Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Parker Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $9k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2024
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 75%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $400
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 14
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $25k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 75% of the organizations The Parker Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 92% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationHealthHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 7 | $9k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $5k | 75% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $6k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $9k | 46% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $1k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $18k | n/a |
87% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Housing & Shelter$17kEducation$11kHealth$8kFood & Nutrition$6kHuman Services$730Arts & Culture$600Public Benefit$500Recreation & Sports$325Other$0
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elisha Project | $5,700 | 4 | 0% |
| Attleboro Scholarship Foundation I | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Open Arms Recovery Center | $1,925 | 1 | 0% |
| Rebeckha Lynn Whitefield Foundation | $1,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Brian Hamlin Jr Memorial Fund | $1,200 | 3 | 2% |
| Evergreen House Inc | $650 | 2 | 0% |
| Gold Beach Rotary Foundation | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| The Affinity House | $400 | 1 | n/a |
| Breakthrough T1d | $200 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($34k), not named here.
About The Parker Fund
- How much does The Parker Fund give?
- The Parker Fund reported 7 grants totaling $8,771 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 14 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does The Parker Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (36%), Education (23%), Health (16%).
- Who are The Parker Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Elisha Project ($6k), Attleboro Scholarship Foundation I ($2k), Open Arms Recovery Center ($2k).
- Does The Parker Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Parker Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Where is The Parker Fund based?
- The Parker Fund is based in MA.
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