· Private foundation
Parker Kemp 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k46 grants · $111k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CANINE COMPANIONS | $32,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $30,250 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| LEXINGTON HIGH SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| TARA PERFORMING ARTS HIGH SCHOOL | $11,000 |
| SUSAN G KOMEN FOR THE CURE | $10,000 |
| MCLEAN COUNTY SWCD FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LEXINGTON COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| LEXINGTON FOOD PANTRY | $9,100 |
| MIDWEST FOOD BANK | $9,000 |
| ST PATRICK CHURCH OF MERNA | $6,750 |
| RACING FOR MENTAL HEALTH | $6,000 |
| LEXINGTON GENEALOGICAL & HISTORICAL SCTY | $5,500 |
| LIFELONG ACCESS (FORMERLY MARCFIRST) | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
77 repeat relationships: 49 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 6 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IWILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $125k · revenue +8%
- CCCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $117k · revenue +70%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $112k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- SMST MARYS CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $15k
DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +67%- NPNOMAD PLAYHOUSEone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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.
Provide affordable, high-quality health services and remove inequities to improve the lives of all.
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To support and promote mental health services in the four counties of carroll, lee, ogle, and whiteside.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
To further the education of healthcare providers in the neurosciences, provide community education with an emphasis on public awareness of neurological disorders, and support and conduct clinical and pre-clinical research in the…
To give members the ability to control their financial destiny by providing members with the means to satisfy their needs for financial services in a comfortable family-like environment. in doing so, the credit union strives to maintain…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
To be the trusted partner in all healthcare decisions and to improve health by providing highly accessible, world-class care and services.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
How this is measured
53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 95 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TARA INSTITUTE OF THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE BABY FOLD ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP ↗
- Who funds Community Cancer Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOME SWEET HOME MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PSORIASIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS INC ↗
- Who funds RACING FOR MENTAL HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds LIFELONG ACCESS ↗
- Who funds DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds TOWN OF NORMAL CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE CLINIC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Illinois Prairie Community Foundation Inc · Snyder Family Foundation Nfp · The Growmark Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · United Way of McLean County · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paul a Funk Foundation · Russell and Betty Shirk Foundation · Stephen S and Anne E K Matter Foundation · Myers Family Foundation · Reardon Family Foundation · The Owen Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Parker Kemp Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Parker Kemp Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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