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The John B Parsons Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$582k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$28,700
Largest grant, FY2025
$124,952
Organizations funded a year
7 to 9
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$12M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The John B Parsons Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthOther
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
FY2025still arriving10$582k20%
FY20248$448k0%
FY20239$449k11%
FY20228$449k13%
FY20217$584k0%
FY20207$392k0%
FY20197$339k0%
FY20187$338k0%
99% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$1.9MHealth$969kFood & Nutrition$635kHousing & Shelter$339kCommunity Improvement$5kReligion$250Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Housing Options & Planning Enterprises Inc$158,05293%
Coastal Hospice$156,06290%
Chesapeake Housing Mission Inc$156,040912%
Christian Shelter Incorporated$25,0001n/a
Stories Love Music Inc$22,500426%
Halo Incorporated$10,0001n/a

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.3M), not named here.

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.

Community Foundation of the Eastern ShorMD13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Eastern Shor · 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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How do I get to The John B Parsons Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The John B Parsons 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.

About The John B Parsons Foundation

How much does The John B Parsons Foundation give?
The John B Parsons Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $581,908 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The John B Parsons Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (49%), Health (25%), Food & Nutrition (16%).
Who are The John B Parsons Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Housing Options & Planning Enterprises Inc ($158k), Coastal Hospice ($156k), Chesapeake Housing Mission Inc ($156k).
Does The John B Parsons Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The John B Parsons Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The John B Parsons Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of the Eastern Shor, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The John B Parsons Foundation based?
The John B Parsons Foundation is based in MD.

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 11 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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