· Private foundation
Parker Carson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONTESSORI DE TERRA LINDA | $25,000 |
| WETA | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | $10,000 |
| BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE | $10,000 |
| ALLEGHENY BLUE RIDGE ALLIANCE | $8,000 |
| EARTH JUSTICE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND | $8,000 |
| ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| VCU FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE COTTAGE SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY OF VIRGINIA | $5,000 |
| COLLEGIATE SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| VIRGINIA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
44 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 2 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- TSTHE SABOT SCHOOL INC6× · 2017–2022 · $145k · revenue +76%
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +55%- GWGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- SSSABOT SCHOOL AT STONY POINTone grant, 2023 · $30k
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -10%- HFHOUSING FAMILIES FIRSTgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +44%
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.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
To establish an effective, long-term and resilient political infrastructure that advocates for and delivers public policy victories which reflect the values held in common by our members.
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
Chamberrva is the trusted voice for modern business in the richmond virginia region. we are change agents, rallying to do the hard things that will create a more connected, prosperous, health and equitable community.
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
The mission of the northern virginia technology council (nvtc) is to accelerate tech innovation and promote a world class workforce. nvtc connects, educates, advocates and celebrates the region's thriving tech ecosystem.
New schools for virginia works with parents, students, educators and the community to improve educational outcomes by designing new schools and by supporting existing schools to improve outcomes.
To cultivate & advance the science of jurisprudence, promote reform in the law & in judicial procedure, facilitate the administration of justice in virginia, and to uphold & elevate the standard of honor, integrity, and courtesy in the…
Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…
The vscpa's mission is to empower the cpa profession to thrive. the mission supports our vision for the cpa profession to be champions of change, drivers of innovation, trusted visionary leaders, and relationship builders. the vscpa unites…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The News Literacy Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Urban Baby Beginnings dba Ubb. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
41 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. 41 of the 62 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 THE SABOT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY-BLUE RIDGE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MONTESSORI DE TERRA LINDA ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds FAUQUIER FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD CARE AND LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Sperryville Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds VPM MEDIA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE COTTAGE SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SPERRYVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds SPERRYVILLE VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC ↗
- Who funds ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT ↗
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: The Community Foundation Inc · The William and Mary Greve Foundation Inc · Northern Piedmont Community Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Fauquier Health Foundation Dba the Path Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Jesse and Rose Loeb Foundation Inc · Robins Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Fhi Services · Tesco Foundation
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 Parker Carson Foundation 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.
- Media Literacy Now — 12% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
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.