How much does The Parsons Family Foundation give?

The Parsons Family Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $194,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 42 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Parsons Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (26%), Education (18%), Health (13%).

Who are The Parsons Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Apollo Theater Foundation Inc ($250k), Teach for America Inc ($128k), De la Salle Academy ($80k).

Does The Parsons Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Parsons Family 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 Parsons Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Ayco Charitable Foundation, Triangle Community Foundation Inc.

Where is The Parsons Family Foundation based?

The Parsons Family Foundation is based in NY.

The Parsons Family Foundation

The Parsons Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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.

$195k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$522kEducation$361kHealth$260kHuman Services$197kFood & Nutrition$71kCrime & Legal$70kInternational$67kPublic Benefit$60kOther$0

02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k15 grants · $75k
$10k–50k9 grants · $120k

$6,000

Median grant

States reached

$418k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION	$25,000
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA GREATER NEW YORK	$25,000
VIP COMMUNITY SERVICES	$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MONMOUTH COUNTY	$10,000
SHULE FOUNDATION	$10,000
MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION	$10,000
DETERMINED TO BE A DOCTOR SOMEDAY	$10,000
DE LA SALLE ACADEMY	$10,000
MUSIC MAKER RELIEF FOUNDATION	$10,000
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI	$7,500
FIELDS 4 VALOR FARMS INC	$7,500
LUNCH BREAK	$6,000
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY	$5,000
CONNIE'S KITTENS	$5,000
LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

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

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

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

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.3M · 43 repeat orgs$647k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.3M

$581k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%

+23%

Still filing today

74%

63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionHealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

DL
DE LA SALLE ACADEMY
8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +19%
VI
VOCATIONAL INSTRUCTION PROJECT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +287%
NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC
2× · 2017–2018 · $60k · revenue +48%

Funded once

AT
APOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue -14%
AI
AdmissionSquad Inc
one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -42%
TL
THE LEGAL AID SOCIETYgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +66%

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.

04Its field

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.

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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United States Naval Institute

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.

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New York School of Interior Design

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…

Education

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

Fordham University

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.

Education

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

University of New Haven

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…

Education

Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Manhattan University

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…

Education

Furman University

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.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

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

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

81/84

Grantees still filing

55/84

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$765,750Arts & Culture$432,000Education$377,250Public Benefit$122,500Health$114,500Crime & Legal$83,500Human Services$75,500

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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY14.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

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

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Parsons Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Parsons Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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