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The Parsons Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA GREATER NEW YORK | $25,000 |
| SHULE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| DETERMINED TO BE A DOCTOR SOMEDAY | $10,000 |
| VIP COMMUNITY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MONMOUTH COUNTY | $10,000 |
| MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MUSIC MAKER RELIEF FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| DE LA SALLE ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| FIELDS 4 VALOR FARMS INC | $7,500 |
| ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI | $7,500 |
| LUNCH BREAK | $6,000 |
| NORTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF THE BLIND AT ALBANY | $5,000 |
| PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY | $5,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
43 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 8 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- DLDE LA SALLE ACADEMY8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +19%
- VIVOCATIONAL INSTRUCTION PROJECT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +287%
NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC2× · 2017–2018 · $60k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- ATAPOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue -14%
- AIAdmissionSquad Incone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -42%
- TLTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +66%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City Inc and the most unlike its peers is Semper True North Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
84 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. 84 of the 118 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds APOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds DE LA SALLE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds VOCATIONAL INSTRUCTION PROJECT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds SHULE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC MAKER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Semper True North Foundation ↗
- Who funds TASK FORCE PINEAPPLE INC ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AdmissionSquad Inc ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF THE BLIND AT ALBANY INC ↗
- Who funds Overcome Vision Loss Foundation ↗
- Who funds STUDIO IN A SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE HISTORYMAKERS ↗
- Who funds PREBLE STREET ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Fields 4 Valor Farms Inc ↗
- Who funds LUNCH BREAK INC ↗
- Who funds BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Ibm International Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
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 Parsons Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
- Lunch Break Inc — 4% of income from government
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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