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Parley Foundation

To develop, organize, and implement various "parley" conferences. These conferences are designed to facilitate discussion and awareness of various topics related to the health of the oceans and protection and conservation efforts.

$132k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Itemized grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2022
75%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2024
$125k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 4
FY2018 to FY2022
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$192k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 75% of the organizations Parley Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 73% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $132k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
EnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving3$125k67%
FY20224$182k75%
FY20212$185k50%
FY20202$60k100%
FY20182$135kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Environment$380kAnimals$100kPhilanthropy$62kArts & Culture$56kEducation$50kScience & Tech$25kHuman Services$14k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Oceanic Preservation Society$185,00028%
Sustainable Coastlines Hawai'I$150,00036%
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society$100,00011%
Blue Ocean Foundation$62,4691n/a
Smithsonian Institution$55,55510%
Parley South Africia$50,0001n/a
Earth League International$35,00016%
Mega Lab$25,000131%
Social Spin Foundation$13,99916%
Protect Our Winters$10,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Parley Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOceanic Preservation Society: $185,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetSustainable Coastlines Hawai'I: $150,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetSea Shepherd Conservation Society: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSmithsonian Institution: $55,555 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEarth League International: $35,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetMega Lab: $25,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetSocial Spin Foundation: $13,999 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetProtect Our Winters: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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.

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About Parley Foundation

How much does Parley Foundation give?
Parley Foundation reported 3 itemized grants totaling $125,000, out of $132,245 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2022.
What does Parley Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (55%), Animals (15%), Philanthropy (9%).
Who are Parley Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Oceanic Preservation Society ($185k), Sustainable Coastlines Hawai'I ($150k), Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ($100k).
Does Parley Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Parley Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Parley Foundation based?
Parley Foundation is based in NY.

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 10 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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