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The Bob & Renee Parsons Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$26M
Granted FY2024still arriving
55
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$10M
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.

Human Services$90MHealth$39MEducation$15MInternational$12MYouth Development$11MCrime & Legal$7.6MPublic Safety & Disaster$6.8MHousing & Shelter$2.9MOther$0
02FY2024 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $175k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+32 grants · $24M
$250,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Semper Fi America's Fund$10,000,000
Barrow Neurological Foundation$1,000,000
100 Club of Arizona$900,000
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE MT SINAI$800,000
Hope for Haiti$750,000
Girl Scouts AZ Cactus-Pine$750,000
University of California Berkeley$750,000
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Arizona$750,000
Local First Arizona Foundation$676,320
Boys Girls Club of the Valley$500,000
Team Rubicon$500,000
Barrow Neurological Foundation$500,000
University of Baltimore Foundation$499,125
University of Baltimore Foundation$480,091
100 Club of Arizona$450,000
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, $4.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Caitlyn Jenner Foundation Inc: $100k → 14%Huts for Vets: $50k → 7%Women Moving Millions: $25k → 17%Huts for Vets: $50k → 7%Women Moving Millions: $25k → 17%Huts for Vets: $35k → 7%Women Moving Millions: $25k → 17%Huts for Vets: $25k → 7%Women Moving Millions: $25k → 17%Women Moving Millions: $25k → 17%The Innocence Project: $50k → 17%Maggie's Place Inc: $279k → 11%Maggie's Place Inc: $101k → 11%Maggie's Place Inc: $59k → 11%Circle the City: $500k → 11%Hushabye Nursery: $800k → 11%Hushabye Nursery: $685k → 11%Circle the City: $250k → 11%Hushabye Nursery: $315k → 11%Hushabye Nursery: $250k → 11%Circle the City: $25k → 11%Aliento Education Fund: $125k → 11%Aliento Education Fund: $125k → 11%Aliento Education Fund: $25k → 11%Chrysalis: $250k → 11%Hushabye Nursery: $10k → 11%Chrysalis Shelter for Victims of Do: $250k → 11%Arizona Friends of Foster Children: $125k → 11%Arizona Friends of Foster Children: $75k → 11%Arizona Friends of Foster Children: $75k → 11%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
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
HI
MS
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$190M · 79 repeat orgs$6.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.

79 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

79
38

Total granted

$190M
$5.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+0%

Still filing today

70%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • SF
    SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND
    8× · 2017–2024 · $82M · revenue +56% · 28% of their budget
  • BN
    BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $8.3M · revenue +100%
  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $7.0M · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • HI
    HAWAII ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY SPCA
    one grant, 2022 · $1.5M · revenue -66%
  • HS
    HEAD STRONG PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue +85%
  • THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue +49%
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
Lodestar Charitable Foundation

To perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the arizona community foundation, an az nonprofit corporation, so long as the arizona community foundation, inc. remains a qualified organization.

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2
Arizona Family Health Partnership

To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone

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3
Arizona Wins

Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…

Civil Rights
4
American Council of Engineering Companies of Arizona

To assist member firms in achieving higher professional, ethical business and economic standards, enabling member firms to provide quality consulting and engineering services for their clients and the public.

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5
Arizona Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics

Azaap is committed to improving the health of arizona children and supporting the pediatric professionals who care for them.

Health
6
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
7
Vitalyst Health Foundation

To connect, support and inform efforts to improve the health of individuals and communities in arizona.

Health
8
Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce

Greater phoenix chamber of commerce (the chamber) catalyzes regional prosperity with forward-thinking public policy, intentional economic growth, and diverse, prepared talent.

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9
Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Foundation

Bringing together diverse voices to advance health and healthcare in arizona.

Health
10
Pro-Choice Arizona

Pro-Choice Arizona centers abolition and reproductive justice values to prioritize community needs. We advance reproductive equity, pregnancy and family justice, and abortion access for all folks living in Arizona through direct service…

Health
11
Arizona Center for Afterschool Excellence Inc

The arizona center for afterschool excellence is dedicated to the enhancement of child and youth development and educational achievement through quality afterschool programming.

Education
12
Home Matters to Arizona

Home matters to arizona is the first statewide home matters initiative focused on a new generation of affordable housing, connected communities, and healthier individuals, families, and economies. we add housing units while encouraging…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Arizona Inc; the most unlike its peers is Nyc Marine Corps Birthday Gala 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

