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Steve and Diane Parrish Foundation at a glance

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Steve and Diane Parrish 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.

$168k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$71k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.4MArts & Culture$1.0MCrime & Legal$711kAnimals$324kHealth$51kHousing & Shelter$35kReligion$23kCivil Rights$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $71k
$3,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EARTHPLACE THE NATURE DISCOVERY CENTER INC$71,429
AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LEAGUE$25,000
ORCHESTRA LUMOS INC$25,000
CARLETON COLLEGE$25,000
HOUSE UNITED$7,500
TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC$5,000
UNDERDOG RESCUE INC$3,500
SOUTH UPTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION$2,000
NATIONAL DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY$1,500
WESTPORT WRITERS WORKSHOP I INC$1,000
FRIENDS OF THE FAIRFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY INC$500
CONNECTICUT DANCE SCHOOL INC$500
FAIRFIELD UNITED SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $710k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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%SAFE HORIZON INC: $250k → 17%SAFE HORIZON INC: $190k → 17%SAFE HORIZON INC: $150k → 17%SAFE HORIZON INC: $60k → 17%SAFE HORIZON INC: $60k → 17%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

MN
IL
NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
KS
DC
TX
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 30 repeat orgs$191k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
16

Total granted

$3.6M
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+37%

Still filing today

77%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k 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 & CultureHealthAnimalsEnvironmentHuman 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CC
    CARLETON COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +39%
  • OL
    ORCHESTRA LUMOS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $831k · revenue +35%
  • SH
    SAFE HORIZON INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $710k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • TK
    The Kansas University Endowment Associationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +93%
  • YU
    YALE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • ML
    MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +37%
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Connecticut Humane Society

The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.

Animals
3
Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc

Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…

Arts & Culture
4
Florence Griswold Museum Inc

The florence griswold museum seeks to promote a greater understanding of connecticut's contribution to american art and history through public exhibitions and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
5
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
6
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
7
University of Hartford

Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.

Education
8
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
9
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
10
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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11
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
12
Children's Museum of Oak Park

To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hcc Network 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

40 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. 40 of the 48 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
25/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CARLETON COLLEGE: $1,025,000 · EducationCARLETON COLLEGEWESTPORT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $50,000 · EducationUniversity of Chicago: $40,500 · Education+6 more: $59,000 · EducationORCHESTRA LUMOS INC: $831,000 · Arts & CultureORCHESTRA LUMOS INC+7 more: $54,150 · Arts & Culture+7 moreSAFE HORIZON INC: $710,000 · Human ServicesSAFE HORIZON INCYALE UNIVERSITY: $220,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYAMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LEAGUE - DBA LEAGUE OF: $195,000 · OtherAMERICAN SYMPHONY…HOUSE UNITED: $35,000 · OtherHOUSE UNITEDHOMES WITH HOPE: $35,000 · OtherHOMES WITH HOPEYALE UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · OtherGreen's Farms Church: $22,500 · Other+14 more: $63,550 · Other+14 moreJoybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation: $310,000 · AnimalsJoybound …UNDERDOG RESCUE INC: $13,500 · Animals+1 more: $600 · AnimalsEARTHPLACE INC: $71,429 · Environment+2 more: $1,700 · EnvironmentTRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $27,500 · HealthAUTISM FAMILIES CONNECTICUT INC: $3,500 · Health+2 more: $1,200 · Health
Education$1,174,500Arts & Culture$885,150Human Services$710,000Other$596,050Animals$324,100Environment$73,129Health$32,200

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 budgetCARLETON COLLEGE: $1,025,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetORCHESTRA LUMOS INC: $831,000 over 9y, 8.5% of budgetSAFE HORIZON INC: $710,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJoybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation: $310,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetEARTHPLACE INC: $71,429 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWESTPORT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $40,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOMES WITH HOPE: $35,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $27,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LEAGUE D/B/A LEAGUE OF AMERICAN ORCHESTRAS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNeighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc: $20,800 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHCC Network Inc: $17,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetUNDERDOG RESCUE INC: $13,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Uptown Neighborhood Association: $9,400 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FAIRFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY: $6,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetFRANKLIN CENTER: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWESTPORT WRITERS' WORKSHOP I INC: $4,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAUTISM FAMILIES CONNECTICUT INC: $3,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetOPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCAN DO CANINES: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION MINNESOTA INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetASPETUCK LAND TRUST: $1,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA FAIRFIELD MUSEUM: $1,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT BALLET SCHOOL: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSILVER HILL HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WRITING PROJECT CORPORATION: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT DANE RESCUE OF MN AND WI: $600 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFAIRFIELD UNITED SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRFIELD COUNTY CHILDREN'S CHOIR INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Cookie Cart: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTMAS WISH CT: $250 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $100 over 1y, 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.

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.

Fairfield County's Co…Connecticut Humanitie…The Ayco Charitable F…Newman's Own Foundati…Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Lundberg Family F…David and Eunice Bige…The James & Mary Elle…Howard & Katherine Ai…Elizabeth Raymond Amb…The Emily Hall Tremai…Synchrony Foundation
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT18.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Newman's Own Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Lundberg Family Foundation · David and Eunice Bigelow Foundation · The James & Mary Ellen Marpe Family Foundation · Howard & Katherine Aibel Foundation · Elizabeth Raymond Ambler Trust · The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation Inc · Synchrony 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 Steve and Diane Parrish Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Steve and Diane Parrish Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Homes With Hope: 28% of income from government
  • Aspetuck Land Trust: 28% of income from government
  • Operation Hope of Fairfield Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Connecticut Ballet School: 1% of income from government
  • Orchestra Lumos Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Fairfield Historical Society Dba Fairfield Museum: 1% of income from government
  • Connecticut Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Silver Hill Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get 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 · 0–75%
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.

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 48 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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