· Private foundation
Parker Family 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $908k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALZHEIMERS DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS | $213,000 |
| ACTORS SHAKESPEARE PROJECT INC | $175,000 |
| EDVESTORS INC | $110,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS BUDGET & POLICY CENTER | $110,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $85,000 |
| SUMMER SEARCH | $85,000 |
| PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| GRUB STREET INC | $45,000 |
| THEATER OFFENSIVE INC | $40,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS | $30,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS POETRY OUTREACH PROGRAM | $25,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 61% of your 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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $318k 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
- DADECORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM & PARK5× · 2019–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +15%
- SSSUMMER SEARCH7× · 2019–2025 · $604k · revenue +43%
Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $588k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- SFSTAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIPone grant, 2019 · $50k
- GSGRUB STREET INCone grant, 2020 · $38k
- CMCARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +15%
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 organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.
The boston public library fund provides financial support to the boston public library (bpl), ensuring that it remains viable, engaging, accessible, and free to all. the library fund fulfills this mission by working in partnership with…
The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
To promote free expression, academic freedom, viewpoint diversity, and open scientific inquiry in the MIT community
We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Bringing people together for experiences that spark creativity and innovative thinking by making inspiring educational connections among art, history, and natural science.
To provide research facilities to members and to the judicial, executive, and legislative branches of the massachusetts government.
Lwvma, a nonpartisan organization, encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy.
Revolutionary spaces brings people together to explore the american struggle to create and sustain a free society, singularly evoked by boston's old south meeting house and old state house. we steward these buildings as gathering spaces…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is People for the American Way and the most unlike its peers is Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 19 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 DECORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM & PARK ↗
- Who funds ACTORS' SHAKESPEARE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds EDVESTORS INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE THEATER OFFENSIVE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY ↗
- Who funds HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds GRUB STREET INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Barr Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Actors' Shakespeare Project — 6% of income from government
- Handel and Haydn Society — 2% of income from government
- The Theater Offensive Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Grub Street Inc — 2% of income from government
- Edvestors Inc — 1% 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.