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Parks 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.

$242k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0184% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$719kFood & Nutrition$315kInternational$261kAnimals$60kArts & Culture$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$16kEducation$10kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$150,000
Newborns in Need - South Central AK$30,000
Vancouver Symphony$30,000
Habitat for Humanity$10,000
Alaska Airmens Association$10,000
Alaska Youth Orchestra$10,000
Individual grant recipient$1,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $188k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Tillamook County Family YMCA: $188k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 6 repeat orgs$592k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
8

Total granted

$1.0M
$380k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+7%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $212k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureCrime & LegalAnimalsPublic Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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

  • SA
    Salvation Army
    4× · 2018–2022 · $501k
  • SD
    SUNSHINE DIVISION INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $220k · revenue 0%
  • HA
    HOPE AND HEALTH INTERNATIONAL INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $184k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • TC
    TILLAMOOK COUNTY FAMILY YMCAgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $188k · revenue +253%
  • TA
    TILLAMOOK ANGLERS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $55k · revenue -20%
  • AH
    Alaska Health Project South Sudan
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
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.

1
Food Bank of Alaska

FBA believes no one deserves to be hungry. We are dedicated to eliminating hunger in Alaska by obtaining and providing food to partner agencies and through anti-hunger leadership.

Food & Nutrition
2
Aleutia Inc

Aleutia and its fishermen will effectively harvest the finest alaskan seafood available. aleutia will work on the behalf of all its members to further develop and promote the regional brand, aleutia, to facilitate extensive marketing…

Food & Nutrition
3
Alaska Rural Electric Cooperative Association Educational Foundation Inc
Environment
4
Alaska Longline Fishermens Association

Alfa is an association of independent longline fishermen who are committed to continuing the sustainable harvest of sablefish, halibut, and groundfish, while supporting healthy marine ecosystems and strong coastal communities.

Community Improvement
5
Southeast Alaska Food Bank

The mission of the Southeast Alaska Food Bank is to provide nutritious food for those who are without, serving as a community bridge between those who want to help and those who are in need.

Food & Nutrition
6
Stilly-Snohomish Fisheries Enhancement Task Force Dba Sound Salmon Solutions

To ensure the future of salmon in the stillaguamish and snohomish river basins and island county watersheds.

Animals
7
Alaska Sustainability Initiative

To advance solutions that build the resilience and sustainability of Alaska, for its current and future residents and the natural systems upon which they depend.

Animals
8
Port Angeles Food Bank

Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.

Food & Nutrition
9
Northern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association Inc

To increase salmon returns to benefit commercial and other common property useres in northern southeast alaska.

Animals
10
Anchorage Affordable Housing and

To expand and preserve year-round rental opportunities that are affordable to moderate, low, and very low-income households to foster a welcoming environment for demographically and socio-economically diverse populations in Anchorage, AK.

Housing & Shelter
11
Alaska Aviation Museum Endowment

The mission of the Alaska Aviation Museum Endowment is to enhance and ensure the financial security of the Alaska Aviation Museum now and for future generations.

Arts & Culture
12
Alaska Solstice Search Dogs

Assd trains and deploys highly qualified and certified search dog teams to support and assist law enforcement and other government agencies in the search, rescue, and recovery of missing persons.

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Food Bank; the most unlike its peers is Rockaway Beach Volunteer Firefighters 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

11 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. 11 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Salvation Army: $501,000 · OtherSalvation ArmyIndividual grant recipient: $150,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientVancouver Symphony: $60,000 · OtherVancouver SymphonyAlaska Health Project South Sudan: $50,000 · OtherAlaska Health Project South SudanOREGON FOOD BANK: $40,000 · Other+8 more: $104,500 · Other+8 moreSUNSHINE DIVISION INC: $220,000 · Crime & LegalSUNSHINE DIVISI…TILLAMOOK COUNTY FAMILY YMCA: $188,074 · Human ServicesTILLAMOOK COU…HOPE AND HEALTH INTERNATIONAL INC: $184,000 · InternationalHOPE AND HEA…TILLAMOOK ANGLERS INC: $55,000 · AnimalsMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC: $55,000 · Food & NutritionANCHORAGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $10,000 · Arts & CultureAlaska Youth Orchestras: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$905,500Crime & Legal$220,000Human Services$188,074International$184,000Animals$55,000Food & Nutrition$55,000Arts & Culture$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSUNSHINE DIVISION INC: $220,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTILLAMOOK COUNTY FAMILY YMCA: $188,074 over 1y, 12% of budgetHOPE AND HEALTH INTERNATIONAL INC: $184,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetTILLAMOOK ANGLERS INC: $55,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - ANCHORAGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetANCHORAGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetALASKA AIRMENS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAlaska Youth Orchestras: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budget
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.

Parks Education Found…The Alaska Community …Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Parks Education FoundationAK15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Parks Education Foundation · The Alaska Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Parks Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Parks Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Parks Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Parks Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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