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Preston S and Barbara J Parish Foundation at a glance

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Preston S and Barbara J Parish 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.

$96k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$53k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$334kHuman Services$246kHealth$220kPhilanthropy$152kEducation$107kReligion$46kFood & Nutrition$44kEnvironment$43kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GILMORE INTERNATIONAL PIANO FESTIVAL$53,264
UNITED WAY OF BATTLE CREEK AND KALAMAZOO REGION$22,000
KALAMAZOO COLLEGE$10,000
WILLIAMS COLLEGE$5,000
WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY$5,000
WGVU PUBLIC MEDIA$656
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 (FY17–24, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SHERMAN LAKE YMCA OUTDOOR CENTER: $30k → 12%SHERMAN LAKE YMCA OUTDOOR CENTER: $25k → 12%SHERMAN LAKE YMCA OUTDOOR CENTER: $20k → 12%SHERMAN LAKE YMCA OUTDOOR CENTER: $20k → 12%SHERMAN LAKE YMCA OUTDOOR CENTER: $10k → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES: $6k → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES: $5k → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES: $5k → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES: $1k → 12%FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES: $500 → 12%KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S: $6k → 12%KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S: $6k → 12%KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S: $5k → 12%KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S: $500 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
NJ
CO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
FL
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$853k · 55 repeat orgs$211k to everyone else

55 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 51 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
48

Total granted

$853k
$157k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+101%

Still filing today

78%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k 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
EducationArts & CultureHealthAnimalsHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TK
    THE KALAMAZOO AVIATION HISTORY MUSEUM
    3× · 2021–2024 · $150k · revenue +50%
  • Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center
    5× · 2020–2024 · $105k · revenue +60%
  • UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN
    3× · 2020–2025 · $92k · revenue +92%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF THE BATTLE CREEK AND KALAMAZOO
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • ST
    ST TIMOTHY EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $31k
  • ST
    SAINT TIMOTHY EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
2
Land Conservancy of West Michigan

Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…

Environment
3
Michigan Science Center

The mission of the michigan science center is to inspire curious minds of all ages to discover, explore and appreciate science, technology, engineering and math in a creative, dynamic learning environment.

Education
4
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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5
Kalamazoo Foundation for Excellence

The mission of the kalamazoo foundation for excellence is to support the goals of the city of kalamazoo, fund aspirational investments in the city, and empower kalamazoo residents to achieve the lives they want for themselves and their…

Public Benefit
6
Saginaw County Chamber of Commerce

To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.

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7
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

Community Improvement
8
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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9
Kalamazoo Community Foundation

Kalamazoo community foundation's mission is to mobilize people, resources, and expertise to advance racial, social, and economic justice.

Philanthropy
10
Business Leaders for Michigan

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

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11
Kansas Wesleyan University

Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.

Education
12
Leelanau Conservancy

To conserve the land, water and scenic character of leelanau county, and to provide educational programs to develop an understanding and appreciation of leelanau county's natural heritage.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kalamazoo County Humane Society; the most unlike its peers is Genevieve and Donald S Gilmore Fdn. 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

67 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. 67 of the 111 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/67
Grantees still filing
55/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE KALAMAZOO AVIATION HISTORY MUSEUM: $150,000 · OtherTHE KALAMAZOO AVIATION HISTORY MUSEUMHERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 · OtherHERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO FOUNDATION INCGILMORE INTERNATIONAL PIANO FESTIVAL: $53,264 · OtherGILMORE INTERNATIONAL PIANO FESTIVALUNITED WAY OF THE BATTLE CREEK AND KALAMAZOO: $50,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF THE BATTLE CREEK AND KALAMAZOOIRVING S GILMORE INTERNATIONAL PIANO FESTIVAL: $33,500 · OtherST TIMOTHY EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $31,000 · OtherYWCA KALAMAZOO: $25,000 · Other+69 more: $227,756 · Other+69 moreMAYO CLINIC: $160,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN: $17,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOO…Bronson Health Foundation: $13,500 · HealthBronson Health Fo…+5 more: $4,150 · HealthSherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center: $105,000 · Human ServicesSherman Lake…FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC: $17,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY & CHI…KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S: $17,500 · Human ServicesKALAMAZOO CO…+1 more: $1,500 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN: $92,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $6,500 · PhilanthropyKALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $39,500 · Arts & CultureKalamazoo Institute of Arts: $16,000 · Arts & CultureFONTANA CHAMBER ARTS: $14,500 · Arts & CultureIRVING S GILMORE INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $2,650 · Arts & CultureKALAMAZOO COLLEGE: $30,000 · EducationWilliams College: $10,000 · EducationWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,500 · EducationHOLDERNESS SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationKALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $2,000 · EducationGULL LAKE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS FOUNDAT: $2,000 · Education+4 more: $5,000 · EducationKALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC: $22,500 · Food & NutritionMINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC: $19,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$635,520Health$195,150Human Services$141,500Philanthropy$98,500Arts & Culture$77,650Education$59,500Food & Nutrition$41,500

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 budgetMAYO CLINIC: $160,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KALAMAZOO AVIATION HISTORY MUSEUM: $150,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center: $105,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN: $92,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetKALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $39,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetKALAMAZOO COLLEGE: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC: $22,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC: $19,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN: $17,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC: $17,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S: $17,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetKalamazoo Institute of Arts: $16,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKalamazoo Nature Center: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFONTANA CHAMBER ARTS: $14,500 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetBronson Health Foundation: $13,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWilliams College: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKalamazoo Civic Theatre: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS: $8,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF KALAMAZOO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKALAMAZOO VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetIRVING S GILMORE INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOLDERNESS SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKALAMAZOO COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS HEART OF MICHIGAN: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MI: $3,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSAVE THE CHIMPS INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSING RESOURCES INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLAKESIDE FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBARRY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBinder Park Zoological Society Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KALAMAZOO: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKALAMAZOO VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SW MICHIGAN: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASCENSION BORGESS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKALAMAZOO JUNIOR SYMPHONY SOCIETY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGULL LAKE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS FOUNDAT: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF SW MICHIGAN: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBARRY COUNTY UNITED WAY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY-PAWLING SCHOOL CORPORATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds THE KALAMAZOO AVIATION HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds HERITAGE COMMUNITY OF KALAMAZOO FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
  • Who funds Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
  • Who funds MINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO COUNTY READY 4S ↗
  • Who funds Kalamazoo Institute of Arts ↗
  • Who funds Kalamazoo Nature Center ↗
  • Who funds FONTANA CHAMBER ARTS ↗
  • Who funds Bronson Health Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Williams College ↗
  • Who funds Kalamazoo Civic Theatre ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF KALAMAZOO ↗
  • Who funds KALAMAZOO VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds IRVING S GILMORE INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD ↗
  • Who funds HOLDERNESS SCHOOL ↗

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.

Kalamazoo Community F…Tyler-Little Family F…Irving S Gilmore Foun…Dorothy U Dalton Foun…Harold and Grace Upjo…Suzanne Upjohn Delano…The Burdick-Thorne Fo…Marvin and Rosalie Ok…John E Fetzer Institu…H P & Genevieve Conna…United Way of South C…WK Kellogg Foundation
Kalamazoo Community FoundationMI82.1× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · H P & Genevieve Connable Fund · United Way of South Central Michigan · WK Kellogg 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 Preston S and Barbara J Parish Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Preston S and Barbara J Parish Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Preston S and Barbara J Parish 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 111 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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