· 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $118k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SF OPERA | $100,000 |
| UC DAVIS | $100,000 |
| CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS | $50,000 |
| SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART | $35,000 |
| UC DAVIS | $32,500 |
| MPT FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO | $15,000 |
| NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS | $10,000 |
| PUTAH CREEK COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| UC DAVIS | $5,000 |
| FOR-SITE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF DAVIS | $5,000 |
| FRONT PORCH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LAKE TAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| COMPASSION AND CHOICES | $2,500 |
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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% 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.
26 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 5 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- SJSAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION8× · 2018–2025 · $125k · revenue +7%
- CCCALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS4× · 2021–2025 · $87k · revenue +29%
- PCPUTAH CREEK COUNCIL4× · 2022–2025 · $35k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- KOKNIGHTS OF ST JOHNone grant, 2022 · $10k
- CCCALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF ARTSone grant, 2018 · $5k
- SOSentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundationone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +18%
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 museum's mission is to inspire all californians to create a more vibrant future for themselves and their communities. through collections, exhibitions, education programs, and public dialogue, we inspire people of all ages and…
The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
To serve the public through the collection, conservation, exhibition and interpretation of significant works of art from a broad range of cultures and historical periods, and through translation of these collections into meaningful…
The Museum inspires wonder, discovery, and stewardship of our natural world. The Museum is a catalyst for conservation and a valued learning resource, facilitating active scientific and historical inquiry for all ages.
The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.
The mission of the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles is to preserve, celebrate, and promote knowledge about quilts and textiles, their creation, their beauty, and their relationship to human culture and expression.
To present the breadth of california art and design through exhibitions that explore the cultural dynamics and influence that are unique to california.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tahoe Fund and the most unlike its peers is Computer History Museum. 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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 46 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 SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS ↗
- Who funds PUTAH CREEK COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MPT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEACETECH LAB INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION & CHOICES ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF DAVIS ↗
- Who funds THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds LAKE TAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WINTERS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TAHOE FUND ↗
- Who funds ZEN HOSPICE PROJECT DBA ZEN CAREGIVING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Tahoe Rim Trail Association ↗
- Who funds Sentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FOR-SITE Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE SUMMIT LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Santa Cruz SPCA and Humane Society ↗
- Who funds LOS GATOS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FoodWhat Incorporated ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.