Virginia · Private foundation
The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $9.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 71
- Grants FY2024
- 76
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 53%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 51 to 76
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $138M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 53% of the organizations The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 70% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 70 | $9.2M | 40% |
| FY2023 | 76 | $7.1M | 53% |
| FY2022 | 71 | $7.2M | 62% |
| FY2021 | 51 | $5.9M | 59% |
| FY2020 | 53 | $6.8M | 74% |
| FY2019 | 64 | $8.3M | 78% |
| FY2018 | 54 | $7.7M | 70% |
| FY2017 | 61 | $7.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Better Housing Coalition | $2,100,000 | 3 | 17% |
| Caritas | $1,395,000 | 5 | 7% |
| Virginia Historical Society | $1,000,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Virginia Museum of Fine Arts | $1,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Nextup Rva | $835,000 | 7 | 17% |
| Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Inc | $750,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of Richmond | $750,000 | 2 | 9% |
| St Joseph's Villa | $750,000 | 1 | 4% |
| The American Civil War Museum | $750,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Colonial Williamsburg Foundation | $655,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 251 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 79 recipients with no EIN on record ($16M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 15 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Robins Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · The Pauley Family Foundation · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Townebank Foundation · Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · The William H - John G - Emma Scott Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation
- How much does The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation give?
- The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation reported 71 grants totaling $9,537,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 76 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (23%), Arts & Culture (22%), Housing & Shelter (12%).
- Who are The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Better Housing Coalition ($2.1M), Caritas ($1.4M), Virginia Historical Society ($1.0M).
- Does The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation Inc, Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation, Herndon Foundation.
- Where is The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation based?
- The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation is based in VA.
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