Delaware · Private foundation
The Parallax Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
52% of The Parallax Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Stanislaus Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $750,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 7
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations The Parallax Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $697k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $230k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $115k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $675k | 80% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $375k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modesto Children's Museum | $500,000 | 1 | 19% |
| Policylink | $350,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Global Fund for a New Economy Inc | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lift Inc | $125,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Friends of the Modesto Library | $100,000 | 2 | 6% |
| California Pacific Medical Center Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Liberation Ventures Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Save Mart Cares | $100,000 | 1 | 16% |
| Oakland Promise | $80,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Urban Habitat Program | $75,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 17 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modesto Children's Museum | $500,000 | 1 | 19% |
| Policylink | $350,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Global Fund for a New Economy Inc | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lift Inc | $125,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Friends of the Modesto Library | $100,000 | 2 | 6% |
| California Pacific Medical Center Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Liberation Ventures Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Save Mart Cares | $100,000 | 1 | 16% |
| Oakland Promise | $80,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Urban Habitat Program | $75,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The Philanthropy Workshop Inc Dba Forward Global | $63,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Liberation in a Generation | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| World Liberty Congress Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Gallo Center for the Arts Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Childrens Crisis Center of Stanislaus County | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Big Valley Grace Community Church & Big Valley Christian School | $7,500 | 3 | n/a |
| McHenry Museum & Historical Society | $5,000 | 1 | 8% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($200k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Parallax Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 San Francisco Foundation · Stanislaus Community Foundation · Mary Stuart Rogers Foundation · Reed Foundation · Policylink · East Bay Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Parallax Foundation
- How much does The Parallax Foundation give?
- The Parallax Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $1,457,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 7 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The Parallax Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (64%), Arts & Culture (9%), Education (7%).
- Who are The Parallax Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Modesto Children's Museum ($500k), Policylink ($350k), Global Fund for a New Economy Inc ($150k).
- Does The Parallax Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Parallax Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Parallax Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Stanislaus Community Foundation, Mary Stuart Rogers Foundation.
- Where is The Parallax Foundation based?
- The Parallax Foundation is based in DE.
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