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Parker Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$135k
Granted FY2025still arriving
56
Grants FY2025still arriving
18
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$307kArts & Culture$96kHealth$71kEnvironment$54kRecreation & Sports$51kAnimals$51kYouth Development$42kReligion$29kOther$0
02FY2025 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k54 grants · $110k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$1,500
Median grant
18
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERDS FUREVER$15,025
Individual grant recipient$10,000
CHAPIN$7,500
Individual grant recipient$7,000
ST ANDREWS SCHOOL$6,000
THE ALEX MANFULL FUND$6,000
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION$5,000
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF DURHAM$5,000
CAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA$5,000
THE MADEIRA SCHOOL$5,000
NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION$4,050
RANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE$4,000
WJCT$4,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER DURH$3,000
MAYO CLINIC DEPT OF DEVELOPMENT$2,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ST ANDREWS SCHOOL: $6k → 10%SPRING FOREST QIGONG: $12k → 11%NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION: $4k → 17%COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $8k → 12%CAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA: $8k → 10%CHILDRENS CARDIOMYOPATHY: $9k → 7%THE MADEIRA SCHOOL: $10k → 6%ST MARGARETS SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%THE ALEX MANFULL FUND: $6k → 5%ST ANDREWS SCHOOL: $5k → 10%SPRING FOREST QIGONG: $11k → 11%COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%CAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA: $5k → 10%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF DURHAM: $5k → 11%CHILDRENS CARDIOMYOPATHY FOUNDATION: $9k → 7%THE MADEIRA SCHOOL: $8k → 6%ST ANDREWS SCHOOL: $5k → 10%SPRING FOREST QIGONG: $11k → 11%COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%CAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA: $5k → 10%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF DURHAM: $5k → 11%CHILDRENS CARDIOMYOPATHY: $9k → 7%THE MADEIRA SCHOOL: $6k → 6%SPRING FOREST QIGONG: $10k → 11%COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%CAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA: $5k → 10%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF DURHAM: $5k → 11%CHILDRENS CARDIOMYOPATHY FOUNDATION: $9k → 7%THE MADEIRA SCHOOL: $5k → 6%SPRING FOREST QIGONG: $10k → 11%COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $4k → 12%CAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA: $4k → 10%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF DURHAM: $5k → 11%CHILDRENS CARDIOMYOPATHY: $7k → 7%THE MADEIRA SCHOOL: $5k → 6%SPRING FOREST QIGONG: $10k → 11%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF DURHAM: $5k → 11%CHILDRENS CARDIOMYOPATHY: $7k → 7%THE MADEIRA SCHOOL: $5k → 6%COASTAL CONSERVATION LEAGUE: $10k → 12%COASTAL CONSERVATION LEAGUE: $8k → 12%COASTAL CONSERVATION LEAGUE: $5k → 12%COASTAL CONSERVATION LEAGUE: $5k → 12%CHAPIN: $8k → 17%CHAPIN: $5k → 17%CHAPIN: $5k → 17%CHAPIN: $5k → 17%CHAPIN: $5k → 17%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$807k · 68 repeat orgs$69k to everyone else

68 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
38

Total granted

$807k
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+51%

Still filing today

62%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther

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

  • The Madeira School
    7× · 2018–2025 · $49k · revenue +206%
  • CO
    COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2025 · $38k · revenue +8%
  • TC
    THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD
    5× · 2021–2025 · $28k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • MS
    My Sister's House Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $7k · revenue +16%
  • CF
    Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University-Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • TF
    THE FUND FOR BABSON
    one grant, 2020 · $4k

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
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
2
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
3
The York School

York school is an award-winning, private, coed college-prep school for grades 8-12, that develops confident and authentic leaders. we offer an academically challenging experiential program for bright, kind, and driven students in an…

Education
4
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
5
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
8
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
9
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
10
Darrow School

Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…

Education
11
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
12
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fete Du Void. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAnimal Rescue and ShelterElementary Literacy TutoringPolicy Research and AdvocacyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Local History MuseumsChristian Youth CampsDomestic Violence ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsEnvironmental Conservation …School District FoundationsYmca Youth DevelopmentCommunity FoundationsCancer Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 54 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%49%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr16%66%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/60
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,505

