· Private foundation
The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $410k
- $50k–250k22 grants · $2.2M
- $250k+16 grants · $6.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | $1,000,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $750,000 |
| CROSS-OVER MINISTRY | $605,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF RICHMOND | $500,000 |
| VIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE | $500,000 |
| BETTER HOUSING COALITION | $500,000 |
| LIBERATION VETERAN SERVICES INC | $500,000 |
| CARITAS | $365,000 |
| COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG FOUNDATION | $320,000 |
| HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE | $300,000 |
| VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC | $300,000 |
| BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE | $250,000 |
| VERITAS SCHOOL | $250,000 |
| PCS FOR PEOPLE | $250,000 |
| VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF HISTORY & CULTURE | $250,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $4.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 93%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
66 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BHBETTER HOUSING COALITION3× · 2020–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +186%
- NRNEXTUP RVA7× · 2018–2024 · $835k · revenue +102%
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF RICHMOND2× · 2023–2024 · $750k · revenue +144%
Funded once
- LGLEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INCone grant, 2023 · $750k · revenue -1%
- SJST JOSEPH'S VILLAgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $750k · revenue +27%
- SMSCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIAone grant, 2023 · $510k
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.
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.
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
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The richmond symphony performs, teaches and champions music to inspire and unite our communities.
The virginia association of museums is a statewide network serving the museum community. the association's mission statement is "the virginia association of museums helps our museum community succeed".
To use the power of media to educate, entertain and inspire, using public television and public radio to make a positive impact on the communities throughout central virginia, charlottesville, the shenandoah valley, the northern neck and…
New schools for virginia works with parents, students, educators and the community to improve educational outcomes by designing new schools and by supporting existing schools to improve outcomes.
To use policy, research, and analysis to advance the well-being of Virginia communities, and improve the economic security and social opportunities of all Virginians.
Chamberrva is the trusted voice for modern business in the richmond virginia region. we are change agents, rallying to do the hard things that will create a more connected, prosperous, health and equitable community.
Vcn is a facilitator of strategic action, a resource for network partners statewide, and a constant preservation presence in richmond. playing a unique role in virginia's conservation community, vcn helps the community speak with one…
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
The mission of vt-arc is to extend the impact of the virginia tech research and innovation enterprise, delivering superior analytic and technology solutions to government and non-government customers.
How this is measured
244 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 244 of the 332 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 BETTER HOUSING COALITION ↗
- Who funds CARITAS ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NEXTUP RVA ↗
- Who funds LEWIS GINTER BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S VILLA ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
- Who funds THE VALENTINE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF VA ANTIQUITIES ↗
- Who funds SupportWorks Housing ↗
- Who funds ELDERHOMES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Cristo Rey Richmond High School Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds ST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769) ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SHELTERING ARMS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LIBERATION VETERAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL REGION LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE FDN ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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