· Private foundation
The Parker Fund
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, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ATTLEBORO HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,546 |
| THE ELISHA PROJECT | $1,500 |
| THE AFFINITY HOUSE | $400 |
| ATTLEBORO LACROSSE ASSOCIATION | $125 |
| BOSTON BRUINS FOUNDATION | $100 |
| GARFIELD SOCIAL CLUB | $100 |
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 (FY20–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $625 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTHE CLEAN LIVING HOUSE2× · 2019–2021 · $10k
- AHATTLEBORO HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $8k
- EPELISHA PROJECT4× · 2020–2024 · $6k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- ASATTLEBORO SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION Igraduatedone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +237%
- OAOPEN ARMS RECOVERY CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +61%
- RLRebeckha Lynn Whitefield Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +575%
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.
Drug addiction rehabilitation program
Assisting and housing females in recovery
Restore inmates and those addicted back in to society
provide funds to pay for individuals to spend 30 days in a rehabilitation facility for drug and or alcohol addiction 2 individuals benefited in 2024
Grace Recovery Services will educate the public about the value of recovery from substance abuse while providing resources for treatment
Provide second change housing for homeless.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 37 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
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Parker Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Parker Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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