How much does Parker Poe Charitable Trust give?

Parker Poe Charitable Trust reported 31 grants totaling $825,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Parker Poe Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (42%), Education (16%), Philanthropy (14%).

Who are Parker Poe Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Thomasville Cultural Center Inc ($1.2M), Pebble Hill Foundation Inc ($780k), Millbrook School ($419k).

Does Parker Poe Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Parker Poe Charitable Trust 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.

Where is Parker Poe Charitable Trust based?

Parker Poe Charitable Trust is based in GA.

Parker Poe Charitable Trust

Parker Poe Charitable Trust at a glance

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Parker Poe Charitable Trust

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as Parker Poe Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include William Howard Flowers Jr Foundation Inc, Williams Family Foundation of Georgia Inc, Lewis Hall and Mildred Sasser Singletary Foundation Inc.

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.

$826k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$120k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$2.4MEducation$907kPhilanthropy$815kRecreation & Sports$617kEnvironment$561kAnimals$101kHealth$58kYouth Development$54kOther$0

02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k10 grants · $41k
$10k–50k13 grants · $228k
$50k–250k8 grants · $557k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$19M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
PEBBLE HILL FOUNDATION	$120,000
THOMASVILLE CULTURAL CENTER	$105,000
T L SPENCE JR VETERANS MUSEUM	$75,000
MILLBROOK SCHOOL	$57,000
THOMAS UNIVERSITY	$50,000
NORTH FLORIDA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC	$50,000
MILLBROOK COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP INC	$50,000
JACK HADLEYS BLACK HISTORY MEMORABILIA INC	$50,000
THOMASVILLE ENTERTAINMENT FOUNDATION	$35,000
THOMASVILLE GARDEN CLUB	$33,000
THOMASVILLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP	$25,000
TALL TIMBERS RESEARCH	$25,000
NATIONAL SPORTING LIBARY INC	$25,000
THOMAS COUNTY YOUTH CAMP INC	$15,000
TALLAHASSEE MUSEUM	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $163k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$5.4M · 48 repeat orgs$186k to everyone else

48 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.4M

$144k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%

+16%

Still filing today

77%

65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsHealthEnvironmentAnimalsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

TC
THOMASVILLE CULTURAL CENTER INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +13%
PH
PEBBLE HILL FOUNDATION INC
8× · 2017–2025 · $780k · revenue +122%
MS
MILLBROOK SCHOOL
7× · 2019–2025 · $419k · revenue +58%

Funded once

AB
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College Foundation Inc
one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -38%
ST
ST TIMOTHY'S SCHOOLgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +72%
HH
HALCYON HOME FOR BATTERED WOMANINCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +31%

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.

04Its field

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.

Macculloch Hall Historical Museum

Established in 1950 by w. parsons todd (1877-1976), macculloch hall historical museum preserves and interprets its historic house and gardens, unparalleled collection of the work of political cartoonist thomas nast (1840-1902), fine and…

Unclassified

Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education

Brookgreen Gardens

Brookgreen gardens was formed in 1931 to collect, preserve and exhibit american sculpture, and the flora and fauna native to south carolina.

Environment

Chatham Historical Society Inc

The mission of the chatham historical society is to inform and educate, present and future generations, about the history and culture of chatham and vicinity by collecting and preserving records of earlier generations and by exhibiting and…

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Wilton Historical Society Inc

To maintain wilton historical society's collection of historic buildings, care and conservation of antiques and artifacts. exhibits and educational programs and events to educate the public of all ages on wilton's history.

Arts & Culture

The Red Mill Museum Village Inc

Through its 12 buildings, its exhibitions both permanent and rotating of its collection of 40,000 artifacts, and its ongoing educational/outreach programs, the museum seeks to preserve, maintain, and present to the public the social,…

Arts & Culture

Thomas Cole Historic House

The thomas cole national historic site preserves and interprets the home, and studios of thomas cole, the founder of the hudson river school of painting, the nation's first art movement. cole's profound influence on america's cultural…

Arts & Culture

The Company of the Redwood Library and Athenaeum

Founded in 1747 on the enlightenment ideals of intellectual pursuit and civic engagement, the redwood library and athenaeum generates knowledge in the humanities for the benefit of the widest possible audience with nothing in view but the…

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John Hay Estate At the Fells

Our mission is to welcome people of all ages to the john hay estate at the fells, making each visit an enriching experience with opportunities to explore and learn from our natural lakeside setting, our renowned historic buildings and…

Animals

Hillwood Estate Museum & Gardens

Hillwood estate, museum & garden's (hillwood) mission is to share the renowned art collections, exceptional gardens and related public and educational programs with a wide and diverse audience. since its opening, hillwood has served…

Arts & Culture

Smithtown Historical Museums

Our mission is to ensure that the history of smithtown township and our long island heritage is restored, preserved and interpreted for the education and enjoyment of current and future generations. we seek to strengthen the ties to our…

Arts & Culture

Hill-Stead Museum Board of Governors Inc

To support and to provide advice and assistance to the trustees of the hill-stead museum, a national historic landmark and public charity which preserves, displays and interprets the 1901 colonial home, property, and fine art collections…

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thomasville Cultural Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Thomasville Garden Club Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

59 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. 59 of the 77 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

58/59

Grantees still filing

38/59

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$2,174,250Education$1,011,500Philanthropy$812,788Other$747,000Environment$420,730Recreation & Sports$302,000Human Services$162,500

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.

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.

William Howard Flowers Jr Foundation IncGA51.3× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: William Howard Flowers Jr Foundation Inc · Williams Family Foundation of Georgia Inc · Lewis Hall and Mildred Sasser Singletary Foundation Inc · Thomasville Antiques Show Foundation Inc · Perkins Charitable Foundation · Jasper & Marthalene Davis Foundation Inc · The Thomas M and Irene Kirbo Charitable Foundation · Arlen & Doris Yokley Charitable Foundation · The Claire H B Jonklaas Foundation · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Pegasus Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Parker Poe Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Parker Poe Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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