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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.

$402k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
8%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 17
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$2.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Parker Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentArts & CultureInternationalCivil RightsReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving15$402k33%
FY202412$202k8%
FY202317$169k24%
FY202215$138k33%
FY202115$146k40%
FY202010$132k50%
FY201913$119k23%
FY201816$118kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$750kEducation$257kCommunity Improvement$121kEnvironment$89kScience & Tech$65kHealth$38kInternational$25kPhilanthropy$19kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($854k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Parker Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSan Jose Museum of Art Association: $125,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetCalifornia College of the Arts: $86,980 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe National Museum of Women in the Arts: $65,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCorporation of the Fine Arts Museums: $38,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPutah Creek Council: $35,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetMpt Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPeacetech Lab Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCompassion & Choices: $20,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLeague to Save Lake Tahoe: $19,700 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRotary Club of Davis: $15,000 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetThe Uc Davis Foundation: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLake Tahoe Community College Foundation: $10,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Prairie Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWinters Healthcare Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTahoe Fund: $9,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTahoe Rim Trail Association: $7,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetZen Hospice Project Dba Zen Caregiving Project: $7,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetComputer History Museum: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSanta Cruz SPCA and Humane Society: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLos Gatos Museum Association: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFoodWhat Incorporated: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetChurchill County Museum Association: $2,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetPence Art Gallery: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA16.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Parker Family Foundation

How much does Parker Family Foundation give?
Parker Family Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $401,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Parker Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (53%), Education (18%), Community Improvement (8%).
Who are Parker Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: San Jose Museum of Art Association ($125k), California College of the Arts ($87k), The National Museum of Women in the Arts ($65k).
Does Parker Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Parker Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Parker Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Marin Community Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
Where is Parker Family Foundation based?
Parker Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 46 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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