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Parnell Family 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.

$68k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
80%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$9,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$42,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 14
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$2.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 80% of the organizations Parnell Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationReligionCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther
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 arriving5$68k0%
FY20235$95k80%
FY20225$129k60%
FY20217$120k57%
FY20208$294k38%
FY20197$398k43%
FY20184$24k50%
FY201714$124kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$916kReligion$166kEnvironment$53kAnimals$27kInternational$19kHealth$12kHuman Services$7kCommunity Improvement$7kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Orcas Christian School Foundation$261,935424%
Bighorn River Alliance$53,14174%
Adventist Mountain Missions$45,8832n/a
Micah 6-8 Prison Ministries$31,3952n/a
Walla Walla University$24,00020%
Union College$16,73610%
Ocs Supporting Foundation$10,18721%
Loma Linda University Health$10,00010%
Orcas Community Resource Center$6,00022%
Orcas Island Lions Club Foundation$5,0001n/a
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All grantees of Parnell Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Orcas Christian School Foundation$261,935424%
Bighorn River Alliance$53,14174%
Adventist Mountain Missions$45,8832n/a
Micah 6-8 Prison Ministries$31,3952n/a
Walla Walla University$24,00020%
Union College$16,73610%
Ocs Supporting Foundation$10,18721%
Loma Linda University Health$10,00010%
Orcas Community Resource Center$6,00022%
Orcas Island Lions Club Foundation$5,0001n/a
Airhawks Flying Club$2,0002n/a
Orcas Island Chamber of Commerce$1,50011%
Dillon Amateur Hockey Association Inc$1,5001n/a
Orcas Island Community Church$1,0301n/a
Adventist World Aviation Inc$1,00010%
Orcas Family Health Center$1,00010%
Over the Hill Equine Rescue$1,0001n/a
Opal Community Land Trust$1,00010%

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($776k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Parnell Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOrcas Christian School Foundation: $261,935 over 4y, 24% of budgetBighorn River Alliance: $53,141 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetWalla Walla University: $24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnion College: $16,736 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOcs Supporting Foundation: $10,187 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLoma Linda University Health: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOrcas Community Resource Center: $6,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetOrcas Island Chamber of Commerce: $1,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAdventist World Aviation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOrcas Family Health Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOpal Community Land Trust: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 11.

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.

Orcas Island Community FoundationWA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orcas Island Community Foundation · Donald Family Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · 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.

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

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About Parnell Family Foundation

How much does Parnell Family Foundation give?
Parnell Family Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $67,837 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Parnell Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (73%), Religion (13%), Environment (4%).
Who are Parnell Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Orcas Christian School Foundation ($262k), Bighorn River Alliance ($53k), Adventist Mountain Missions ($46k).
Does Parnell Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Parnell Family Foundation 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.
Which funders back the same organizations as Parnell Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orcas Island Community Foundation, Donald Family Foundation, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
Where is Parnell Family Foundation based?
Parnell Family Foundation is based in WA.

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 33 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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