne and Ilona Parker Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Marin Ventures$128,30063%
Casa de Love Animal Rescue$113,500620%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$36,90070%
The Fistula Foundation$32,50070%
In Spirit$28,00077%
San Francisco Food Bank$28,00070%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$26,00070%
Global Offsite Care$24,500620%
Seva Foundation$24,00060%
Bernard Osher Marin Jewish Community Center$18,00070%
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation$17,50070%
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research$14,00050%
Human Rights Watch Inc$13,75050%
University of California Irvine Foundation$13,25040%
Pd-Connect Inc$11,5002n/a
Marin Academy$11,00030%
California Pacific Medical Center Foundation$10,50050%
Parkinson's Foundation Inc$9,50050%
Kanpe Foundation Inc$8,70041%
The Trust for Public Land$7,00030%
Marin Dance Theatre$7,00030%
University of California San Francisco Foundation$5,50020%
Regents of the University of California at Irvine$5,0001n/a
The Amistad Research Center$5,00020%
American Society for Yad Vashem Inc$4,00020%
The Wooster Group Inc$3,00030%
Ph Foundation$3,00020%
Glide Foundation$3,00020%
Foundation for Students Rising Above$3,00020%
Hui Laulima O Hana$2,50014%
Hall Family Foundation$2,00010%
Compassion Without Borders$2,00010%
American Parkinson Disease Assoc$2,00020%
Krewe Du Kanaval$1,5001100%
Mercy Corps$1,50010%
San Francisco Women Artists$1,5001n/a
The Park School of Buffalo$1,50010%
American Kidney Fund Inc$1,00010%
The University Corporation San Francisco State$1,00010%
Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc$1,00010%
Kqed Inc$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($119k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Lorne and Ilona Parker Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 38 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMarin Ventures: $128,300 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetCasa de Love Animal Rescue: $113,500 over 6y, 20% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $36,900 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fistula Foundation: $32,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetIn Spirit: $28,000 over 7y, 7.3% of budgetSan Francisco Food Bank: $28,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $26,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Offsite Care: $24,500 over 6y, 20% of budgetSeva Foundation: $24,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBernard Osher Marin Jewish Community Center: $18,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPartners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: $17,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research: $14,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHuman Rights Watch Inc: $13,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of California Irvine Foundation: $13,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMarin Academy: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Pacific Medical Center Foundation: $10,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetParkinson's Foundation Inc: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKanpe Foundation Inc: $8,700 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetThe Trust for Public Land: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMarin Dance Theatre: $7,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of California San Francisco Foundation: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Amistad Research Center: $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Society for Yad Vashem Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Wooster Group Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPh Foundation: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGlide Foundation: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Students Rising Above: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHui Laulima O Hana: $2,500 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetHall Family Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCompassion Without Borders: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Parkinson Disease Assoc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKrewe Du Kanaval: $1,500 over 1y, 100% of budgetMercy Corps: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Park School of Buffalo: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Kidney Fund Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe University Corporation San Francisco State: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAtlanta Community Food Bank Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKqed Inc: $500 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 38.

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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.

Marin Community FoundationCA18.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving 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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About Lorne and Ilona Parker Foundation

How much does Lorne and Ilona Parker Foundation give?
Lorne and Ilona Parker Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $112,250 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Lorne and Ilona Parker Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (33%), Animals (15%), Civil Rights (9%).
Who are Lorne and Ilona Parker Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Marin Ventures ($128k), Casa de Love Animal Rescue ($114k), American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc ($37k).
Does Lorne and Ilona Parker Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lorne and Ilona Parker Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lorne and Ilona Parker Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, McNabb Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
Where is Lorne and Ilona Parker Foundation based?
Lorne and Ilona Parker Foundation is based in CA.

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 65 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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