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The Mary Parker Foundation 157823-000

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.

$7.2M
Granted FY2023
44
Grants FY2023
—
States reached
$750k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Science & Tech$3.0MHealth$1.5MHousing & Shelter$1.5MEducation$1.3MArts & Culture$857kPhilanthropy$745kYouth Development$496kHuman Services$271kOther$0
02FY2023 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 44 grants below total $6,183,406 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,233,406 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,050,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k14 grants · $371k
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+11 grants · $4.1M
$75,000
Median grant
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States reached
$118M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Help to Home, Inc.$750,000
The Roskamp Institute, Inc.$500,000
Second Heart Homes$408,000
Centerstone of Florida, Inc.$400,000
University of Florida Foundation$350,000
State College of Florida Foundation Inc.$300,000
Art League of Manatee County$300,000
Manatee Community Foundation Inc.$290,000
Manatee Community Foundation$280,000
Pace Center for Girls - Manatee$250,000
Bishop Museum of Science and Nature Inc.$250,000
Community Coalition on Homelessness$192,000
Manatee Education Foundation Inc.$175,000
American Cancer Society$156,000
American Cancer Society, Inc$156,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COMMUNITY HAVEN FOR ADULTS AND CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES: $8k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.9M · 9 repeat orgs$4.3M to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
11

Total granted

$4.9M
$96k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+61%

Still filing today

100%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
HealthEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $3.0M · revenue +129%
  • BM
    BISHOP MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND NATURE INC
    2× · 2020–2023 · $450k · revenue +99%
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2020–2023 · $450k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • TS
    TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN OF FLORIDA
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • Community Haven For Adults And Children With Disabilities Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +61%
  • AA
    ALZHEIMER'S ASSOC-FL GULF COAST CHAPTER
    one grant, 2020 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Florida Center for Early Childhood Inc

The florida center supports the healthy development of young children, specializing in those with delays, disabilities or mental health challenges. our mission- "to help build and foster strong families and expand the potential of young…

Human Services
2
Safe Children Coalition Inc

The safe children coalition's mission is to protect children and youth, strengthen families, and build community.

Human Services
3
Suncoast Workforce Board Inc

The organization's mission is to identify and invest in workforce development solutions to meet the needs of manatee and sarasota counties.

Employment
4
Suncoast Center Inc

For 80 years, suncoast center, inc. has held true to its mission of "strengthening, protecting, and restoring lives for a healthy community" by providing a comprehensive range of evidence-based services that address emotional wellness,…

Health
5
Child Protection Center Inc

The mission of the child protection center, inc. is the prevention, intervention and treatment of child abuse. we envision a community where children are safe from abuse and free to thrive. to successfully address the issue of child abuse,…

Crime & Legal
6
Suncoast Partnership to End Homelessness

Lead agency in the community for providers of homeless/prevention services in manatee/sarasota. responsible to plan strategies with community partners, assist with grants, educate the public, advocate with local leadership, administer the…

Human Services
7
Marriage Works Inc Power

Marriage works mission is to build strong families on florida's suncoast, one marriage at a time, through education and coaching that teach the skills needed for healthy, lifelong relationships.

Human Services
8
Take Stock in Children of Manatee County Inc

The organization focuses on providing unique college mentoring and scholarship opportunities for low-income and at-risk students to help them end the cylce of poverty through education. students are offered college scholarships and caring…

Philanthropy
9
Healthy Start Coalition of Seminole

Prenatal & infant health care. to establish a system that guarantees that all women have access to prenatal care and that all infants have access to services that promote normal growth and development.

Human Services
10
Bay Area Youth Services Inc

Bays provides counseling & guidance to the youth of florida and provides services necessary to aid troubled youth & their families. bays partners with individuals, families, and communities to inspire change, growth, & success.

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11
Community News Collaborative Inc

Our team of watchdog and investigative journalists deliver depth not by generating daily headlines but by strategically focusing our reporting power where we can get maximum impact. we will do this in several ways: original journalism: we…

Education
12
Florida Research Center for Agricultural Sustainability Inc
Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Manatee Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Manatee River Youth Sailing Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr17%5%5–10yr21%15%10–20yr17%23%20–35yr11%35%35–55yr11%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr17%6%5–10yr21%8%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr11%48%35–55yr11%16%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/46
the rest of the field
14%
601/4,168

