· Private foundation
Parsons 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KOKids on the Move Inc5× · 2019–2023 · $4k · revenue +78%
- TITHE INTERPRETER FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2024 · $1k · revenue +70%
Cornell University2× · 2017–2024 · $1k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- RSRising Star Outreach Incone grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue +4%
- RCRuth Center for Performing Artsone grant, 2024 · $3k
- BYBRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
To change the future for nature and humanity by conserving birds of prey worldwide.
The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
How this is measured
37 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. 37 of the 71 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Rising Star Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds Kids on the Move Inc ↗
- Who funds THE INTERPRETER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS ↗
- Who funds BLACK SWAMP BIRD OBSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DEEP CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN FIELD ORNITHOLOGISTS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · University Impact · The Community Foundation of Utah · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Parsons Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Parsons Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Deep Creek Volunteer Fire Company Inc: 74% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- The National Federation of the Blind: 2% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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