· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $745k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MS TOUGHEST KIDS FOUNDATION | $220,000 |
| CANOPY CHILDREN'S SOLUTIONS | $200,000 |
| OPERATION SHOESTRING | $100,000 |
| THE MISSISSIPPI READING CLINIC | $100,000 |
| YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED | $75,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| MISSION FIRST | $25,000 |
| STEWPOT COMMUNITY SERVICES | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $813k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 90% 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIV OF MS FOUND - APPLIED BEHAVIOR7× · 2018–2024 · $994k
- OSOPERATION SHOESTRING INC8× · 2018–2025 · $732k · revenue -25%
- MCMISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY5× · 2021–2025 · $616k · 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%
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.
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.
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.
Touching hearts, teaching minds, changing lives
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…
Methodist children's home equips children, youth, and families to flourish by offering hope through christian-centered relationships, services, and support.
Provide child care services to low income families.
Operation of a public charter school in Livingston, AL.
Prevention of child abuse
To operate a head start and early head start program for children and families in mississippi.
To provide high quality, comprehensive child development and after school care to ensure that children can reach their highest potential
Provide support, education and training for Low-Income indivuduals to help become self-sufficient and lead lives of dignity
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 21 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 OPERATION SHOESTRING INC ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MAGNOLIA SPEECH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE MISSISSIPPI READING CLINIC ↗
- Who funds MISSION FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds Mississippi College ↗
- Who funds Piney Woods School ↗
- Who funds REVITALIZE MISSISSIPPI INC ↗
- Who funds STEWPOT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds The Mustard Seed Inc ↗
- Who funds SUNNYBROOK CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Parker Lifeshare Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Parker Lifeshare Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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