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 54 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/46
Grantees still filing
33/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC — $3,000,000 · OtherMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INCTHE ART LEAGUE OF MANATEE COUNTY D/B/A ARTCENTER MANATEE — $300,000 · OtherTHE ART LEAGUE OF MANATEE COUNTY D/B/A ARTCENTER M…MANATEE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $175,000 · OtherPACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC — $250,000 · OtherPACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC+23 more — $683,892 · Other+23 moreThe Roskamp Institute Inc — $500,000 · HealthThe Roskamp Insti…CENTERSTONE OF FLORIDA INC — $405,000 · HealthCENTERSTONE OF FL…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $312,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER S…SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · HealthSARASOTA MEMORIAL…TIDEWELL FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 · HealthEaster Seals Southwest Florida Inc — $55,000 · Health+3 more — $48,000 · HealthTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $450,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERS…The State College of Florida Foundation Inc — $300,000 · EducationThe State C…RINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC — $150,000 · EducationRINGLING CO…VISIBLE MEN ACADEMY INC — $75,000 · EducationVISIBLE MEN…EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF MANATEE COUNTY INC — $50,000 · EducationHelp To Home Inc — $750,000 · Human ServicesHelp To H…NAMI SARASOTA AND MANATEE COUNTIES INC — $80,900 · Human ServicesNAMI SARA…+2 more — $27,500 · Human ServicesMANATEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $620,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC — $105,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $20,000 · PhilanthropySECOND HEART HOMES INC — $408,000 · Housing & ShelterCommunity Coalition on Homelessness dba Turning Points — $337,000 · Housing & ShelterBISHOP MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND NATURE INC — $450,000 · Arts & CultureFlorida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra — $50,000 · Arts & CultureSarasota Contemporary Dance Inc — $32,314 · Arts & CultureREFLECTIONS OF MANATEE INC — $25,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$4,408,892Health$1,495,000Education$1,025,000Human Services$858,400Philanthropy$745,000Housing & Shelter$745,000Arts & Culture$557,314

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC — $3,000,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetHelp To Home Inc — $750,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetMANATEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $620,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetThe Roskamp Institute Inc — $500,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetBISHOP MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND NATURE INC — $450,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $450,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSECOND HEART HOMES INC — $408,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetCENTERSTONE OF FLORIDA INC — $405,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCommunity Coalition on Homelessness dba Turning Points — $337,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $312,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ART LEAGUE OF MANATEE COUNTY D/B/A ARTCENTER MANATEE — $300,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetThe State College of Florida Foundation Inc — $300,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetPACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMANATEE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $175,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetRINGLING COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN INC — $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC — $105,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNAMI SARASOTA AND MANATEE COUNTIES INC — $80,900 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetMANATEE COUNTY GIRLS CLUB INC — $80,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetVISIBLE MEN ACADEMY INC — $75,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetTIDEWELL FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMANATEE RIVER YOUTH SAILING INC — $70,000 over 2y, 50% of budgetLITERACY COUNCIL OF MANATEE COUNTY — $60,703 over 1y, 31% of budgetEaster Seals Southwest Florida Inc — $55,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHope Family Services Inc — $53,625 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetYMCA OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEARLY LEARNING COALITION OF MANATEE COUNTY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFlorida West Coast Symphony Inc dba Sarasota Orchestra — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetForty Carrots of Sarasota Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MANATEE COUNTYINC — $40,700 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMANA-SOTA LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC — $38,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHealthy Teens Inc — $35,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS PLUS OF MANATEE INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSarasota Contemporary Dance Inc — $32,314 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetManatee Children's Services Inc — $27,829 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE SUN COAST INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAMARITAN COUNSELING SERVICES OF THE GULF COAST INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetALSO FOR GAY YOUTH INC — $20,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSTILLPOINT MISSION INC — $17,500 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetCommunity Haven For Adults And Children With Disabilities Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWe Care Manatee Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHONOR SANCTUARY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEURO CHALLENGE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINSTRIDE THERAPY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundat…Manatee Community Fou…William G and Marie S…Charles & Margery Bar…Gulf Coast Community …The Louis and Gloria …Msc Foundation IncWilson - Wood Foundat…United Way Suncoast I…Edward E & Lillian H …Publix Super Markets …Annette J Hagens Memo…
The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co IncFL77.2× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · William G and Marie Selby Foundation Inc · Charles & Margery Barancik Foundation Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trust · Msc Foundation Inc · Wilson - Wood Foundation Inc · United Way Suncoast Inc · Edward E & Lillian H Bishop Fdn 007087-000 · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Annette J Hagens Memorial Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Mary Parker Foundation 157823-000 funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Centerstone of Florida Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Bishop Museum of Science and Nature Inc — 2% of income from government
  • United Way Suncoast Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

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How do I get to The Mary Parker Foundation 157823-000?

Find your warmest path to The Mary Parker Foundation 157823-000 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 54 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $8.1M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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