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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 FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% 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
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $118k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
UC DAVIS$5,000
PUTAH CREEK COUNCIL$5,000
FRONT PORCH FOUNDATION$5,000
ROTARY CLUB OF DAVIS$5,000
FOR-SITE FOUNDATION$5,000
LAKE TAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$2,500
COMPASSION AND CHOICES$2,500
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART: $35k → 8%LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE: $15k → 8%KNIGHTS OF ST JOHN: $10k → 10%FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $15k → 10%THE ASSOCIATES CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $15k → 14%UC DAVIS: $100k → 16%PEACETECH LAB: $15k → 14%MPT FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART: $25k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $10k → 9%FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $14k → 10%THE ASSOCIATES CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $15k → 14%DEVELOPMENT OFFICE UC DAVIS: $46k → 16%PEACETECH LAB: $10k → 14%SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART: $15k → 8%THE ASSOCIATES CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $15k → 14%UC DAVIS: $41k → 16%NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: $25k → 14%SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART: $10k → 8%THE ASSOCIATES CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $15k → 14%DEVELOPMENT OFFICE UC DAVIS: $41k → 16%NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: $10k → 14%SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART: $10k → 8%UC DAVIS: $39k → 16%NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: $10k → 14%SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART: $10k → 8%UC DAVIS: $36k → 16%NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: $10k → 14%SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART: $10k → 8%UC DAVIS: $33k → 16%NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: $10k → 14%SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART: $10k → 8%UC DAVIS: $33k → 16%DEVELOPMENT OFFICE UC DAVIS: $31k → 16%UC DAVIS: $15k → 16%SF OPERA: $100k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $10k → 16%SF OPERA: $75k → 10%SF OPERA: $25k → 10%SF OPERA: $20k → 10%SF OPERA: $20k → 10%SF OPERA: $20k → 10%SF OPERA: $15k → 10%SF OPERA: $15k → 10%PUTAH CREEK COUNCIL: $20k → 16%CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS: $50k → 10%CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS: $17k → 10%CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS: $10k → 10%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.
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.
$1.3M · 26 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
14

Total granted

$1.3M
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+64%

Still filing today

65%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentReligionRecreation & SportsHealthOther
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

  • SJ
    SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $125k · revenue +7%
  • CC
    CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS
    4× · 2021–2025 · $87k · revenue +29%
  • PC
    PUTAH CREEK COUNCIL
    4× · 2022–2025 · $35k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • KO
    KNIGHTS OF ST JOHN
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • KO
    KNIGHTS OF SAINT JOHN
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • SO
    Sentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +18%
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
Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
2
Fisher Art Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Oakland Museum of California

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Monterey Museum of Art

The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.

Arts & Culture
5
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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6
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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8
Museum Associates

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Museum Foundation of Pacific Grove Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
10
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.

Arts & Culture
11
San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles

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.

Arts & Culture
12
Pasadena Museum of California Art

To present the breadth of california art and design through exhibitions that explore the cultural dynamics and influence that are unique to california.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tahoe Fund; 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.
04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 46 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
17/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UC DAVIS: $302,628 · OtherUC DAVISSF OPERA: $290,000 · OtherSF OPERADEVELOPMENT OFFICE UC DAVIS: $118,000 · OtherDEVELOPMENT OFFICE UC DAVISTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: $65,000 · OtherTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTSTHE ASSOCIATES CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $60,000 · OtherTHE ASSOCIATES CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYPUTAH CREEK COUNCIL: $35,000 · Other+22 more: $140,500 · Other+22 moreSAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION: $125,000 · Arts & CultureSAN JOSE MUSEUM …CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $38,600 · Arts & CultureCORPORATION OF T…MPT FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureMPT FOUNDATION I…SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $13,000 · Arts & Culture+4 moreCALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS: $86,980 · EducationCALIFORNI…THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationTHE UC DA…LAKE TAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationLAKE TAHO…Sentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundation: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $4,000 · EducationPEACETECH LAB INC: $25,000 · InternationalCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $20,000 · Civil RightsLEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE: $19,700 · ReligionAMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EnvironmentTAHOE FUND: $9,000 · Environment
Other$1,011,128Arts & Culture$211,600Education$120,980International$25,000Civil Rights$20,000Religion$19,700Environment$19,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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
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 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 LAKE TAHOE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WINTERS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TAHOE FUND ↗
  • Who funds Tahoe Rim Trail Association ↗
  • Who funds ZEN HOSPICE PROJECT DBA ZEN CAREGIVING PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Sentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundation ↗
  • Who funds FOR-SITE Foundation ↗
  • Who funds COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Santa Cruz SPCA and Humane Society ↗
  • Who funds LOS GATOS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds FoodWhat Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds THE SUMMIT LEAGUE ↗

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 Commun…Marin Community Found…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Parker Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Parker Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get 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 · 0–60%
    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 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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