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Parkinson Family 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.

$24k
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
0180% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222025.

Animals$21kInternational$15kArts & Culture$13kReligion$12kHealth$7kEducation$5kPhilanthropy$3kEnvironment$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$250
Median grant
6
States reached
$535k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM$5,150
ST JOHN EPISCOPAL CHURCH$4,500
IVORYTON PLAYHOUSE$3,000
SISTER CITIES ESSEX HAITI$1,900
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLESEX C$1,000
ESSEX LIBRARY ASSOCIATION$1,000
Individual grant recipient$725
WELLESLEY COLLEGE$650
MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL$500
ESSEX LAND TRUST$500
MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION$355
Individual grant recipient$350
MUSICAL MASTERWORKS$300
MIDDLESEX HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$250
MILTON ACADEMY$250
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%MILTON ACADEMY: $250 → 7%CT RIVER CONSERVANCY: $725 → 14%EAST WOOD SCHOOL: $250 → 6%NETWORK FOR GOOD: $250 → 14%SISTER CITIES ESSEX HAITI: $5k → 7%SE COUNTY WORLD AFFAIRS: $275 → 9%CT AUDUBON SOCIETY: $10k → 9%MILTON ACADEMY: $250 → 7%ST JOHN EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $5k → 7%SE COUNTY WORLD AFFAIRS: $275 → 9%CT AUDUBON SOCIETY: $5k → 9%MILTON ACADEMY: $250 → 7%SISTER CITIES ESSEX HAITI: $4k → 7%CT AUDUBON SOCIETY: $5k → 9%MILTON ACADEMY: $250 → 7%ST JOHN EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $3k → 7%CT AUDUBON SOCIETY: $250 → 9%NSCDA CT: $350 → 11%WELLESLEY COLLEGE: $650 → 7%SISTER CITIES ESSEX HAITI: $3k → 7%NSCDA CT: $300 → 11%WELLESLEY COLLEGE: $250 → 7%ST JOHN EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $3k → 7%FLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM: $5k → 9%WELLESLEY COLLEGE: $250 → 7%SISTER CITIES ESSEX HAITI: $2k → 7%FLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM: $430 → 9%ST JOHN EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $2k → 7%MUSICAL MASTERWORKS: $350 → 9%ESSEX LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $1k → 7%FLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM: $300 → 9%ESSEX LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $1k → 7%MUSICAL MASTERWORKS: $300 → 9%ESSEX LAND TRUST: $500 → 7%THE CROSBY FUND FOR HAITIAN: $250 → 9%ESSEX LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $500 → 7%THE CROSBY FUND FOR HAITIAN: $250 → 9%CHILD FAMILY AGENCY: $250 → 7%IVORYTON PLAYHOUSE: $3k → 7%IVORYTON PLAYHOUSE: $1k → 7%IVORYTON PLAYHOUSE: $1k → 7%MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL: $3k → 7%MIDDLESEX HEALTH: $3k → 7%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLESEX C: $1k → 7%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLESEX C: $1k → 7%MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL: $620 → 7%MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL: $500 → 7%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLESEX C: $500 → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$77k · 26 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
11

Total granted

$77k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+236%

Still filing today

54%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHealthInternationalPhilanthropyOther

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

  • CA
    CONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $21k · revenue +23%
  • IP
    IVORYTON PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $5k · revenue +33%
  • MH
    MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL
    3× · 2023–2025 · $4k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • MH
    MIDDLESEX HEALTH
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • CF
    CHILD FAMILY AGENCY
    one grant, 2022 · $250
  • EW
    EAST WOODS SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $250 · revenue +13%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Connecticut Aeronautical Historical Association Inc

The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…

Arts & Culture
3
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
4
Essex County Club

Essex county club (the "club") is a private country club which has recreational programs including golf, tennis, paddle tennis, as well as a full service restaurant, bar, & function facilities.

5
New England Museum Association

New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.

