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The John C and Carolyn Noonan Parmer Private Foundation at a glance

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The John C and Carolyn Noonan Parmer Private Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$200k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$2.1MEducation$1.5MPhilanthropy$960kHuman Services$953kFood & Nutrition$600kHousing & Shelter$435kPublic Safety & Disaster$165kHealth$120kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k15 grants · $320k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
$30,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION$200,000
DE LA SALLE INSTITUTE$150,000
CATHOLIC THEOLOGICAL UNION$125,000
ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$100,000
MOBILE LOAVES AND FISHES$100,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CHICAGO$100,000
DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY$100,000
FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES$70,000
SINSINAWA DOMINICAN SISTERS$50,000
DEBORAH'S PLACE$50,000
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY$50,000
CHILDREN OF PEACE SCHOOL$30,000
CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION FOR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL$30,000
BETHANY HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY$25,000
THE HOLDSWORTH CENTER$25,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $570k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $10k → 11%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $10k → 11%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $10k → 11%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $10k → 11%TEXAS PARENT TO PARENT: $5k → 10%MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $200k → 14%MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $175k → 14%LITTLE BROTHERS- FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY: $5k → 14%LITTLE BROTHERS- FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY: $5k → 14%LITTLE BROTHERS- FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY: $5k → 14%LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY: $5k → 14%ST JOSEPH'S HOME FOR THE ELDERLY: $5k → 14%BETHANY HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY: $50k → 14%BETHANY HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY: $25k → 14%BETHANY HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY: $25k → 14%BETHANY HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY: $25k → 14%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
WI
MI
NJ
CA
CO
MD
AZ
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.9M · 37 repeat orgs$232k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
12

Total granted

$5.9M
$172k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+10%

Still filing today

49%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterReligionFood & NutritionHealthOther
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

  • MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $375k · revenue +52%
  • ML
    MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $325k · revenue +160%
  • GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • EE
    Estrella Educational Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +10%
  • DP
    DEBORAH'S PLACE CHICAGO
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • CF
    CARING FOR CAMBODIA INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -50%
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.

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St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

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2
Misericordia Home

The mission of misericordia home is to support children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities who choose our community by providing the highest quality residential, training, and employment services. we provide the…

Human Services
3
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
4
The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame

The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)

Education
5
College of St Scholastica Inc

Shaped by the catholic benedictine heritage, the college of st. scholastica provides intellectual and moral preparation for responsible living and meaningful work. in conjunction with this mission statement, the college's vision statement…

Education
6
Concordia University Chicago

Steadfast in jesus christ as revealed in the holy scriptures, concordia university chicago promotes academic rigor in its liberal arts and professional programs; grounds students in objective truth, integrity, and excellence; and practices…

Education
7
Texas Wesleyan University

Texas wesleyan university, guided by its deep methodist heritage, provides transformational learning experiences and research opportunities to a diverse group of students to develop their full potential as individuals and as members of the…

Education
8
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.

Education
9
St Catherine University

We educate women to lead and influence. we educate at all degree levels through valuing and integrating the liberal arts and professional education within the catholic intellectual tradition, see schedule oemphasizing scholarly inquiry and…

Education
10
Saint John's University

To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.

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11
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
12
The College Houses

To serve as a transformative environment that empowers students through democratic, cooperative living. we provide affordable housing to foster community, support education, and promote personal development and well-being.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Misericordia Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Women's Ordination Conference. 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

24 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. 24 of the 53 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
17/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MISERICORDIA HEART OF MERCY: $725,000 · OtherMISERICORDIA HEART OF MERCYCATHOLIC THEOLOGICAL UNION: $525,000 · OtherCATHOLIC THEOLOGICAL UNIONDE LASALLE INSTITUTE: $450,000 · OtherDE LASALLE INSTITUTESINSINAWA DOMINICAN SISTERS: $425,000 · OtherSINSINAWA DOMINICAN SISTERSCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CHICAGO: $300,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CHICAGOCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES: $165,000 · Other+27 more: $1,169,500 · Other+27 moreThe Chicago Community Trust: $950,000 · PhilanthropyThe Chicago Comm…THE HOLDSWORTH CENTER: $70,000 · PhilanthropyTHE HOLDSWORTH C…ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $300,000 · EducationST MARYS UN…DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY: $245,000 · EducationDOMINICAN U…Cristo Rey St Martin College Prep: $85,000 · EducationCristo Rey …SPARKFORCE: $50,000 · EducationSPARKFORCEEstrella Educational Foundation: $50,000 · EducationEstrella Ed…+1 more: $9,500 · EducationMISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $375,000 · Human ServicesMISERICOR…Bethany House of Hospitality: $125,000 · Human ServicesBethany H…THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $40,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDG…LITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY: $20,000 · Human Services+2 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesDEBORAH'S PLACE: $200,000 · Housing & ShelterFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC: $145,000 · Housing & ShelterREBUILDING TOGETHER NORTH SUBURBAN CHICAGO: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $325,000 · Religion+1 more: $5,000 · ReligionGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $250,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$3,759,500Philanthropy$1,020,000Education$739,500Human Services$570,000Housing & Shelter$375,000Religion$330,000Food & Nutrition$250,000

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 budgetThe Chicago Community Trust: $950,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMISERICORDIA FOUNDATION: $375,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $325,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $300,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDOMINICAN UNIVERSITY: $245,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDEBORAH'S PLACE: $200,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC: $145,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBethany House of Hospitality: $125,000 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S ASSOC FOR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL (: $105,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTHE GREAT SPRINGS PROJECT INC (AUDIT): $70,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE HOLDSWORTH CENTER: $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSPARKFORCE: $50,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetEstrella Educational Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER NORTH SUBURBAN CHICAGO: $30,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetCARING FOR CAMBODIA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCARITAS OF AUSTIN: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MICHIGAN SHORES CLUB FOUNDATION: $9,500 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetWOMEN'S ORDINATION CONFERENCE: $5,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR PALATINE ST JOSEPHS HOME FOR THE ELDERLY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 The Chicago Community Trust ↗
  • Who funds MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
  • Who funds ST MARYS UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
  • Who funds DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DEBORAH'S PLACE ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Bethany House of Hospitality ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S ASSOC FOR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL ( ↗
  • Who funds Cristo Rey St Martin College Prep ↗
  • Who funds THE GREAT SPRINGS PROJECT INC (AUDIT) ↗
  • Who funds THE HOLDSWORTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SPARKFORCE ↗
  • Who funds Estrella Educational Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER NORTH SUBURBAN CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds CARING FOR CAMBODIA INC ↗
  • Who funds CARITAS OF AUSTIN ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY ↗

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.

Helen V Brach Foundat…The Chicago Community…John D and Catherine …AbbVie FoundationVanguard Charitable E…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodThe Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…
Helen V Brach FoundationIL15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Helen V Brach Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment 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 John C and Carolyn Noonan Parmer Private Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John C and Carolyn Noonan Parmer Private Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report 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 53 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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