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Parker Lifeshare Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $656k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISSISSIPPI READING CLINIC | $140,000 |
| UNIV OF MS FOUND - APPLIED BEHAVIOR | $110,500 |
| MS TOUGHEST KIDS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| OPERATION SHOESTRING | $100,000 |
| CANOPY CHILDREN'S SOLUTIONS | $100,000 |
| MISSION FIRST | $55,000 |
| MAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| SUNNYBROOK CHILDREN'S HOME | $6,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $638k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 99% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against -21% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $146k 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
- UOUNIV OF MS FOUND - APPLIED BEHAVIOR7× · 2018–2024 · $994k
- OSOPERATION SHOESTRING INC7× · 2018–2024 · $632k · revenue -25%
- MCMISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY4× · 2021–2024 · $416k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- MMMC'S MASTERS IN DYSLEXIA THERAPY PRone grant, 2018 · $138k
- MCMISS COLLEGE - SPRING SCHOLARSHIPone grant, 2018 · $50k
- PWPiney Woods Schoolone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +22%
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.
To improve the lives of children and families by providing a continuum of compassionate, measurable, and effective behavioral health and social services by providing management services to mississippi children's home society and cares…
To improve the lives of children and families by providing a continuum of compassionate, measurable, and effective behavioral health, education, and social services.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis, Inc. sees a world where every family has what they need to ensure the best health outcomes for their children. They provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and…
Jmg's mission is to keep young people in school through graduation and provide work-based learning experiences that will lead to career advancement opportunities or to enroll in a postsecondary institution that leads to a rewarding career.
Montessori pre-school and kindergarten
Prevention of child abuse
Touching hearts, teaching minds, changing lives
Methodist children's home equips children, youth, and families to flourish by offering hope through christian-centered relationships, services, and support.
Mississippi methodist senior services is dedicated to providing housing and personal care services to the elderly or disabled in the spirit of christian love.
The organization provides clinical sessions on site with patients.
To provide a broad spectrum of programs and program services to meet the needs of mississippi children and adults with disabilities, thus enabling them to achieve maximum independence and gain the greatest quility of life.
Provide child care services to low income families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Magnolia Speech School and the most unlike its peers is Revitalize Mississippi Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 18 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 OPERATION SHOESTRING INC ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MISSION FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds THE MISSISSIPPI READING CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Piney Woods School ↗
- Who funds REVITALIZE MISSISSIPPI INC ↗
- Who funds The Mustard Seed Inc ↗
- Who funds SUNNYBROOK CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
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: Community Foundation for Mississippi · Ergon Foundation Inc · Walker Foundation · Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee · Mike and Janie Jarvis Family Foundation · Feild Co-Operative Association · The Chew Foundation · T H Etheridge Trust · Kathryn & Julian Wiener Fund · Howard & Mary Eliza McMillan Foundation · C Spire Foundation · Elmer & Gladys Ferguson Charitable Trust
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 Lifeshare 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.
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