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Parker Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$55k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$135kHuman Services$75kYouth Development$60kEducation$58kPhilanthropy$50kArts & Culture$24kInternational$13kHousing & Shelter$6k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW MORNING YOUTH AND FAMILY$10,000
SUTTER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$10,000
SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE$5,000
BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION$5,000
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK$5,000
ALS ASSOCIATON OF GREATER SACRAMENTO$5,000
STANFORD YOUTH SOLUTIONS$5,000
YMCA OF SUPERIOR CALIFORNIA$5,000
FIRST TEE-GREATER SACRAMENTO$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%STANFORD YOUTH SOLUTIONSSIERRA FOREVER FAMILIES: $5k → 12%STANFORD YOUTH SOLUTIONS: $5k → 12%STANFORD YOUTH SOLUTIONSSIERRA FOREVER FAMILIES: $5k → 12%NEW MORNING YOUTH AND FAMILY: $10k → 8%STANFORD YOUTH SOLUTIONS: $5k → 12%STANFORD YOUTH SOLUTIONSSIERRA FOREVER FAMILIES: $3k → 12%STANFORD YOUTH SOLUTIONS: $3k → 12%SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $5k → 12%SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $5k → 12%SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $5k → 12%SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $5k → 12%YMCA OF SUPERIOR CALIFORNIA: $5k → 12%YMCA OF SUPERIOR CALIFORNIA: $5k → 12%YMCA OF SUPERIOR CALIFORNIA: $5k → 12%YMCA OF SUPERIOR CALIFORNIA: $5k → 12%YMCA OF SUPERIOR CALIFORNIA: $5k → 12%YMCA OF SUPERIOR CALIFORNIA: $5k → 12%YMCA OF SUPERIOR CALIFORNIA: $5k → 12%YMCA OF SUPERIOR CALIFORNIA: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$323k · 16 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
9

Total granted

$323k
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+12%

Still filing today

69%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureEmploymentRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • TU
    THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $48k · revenue +66%
  • YM
    Young Mens Christian Association of Superior California
    8× · 2018–2025 · $40k · revenue +76%
  • SY
    STANFORD YOUTH SOLUTIONS dba STANFORD SIERRA YOUTH & FAMILIES
    6× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • MF
    MARSHALL FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -20%
  • SC
    Sacramento Central YMCA
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • OR
    OAK RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL THEATER ARTS BOOSTER CLUBgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +752% · 38% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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
Sutter Valley 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
4
California Pacific Medical Center 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
5
Sutter Valley 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
6
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
7
Memorial Hospital 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,…

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8
Sutter Health

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
9
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
10
Sutter Roseville Medical Center 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
11
Sutter Davis Hospital 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
12
Ucsf Health Community Hospitals Fka Saint Francis Memorial Hospital

Ucsf health community hospital's mission statement is caring, healing, teaching, and discovering.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sutter Medical Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Pickleberry Pie Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%0%<5yr15%5%5–10yr18%15%10–20yr17%20%20–35yr12%30%35–55yr15%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr15%1%5–10yr18%4%10–20yr17%27%20–35yr12%37%35–55yr15%31%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/21
the rest of the field
13%
1,436/11,033

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.

04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 27 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SUTTER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $65,000 · HealthSUTTER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIO…PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC — $25,000 · HealthPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWOR…BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $14,000 · HealthBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATIONMARSHALL FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH — $10,000 · HealthMARSHALL FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNI…+2 more — $2,898 · HealthYoung Mens Christian Association of Superior California — $40,000 · Human ServicesYoung Mens Christian Asso…STANFORD YOUTH SOLUTIONS dba STANFORD SIERRA YOUTH & FAMILIES — $25,000 · Human ServicesSTANFORD YOUTH SOLUTIONS …SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE — $20,000 · Human ServicesSAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR …NEW MORNING YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES — $10,000 · Human ServicesNEW MORNING YOUTH AND FAM…ALS ASSOCIATON OF GREATER SACRAMENTO — $15,700 · OtherALS ASSOCIATON O…SIERRA FOREVER FAMILIES — $15,000 · OtherSIERRA FOREVER F…ST MICHAELS EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL — $10,000 · OtherST MICHAELS EPIS…3 STRANDS GLOBAL INC (FORMERLY RUN FOR COURAGE) — $7,500 · Other3 STRANDS GLOBAL…Sacramento Central YMCA — $5,000 · OtherSacramento Centr…Musical Theatre Factory — $5,000 · OtherMusical Theatre …ALS ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SACRAMENTO — $2,500 · Other+2 more — $1,740 · OtherTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION — $47,700 · EducationTHE UC DAVIS FO…OAK RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL THEATER ARTS BOOSTER CLUB — $5,000 · EducationOAK RIDGE HIGH …California Homebuilding Foundation — $5,000 · EducationCalifornia Home…El Dorado Community Foundation — $50,000 · PhilanthropyEl Dorado Com…SACRAMENTO AREA YOUTH GOLF — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsMUSICAL THEATRE FACTORY INC — $10,000 · Arts & CulturePICKLEBERRY PIE INC — $3,500 · Arts & Culture3STRANDS GLOBAL FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Employment
Health$116,898Human Services$95,000Other$62,440Education$57,700Philanthropy$50,000Recreation & Sports$20,000Arts & Culture$13,500Employment$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSUTTER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $65,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetEl Dorado Community Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION — $47,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of Superior California — $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSTANFORD YOUTH SOLUTIONS dba STANFORD SIERRA YOUTH & FAMILIES — $25,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSACRAMENTO AREA YOUTH GOLF — $20,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSIERRA FOREVER FAMILIES — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMUSICAL THEATRE FACTORY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetNEW MORNING YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMARSHALL FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetOAK RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL THEATER ARTS BOOSTER CLUB — $5,000 over 1y, 38% of budget3STRANDS GLOBAL FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCalifornia Homebuilding Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPICKLEBERRY PIE INC — $3,500 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $1,998 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $900 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Sacramento Region Com…Kelly FoundationTeichert FoundationPfund Family Foundati…United Way California…Sutter Valley Hospita…Enterprise Holdings F…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Taylor-Meyer Family F…Point West Rotary Clu…Safe Credit UnionSetzer Foundation
Sacramento Region Community FoundationCA23.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Kelly Foundation · Teichert Foundation · Pfund Family Foundation · United Way California Capital Region · Sutter Valley Hospitals · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Taylor-Meyer Family Foundation · Point West Rotary Club Foundation · Safe Credit Union · Setzer 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Parker Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Parker Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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