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Lorne and Ilona Parker Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k32 grants · $79k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $33k
$2,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CASA DE LOVE ANIMAL RESCUE$33,000
PD CONNECT$8,500
SAN GERONIMO VALLEY COMM CENTER$5,500
OSHER MARIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$5,000
ACLU FOUNDATION$5,000
FISTULA FOUNDATION$4,000
MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION$4,000
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH$4,000
UCSF BENIOFF CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS F$3,000
SEVA FOUNDATION$3,000
PARTNERS IN HEALTH$3,000
IN SPIRIT$3,000
MARIN VENTURES$3,000
MARIN DANCE THEATRE$2,000
COMPASSIONS WITHOUT BORDERS$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $146k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MARIN VENTURES: $116k → 8%OSHER MARIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 8%OSHER MARIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 8%MARIN VENTURES: $3k → 8%MARIN VENTURES: $3k → 8%MARIN VENTURES: $2k → 8%MARIN VENTURES: $2k → 8%OSHER MARIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 8%OSHER MARIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 8%MARIN VENTURES: $2k → 8%OSHER MARIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 8%OSHER MARIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 8%OSHER MARIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NY
MA
OR
CA
MO
MD
HI
LA
AL
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$702k · 40 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

40 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
19

Total granted

$702k
$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+21%

Still filing today

68%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureInternationalEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MV
    MARIN VENTURES
    6× · 2017–2024 · $128k · revenue +23%
  • CD
    CASA DE LOVE ANIMAL RESCUE
    6× · 2018–2024 · $114k · revenue +271%
  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $37k · revenue +102%

Funded once

  • S3
    SCI 365 RECOVERYINQUIRING SYSTEMS I
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • SG
    SAN GERONIMO VALLY COMM CNTR
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
2
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
3
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
4
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
5
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
6
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
7
The California Medical Innovations Institute Inc

The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…

Education
8
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
9
Kaiser Foundation for the Advancement of Integrated Health Care

Kaiser foundation for the advancement of integrated health care is a nonprofit 501(c)(4) advocacy organization to engage in proactive advocacy to promote understanding of the benefits of integrated care and coverage, and support of the…

Health
10
Ucsf Health Medical Foundation

See schedule othe mission of ucsf health medical foundation is threefold: 1) to establish, operate and maintain medical clinics for the provision of healthcare services in california; 2) to promote health by providing, coordinating,…

Health
11
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
12
Arc Research Institute

Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Pacific Medical Center Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Ph Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 65 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
34/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAN GERONIMO VALLEY COMM CENTER: $36,000 · OtherSAN GERONIMO VALLEY COMM CENTERSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $28,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANKNATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL: $22,500 · OtherNATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCILPD-CONNECT INC: $11,500 · OtherSCI 365 RECOVERYINQUIRING SYSTEMS I: $10,000 · OtherSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $26,000 · OtherSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC+35 more: $98,250 · Other+35 moreMARIN VENTURES: $128,300 · Human ServicesMARIN VENTURESBERNARD OSHER MARIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $18,000 · Human ServicesBERNARD OSHER MARIN J…The Fistula Foundation: $32,500 · HealthThe Fistula Found…IN SPIRIT: $28,000 · HealthIN SPIRITPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $17,500 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALT…THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $14,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX…CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $10,500 · HealthCALIFORNIA PACIFI…PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $9,500 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUND…+2 more: $4,500 · HealthCASA DE LOVE ANIMAL RESCUE: $113,500 · AnimalsCASA DE LOVE ANIM…+1 more: $2,000 · AnimalsGLOBAL OFFSITE CARE: $24,500 · InternationalGLOBAL OFF…SEVA FOUNDATION: $24,000 · InternationalSEVA FOUND…HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $13,750 · InternationalHUMAN RIGH…KANPE FOUNDATION INC: $8,700 · InternationalKANPE FOUN…+1 more: $1,500 · InternationalAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $36,900 · Civil RightsUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $13,250 · EducationMARIN ACADEMY: $11,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $5,500 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $2,500 · EducationTHE PARK SCHOOL OF BUFFALO: $1,500 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · Education
Other$232,250Human Services$146,300Health$116,500Animals$115,500International$72,450Civil Rights$36,900Education$34,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 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
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 MARIN VENTURES ↗
  • Who funds CASA DE LOVE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Fistula Foundation ↗
  • Who funds IN SPIRIT ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL OFFSITE CARE ↗
  • Who funds SEVA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BERNARD OSHER MARIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MARIN ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KANPE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
  • Who funds MARIN DANCE THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WOOSTER GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds PH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GLIDE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE ↗

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 Found…McNabb FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lorne and Ilona Parker Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lorne and Ilona Parker Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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