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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.

$170k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$360kEnvironment$291kArts & Culture$150kPublic Benefit$107kCommunity Improvement$53kHealth$50kHuman Services$25kPublic Safety & Disaster$19kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $105k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WETA$25,000
MONTESSORI DE TERRA LINDA$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC$15,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS$10,000
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER$10,000
BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE$10,000
EARTH JUSTICE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND$8,000
ALLEGHENY BLUE RIDGE ALLIANCE$8,000
ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL$6,000
COLLEGIATE SCHOOL$5,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY OF VIRGINIA$5,000
VCU FOUNDATION$5,000
THE COTTAGE SCHOOL$5,000
VIRGINIA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT$5,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES: $5k → 18%SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES: $2k → 18%URBAN BABY BEGINNINGS: $1k → 22%URBAN BABY BEGINNINGS: $1k → 22%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

NY
MA
RI
CA
KY
VA
MD
TN
DC
HI
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 44 repeat orgs$71k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
14

Total granted

$1.1M
$63k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+44%

Still filing today

61%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterPublic BenefitOther
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

  • TS
    THE SABOT SCHOOL INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $145k · revenue +76%
  • SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +55%
  • GW
    GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • SS
    SABOT SCHOOL AT STONY POINT
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -10%
  • HF
    HOUSING FAMILIES FIRSTgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +44%
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
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

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).

Education
2
Virginia Coalition for Progressive Values

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.

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3
University of Virginia Foundation

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…

Education
4
Vcu Health Tappahannock Hospital

To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.

Health
5
Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce

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.

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6
Vcu Investment Management Company

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…

Education
7
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

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…

Health
8
Northern Virginia Technology Council Inc

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.

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9
New Schools for Virginia

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.

Education
10
The Virginia Bar Association

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…

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11
Virginia Community Action Partnership Inc

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…

Human Services
12
Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The News Literacy Project Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 62 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/41
Grantees still filing
28/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SABOT SCHOOL INC: $145,000 · OtherTHE SABOT SCHOOL INCSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $90,000 · OtherSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTERLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $48,000 · OtherLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUNDNATURE CONSERVANCY OF VIRGINIA: $45,000 · OtherNATURE CONSERVANCY OF VIRGINIAFAUQUIER FREE CLINIC INC: $40,000 · OtherFAUQUIER FREE CLINIC INCHIGHLANDERS FOR RESPONSIBLE DEVELOPMENT: $40,000 · OtherHIGHLANDERS FOR RESPONSIBLE DEVELOPMENTVCU FOUNDATION: $31,000 · OtherSABOT SCHOOL AT STONY POINT: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherTHE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS: $25,000 · OtherVIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $23,500 · Other+24 more: $133,000 · Other+24 moreMONTESSORI DE TERRA LINDA: $70,000 · EducationMONTESSORI DE TER…THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $26,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF…THE CHILD CARE AND LEARNING CENTER: $19,500 · EducationTHE CHILD CARE AN…HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $16,000 · EducationHOLLINS UNIVERSIT…THE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC: $14,000 · EducationTHE NEWS LITERACY…THE COTTAGE SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER INC: $10,000 · EducationTHE COTTAGE SCHOO…ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL: $6,000 · EducationTHE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $6,000 · Education+3 more: $11,000 · Education+3 moreALLEGHENY-BLUE RIDGE ALLIANCE: $73,000 · EnvironmentALLEGHENY-BLU…EARTHJUSTICE: $53,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICECHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $8,500 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE BA…+3 more: $7,000 · EnvironmentGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER WA…BAY AREA DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $15,000 · Arts & CultureBAY AREA D…VPM MEDIA CORPORATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureVPM MEDIA …VIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMedia Literacy Now: $4,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureSperryville Community Foundation: $13,000 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITY: $9,000 · Community ImprovementVIRGINIA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT: $15,000 · Public BenefitSPERRYVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $9,500 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$680,500Education$178,500Environment$141,500Arts & Culture$110,000Community Improvement$22,000Public Benefit$15,000Public Safety & Disaster$9,500

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 budgetTHE SABOT SCHOOL INC: $145,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $90,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALLEGHENY-BLUE RIDGE ALLIANCE: $73,000 over 8y, 7.3% of budgetMONTESSORI DE TERRA LINDA: $70,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $53,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $48,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFAUQUIER FREE CLINIC INC: $40,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $26,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILD CARE AND LEARNING CENTER: $19,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetHOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $16,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC: $14,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSperryville Community Foundation: $13,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetTHE COTTAGE SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVPM MEDIA CORPORATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPERRYVILLE VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD INC: $9,500 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetSPERRYVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $9,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $8,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOUSING FAMILIES FIRST: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAPPU INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMedia Literacy Now: $4,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetONEVIRGINIA2021: $3,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR RAINFOREST NATIONS SECRETARIAT: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH BRIGADE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetProject Yoga Richmond Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCOALITION FOR INTEGRITY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRICHMOND STRIKERS SOCCER CLUB INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEADWATERS THE RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCAPITAL REGION LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOTHILLS FORUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 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 BAY AREA DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds VIRGINIA PUBLIC ACCESS PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds THE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Sperryville Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE COTTAGE SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds VPM MEDIA CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds SPERRYVILLE VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
  • Who funds SPERRYVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT 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 VIRGINIA CENTER FOR THE CREATIVE ARTS ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…The William and Mary …Northern Piedmont Com…Richard S Reynolds Fo…The Mary Morton Parso…Fauquier Health Found…Mightycause Charitabl…The Jesse and Rose Lo…Robins FoundationCarmax FoundationFhi ServicesTesco Foundation
The Community Foundation IncVA34.1× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Parker Carson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Parker Carson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Media Literacy Now: 12% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 62 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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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home