6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
Essex Historical Society and Shipbuilding Museum Inc

Provide a center for education, preservation, and study of traditional essex shipbuilding and the community that has supported it for over 300 years. we value the skills, creativity, learning abilities, and connectedness to their…

Arts & Culture
8
Duxbury Rural & Historical Society Inc

The duxbury rural and historical society (drhs) strives to be a responsible steward of our historical buildings, museum objects, archives, and lands. we welcome all audiences to learn along with us, explore our collections, and interpret…

Arts & Culture
9
Emerson College

See schedule o.emerson college's mission is to educate and elevate extraordinary artists, communicators, scholars, and professionals for the betterment of humanity. we pursue this mission through world-class teaching, practice,…

Education
10
Longneck Manor Conservation Foundation

To create memorable guest experiences which promote actions to help save species, habitats, and the communities who share those same landscapes

Animals
11
Governors Island Corporation

The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…

Animals
12
Dutchess Land Conservancy Inc

Dutchess land conservancy (dlc) is dedicated to preserving the scenic, agricultural and environmental resources of dutchess county, new york, and the surrounding area. dlc, as a private non-profit land conservation organization, carries…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Florence Griswold Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is New York University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 56 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr12%5%5–10yr18%9%10–20yr18%18%20–35yr14%18%35–55yr20%50%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr18%23%10–20yr18%2%20–35yr14%10%35–55yr20%64%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/23
the rest of the field
10%
2,154/22,422

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

22 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 49 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
16/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST JOHN EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $11,550 · OtherST JOHN EPISCOPAL CHURCHMIDDLESEX HEALTH — $2,500 · OtherMIDDLESEX HEALTHCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLESEX C — $2,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLESEX CIndividual grant recipient — $1,075 · OtherTHE CROSBY FUND FOR HAITIAN — $1,000 · Other+26 more — $7,330 · Other+26 moreCONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $20,850 · EnvironmentCONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY IN…ESSEX LAND TRUST INC — $750 · Environment+1 more — $250 · EnvironmentSISTER CITIES ESSEX HAITI INC — $13,260 · InternationalSISTER CITIES ESSE…FLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM INC — $6,060 · Arts & CultureFLORENCE GRISWOL…IVORYTON PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureIVORYTON PLAYHOU…THE COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL INC — $500 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $250 · Arts & CultureESSEX LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC — $2,500 · EducationWellesley College — $1,150 · EducationMILTON ACADEMY — $1,000 · EducationEAST WOODS SCHOOL INC — $250 · Education+1 more — $100 · EducationMIDDLESEX HOSPITAL — $3,620 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $355 · HealthNETWORK FOR GOOD — $250 · Public Safety & DisasterGOFUNDMEORG — $160 · Philanthropy
Other$25,955Environment$21,850International$13,260Arts & Culture$11,810Education$5,000Health$3,975Public Safety & Disaster$250Philanthropy$160

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $20,850 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSISTER CITIES ESSEX HAITI INC — $13,260 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetFLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM INC — $6,060 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetIVORYTON PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMIDDLESEX HOSPITAL — $3,620 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetESSEX LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC — $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWellesley College — $1,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMILTON ACADEMY — $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetESSEX LAND TRUST INC — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetESSEX HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $725 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMUSICAL MASTERWORKS INC — $650 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL INC — $500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC — $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEAST WOODS SCHOOL INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG — $160 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND PEOPLES PROJECT — $155 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPBS FOUNDATION — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetESSEX YACHT CLUB INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHenry L Ferguson Museum — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 CONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds SISTER CITIES ESSEX HAITI INC
  • Who funds FLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM INC
  • Who funds IVORYTON PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL
  • Who funds ESSEX LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds Wellesley College
  • Who funds MILTON ACADEMY
  • Who funds ESSEX LAND TRUST INC
  • Who funds ESSEX HISTORICAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds MUSICAL MASTERWORKS INC
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH
  • Who funds THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC
  • Who funds EAST WOODS SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD
  • Who funds GOFUNDMEORG
  • Who funds ISLAND PEOPLES PROJECT
  • Who funds PBS FOUNDATION

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.

The Foxboro Foundation IncCT22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Foxboro Foundation Inc · Kitchings Family Foundation · Carlson Family Foundation · The Edward E Hood Jr Foundation · Community Foundation of Middlesex County Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Joanne E Masin Foundation · Mrb Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · S & H Foundation Inc · Paul Foundation Inc · Enid Storm Dwyer Foundation

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 Parkinson Family Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Florence Griswold Museum Inc2% of income from government
  • The Community Music School Inc1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College1% of income from government
  • Connecticut Audubon Society Inc1% of income from government
  • Middlesex Hospital0% of income from government
  • Milton Academy0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Parkinson Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Parkinson Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 49 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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