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

59 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. 59 of the 111 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/59
Grantees still filing
45/59
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $64,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INC — $40,269 · OtherCAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INCIndividual grant recipient — $32,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOASTAL CONSERVATION LEAGUE — $27,875 · OtherCOASTAL CONSERVATION LEAGUEFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $25,000 · OtherST ANDREWS SCHOOL — $24,100 · Other+66 more — $270,275 · Other+66 moreThe Madeira School — $48,519 · EducationThe Madeira SchoolCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION — $37,519 · EducationCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUND…THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD — $27,500 · EducationTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTDRANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE — $22,500 · EducationRANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGEST MARGARET'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $16,000 · EducationST MARGARET'S SCHOOL FOUNDA…WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY — $10,500 · EducationBOOK HARVEST — $9,750 · EducationROANOKE COLLEGE — $9,000 · EducationElon University — $9,000 · EducationCHRISTCHURCH SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $7,500 · Education+5 more — $18,100 · Education+5 moreCHILDREN'S CARDIOMYOPATHY FOUNDATION INC — $27,000 · HealthCHILDREN'…National Kidney Foundation Inc — $15,925 · HealthNational …Agrace HospiceCare Foundation Inc — $13,500 · HealthAgrace Ho…THE ALEX MANFULL FUND — $7,000 · HealthTHE ALEX …MAYO CLINIC — $6,500 · HealthMAYO CLIN…+1 more — $2,000 · HealthAUSTRALIAN SHEPHERDS FUREVER CORP — $40,025 · AnimalsCAROLINA BORDER COLLIE RESCUE — $3,818 · AnimalsROCK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $22,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $5,500 · Arts & CultureINDIANA STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 · Arts & CultureThe Alliance Francaise of the Lake Champlain Region — $1,150 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $1,000 · Arts & CultureROTARY BOTANICAL GARDENS INC — $12,250 · EnvironmentKennebunk Land Trust — $9,700 · EnvironmentTETON SCIENCE SCHOOLS INC — $4,100 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $2,500 · EnvironmentJACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST — $1,300 · Environment+1 more — $400 · EnvironmentSWINGPALS INC — $8,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE TVRC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $3,100 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JANESVILLE INC — $2,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $300 · Youth Development
Other$483,519Education$215,888Health$71,925Animals$43,843Arts & Culture$31,150Environment$30,250Youth Development$13,900

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Madeira School — $48,519 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INC — $40,269 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetAUSTRALIAN SHEPHERDS FUREVER CORP — $40,025 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION — $37,519 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD — $27,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S CARDIOMYOPATHY FOUNDATION INC — $27,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetRANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE — $22,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetROCK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $22,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetWJCT INC — $16,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetST MARGARET'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $16,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc — $15,925 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAgrace HospiceCare Foundation Inc — $13,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DURHAM AND ORANGE COUNTIES — $13,250 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetDWIGHT SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $12,344 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetROTARY BOTANICAL GARDENS INC — $12,250 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY — $10,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBOOK HARVEST — $9,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKennebunk Land Trust — $9,700 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetTASIS FOUNDATION INC — $9,500 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetROANOKE COLLEGE — $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetElon University — $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSWINGPALS INC — $8,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $8,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES — $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN INC — $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTCHURCH SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ALEX MANFULL FUND — $7,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetPINE CREST PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC — $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PECK SCHOOL — $6,800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMy Sister's House Inc — $6,625 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommon Roots Inc — $6,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GUNSTON SCHOOL INC — $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC — $5,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY BLACKHAWK REGION INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTETON SCIENCE SCHOOLS INC — $4,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF FONDATION DE FRANCE INC — $3,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University — $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJERSEY BATTERED WOMEN'S SERVICE INC — $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRESCUE MISSIONS MINISTRIES INC — $3,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA OF NORTHERN ROCK COUNTY INC — $3,400 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBETHANY MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION — $3,350 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetTHE TVRC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $3,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCRANE RIVER THEATER COMPANY INC — $3,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIANA STATE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $1,500 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.

  • Who funds The Madeira School ↗
  • Who funds CAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INC ↗
  • Who funds AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERDS FUREVER CORP ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S CARDIOMYOPATHY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ROCK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds WJCT INC ↗
  • Who funds ST MARGARET'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds National Kidney Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Agrace HospiceCare Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DURHAM AND ORANGE COUNTIES ↗
  • Who funds DWIGHT SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ROTARY BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
  • Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BOOK HARVEST ↗
  • Who funds Kennebunk Land Trust ↗
  • Who funds TASIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ROANOKE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Elon University ↗
  • Who funds SWINGPALS INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTCHURCH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE ALEX MANFULL FUND ↗
  • Who funds PINE CREST PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PECK SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds My Sister's House Inc ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗

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.

Jpc FoundationCommunity Foundation …Triangle Community Fo…Alliant Energy Founda…Baird Foundation IncJanesville Foundation…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Claremont S Jackman F…Seneca Foods Foundati…Duke UniversityJpmorgan Chase Founda…Greater Green Bay Com…
Jpc FoundationWI17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpc Foundation · Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Janesville Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Claremont S Jackman Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Seneca Foods Foundation · Duke University · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc

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 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 · 50%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Jersey Battered Women's Service Inc — 40% of income from government
  • Common Roots Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Pine Crest Preparatory School Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get 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

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 Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Parker 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 111 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.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines