Mississippi · Private foundation
Parker Lifeshare 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.
- $780k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $220,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 8
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Parker Lifeshare Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $780k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $662k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $561k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $588k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $502k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $506k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $484k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $534k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operation Shoestring Inc | $732,000 | 8 | 9% |
| Mississippi Children's Home Society | $616,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Magnolia Speech School | $290,000 | 5 | 2% |
| The Mississippi Reading Clinic | $240,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Mission First Inc | $216,400 | 5 | 3% |
| Youth Opportunities Unlimited | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mississippi College | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Piney Woods School | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Revitalize Mississippi Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Stewpot Community Services Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operation Shoestring Inc | $732,000 | 8 | 9% |
| Mississippi Children's Home Society | $616,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Magnolia Speech School | $290,000 | 5 | 2% |
| The Mississippi Reading Clinic | $240,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Mission First Inc | $216,400 | 5 | 3% |
| Youth Opportunities Unlimited | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mississippi College | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Piney Woods School | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Revitalize Mississippi Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Stewpot Community Services Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Mustard Seed Inc | $6,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Sunnybrook Children's Home Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Parker Lifeshare Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About Parker Lifeshare Foundation
- How much does Parker Lifeshare Foundation give?
- Parker Lifeshare Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $780,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Parker Lifeshare Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (48%), Education (19%), Human Services (17%).
- Who are Parker Lifeshare Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Operation Shoestring Inc ($732k), Mississippi Children's Home Society ($616k), Magnolia Speech School ($290k).
- Does Parker Lifeshare Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Parker Lifeshare 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 Lifeshare Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Mississippi, Ergon Foundation Inc, Walker Foundation.
- Where is Parker Lifeshare Foundation based?
- Parker Lifeshare Foundation is based in MS.
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