85 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. 85 of the 122 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/85
Grantees still filing
56/85
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $81,717,000 · HealthSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUNDBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $8,328,809 · HealthBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATIONMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC: $6,994,740 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC+11 more: $8,714,185 · Health+11 more100 CLUB OF ARIZONA: $6,625,000 · Other100 CLUB OF ARIZONAICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE MT SINAI: $4,032,500 · OtherICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE MT SIN…University of California Berkeley: $3,750,000 · OtherUniversity of California Berkel…Girl Scouts AZ Cactus-Pine: $2,940,000 · OtherGirl Scouts AZ Cactus-PineBoys Girls Club of the Valley: $2,853,500 · OtherBoys Girls Club of Metro Phoenix: $2,360,148 · OtherGrand Canyon University GCU: $2,040,000 · OtherMAPS: $2,000,000 · OtherMCDOWELL SONORAN CONSERVANCY: $2,300,000 · Other+63 more: $24,858,821 · Other+63 moreUNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $4,257,169 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $2,952,000 · EducationHUALALAI OHANA FOUNDATION: $2,507,801 · EducationYEAR UP INC: $1,250,000 · EducationARIZONA CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $550,000 · EducationMake Way For Books: $500,000 · EducationJobs for Arizona's Graduates: $500,000 · Education+8 more: $1,045,000 · EducationFREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONA: $5,352,500 · Crime & LegalCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA: $1,200,000 · Crime & LegalNew Pathways For Youth: $375,000 · Crime & Legal+3 more: $198,600 · Crime & LegalHOPE FOR HAITI INC: $6,017,776 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA: $600,000 · InternationalTEAM RUBICON INC: $4,610,921 · Public Safety & Disaster+2 more: $150,000 · Public Safety & DisasterHUSHABYE NURSERY: $2,060,000 · Human ServicesCIRCLE THE CITY: $775,000 · Human ServicesChrysalis Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence Inc: $500,000 · Human ServicesMAGGIE'S PLACE INC: $439,000 · Human ServicesAliento Education Fund: $275,000 · Human ServicesArizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation: $275,000 · Human ServicesHuts for Vets: $160,000 · Human Services+3 more: $275,000 · Human Services
Health$105,754,734Other$53,759,969Education$13,561,970Crime & Legal$7,126,100International$6,617,776Public Safety & Disaster$4,760,921Human Services$4,759,000

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 budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $81,717,000 over 8y, 28% of budgetBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $8,328,809 over 8y, 6.3% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC: $6,994,740 over 8y, 16% of budget100 CLUB OF ARIZONA: $6,625,000 over 6y, 34% of budgetHOPE FOR HAITI INC: $6,017,776 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetFREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONA: $5,352,500 over 7y, 56% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $4,610,921 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $4,257,169 over 4y, 12% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $2,952,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHUALALAI OHANA FOUNDATION: $2,507,801 over 7y, 36% of budgetMCDOWELL SONORAN CONSERVANCY: $2,300,000 over 6y, 33% of budgetHUSHABYE NURSERY: $2,060,000 over 5y, 75% of budgetBRIGHTER WAY INSTITUTE: $1,774,375 over 6y, 14% of budgetUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC: $1,657,840 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetHAWAII ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY SPCA: $1,510,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,469,750 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNational Center for Youth Law: $1,450,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetA Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary: $1,350,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $1,250,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA: $1,200,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN CONNECTIONS INC: $1,120,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetGREATER BALTIMORE MEDICAL CENTER INC: $1,100,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHONORHEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,100,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetPRISMA COMMUNITY CARE (FKA SOUTHWEST CENTER HIV/AIDS INC): $1,085,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetLOCAL FIRST ARIZONA FOUNDATION: $1,056,531 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetHEAD STRONG PROJECT INC: $1,024,060 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHomeless Youth Connection Inc: $850,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetCIRCLE THE CITY: $775,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA: $600,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetARIZONA CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $550,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetCELEBRITY FIGHT NIGHT FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $500,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMake Way For Books: $500,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetChrysalis Shelter for Victims of Domestic Violence Inc: $500,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetSt Joseph the Worker: $500,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetJobs for Arizona's Graduates: $500,000 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetMAGGIE'S PLACE INC: $439,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budget1N10 INC: $435,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetNew Pathways For Youth: $375,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetELEVATE PHOENIX: $343,328 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetREAD BETTER BE BETTER: $300,000 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetAliento Education Fund: $275,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetArizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation: $275,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetTHE ARIZONA CHARTER SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION: $250,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS - ARIZONA CACTUS-PINE COUNCIL INC: $244,309 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetNYC MARINE CORPS BIRTHDAY GALA INC: $200,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetTHE WATER GENOME: $200,000 over 1y, 27% 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 SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
  • Who funds BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC ↗
  • Who funds 100 CLUB OF ARIZONA ↗
  • Who funds HOPE FOR HAITI INC ↗
  • Who funds FREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF ARIZONA ↗
  • Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HUALALAI OHANA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MCDOWELL SONORAN CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds HUSHABYE NURSERY ↗
  • Who funds BRIGHTER WAY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds UMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY SPCA ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds National Center for Youth Law ↗
  • Who funds A Sanctuary for Military Families Inc DBA Project Sanctuary ↗
  • Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILD CRISIS ARIZONA ↗
  • Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN CONNECTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BALTIMORE MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PRISMA COMMUNITY CARE (FKA SOUTHWEST CENTER HIV/AIDS INC) ↗
  • Who funds LOCAL FIRST ARIZONA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HEAD STRONG PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Homeless Youth Connection 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.

Arizona Community Fou…Virginia G Piper Char…Thunderbirds CharitiesNina Mason Pulliam Ch…The Diane and Bruce H…Valley of the Sun Uni…American Express Foun…The Foundation for Co…John F Long Foundatio…BHHS Legacy FoundationPhoenix Suns Charitie…Burton Family Foundat…
Arizona Community FoundationAZ53.7× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Thunderbirds Charities · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Valley of the Sun United Way · American Express Foundation · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · John F Long Foundation Inc · BHHS Legacy Foundation · Phoenix Suns Charities Inc · Burton Family 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 The Bob & Renee Parsons Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bob & Renee Parsons Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Art Council of Greater New Haven Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Adventist Healthcare Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Hope for Haiti Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Greater Baltimore Medical Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 122 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.

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home