· Private foundation
The Ralph M Parsons Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k71 grants · $243k
- $10k–50k151 grants · $3.0M
- $50k–250k177 grants · $14M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE COLBURN SCHOOL | $500,000 |
| THE PEOPLE CONCERN | $300,000 |
| PASADENA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC | $250,000 |
| SEED SCHOOL OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY | $250,000 |
| LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| PROJECT ANGEL FOOD | $200,000 |
| PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS | $200,000 |
| SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS | $200,000 |
| PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS | $200,000 |
| PROJECT ANGEL FOOD | $200,000 |
| PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $200,000 |
| A PLACE CALLED HOME | $150,000 |
| SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT | $150,000 |
| HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC | $150,000 |
| THE WENDE MUSEUM OF THE COLD WAR INC | $150,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $19.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of The Ralph M Parsons Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 99% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
566 repeat relationships — 271 still active in FY2024, 295 since wound down; 53 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS7× · 2018–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +423%- CPCOMMUNITY PARTNERS7× · 2018–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +216%
- CSCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +50%
Funded once
- TSTHE SEED FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue -7%
PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTYone grant, 2018 · $510k · revenue +4%- TCTHE CHILDREN'S CLINIC 'SERVING CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES'one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue -10%
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.
Chamber's mission: design and advance opportunities and solutions for a thriving regional economy that are inclusive and globally competitive. 1) advocacy - be a bold advocate for business as a driver of a strong economy that enables…
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
Community organizing, education, advocacy, leadership development, direct services and organizational development for communities faced with immense poverty.
To help each child reach his/her full potential by cultivating an active village of parents, community members, and stakeholders involved in providing an individual, personal, and conceptual learning environment for each student.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
Meeting the professional needs of los angeles lawyers, and improving the administration of justice.
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
To foster relationships among alumni, students and community by providing services and activities that build loyalty, support and a lifelong connection to the university.
The L.A. Co-op Lab is a collective that builds capacity for worker ownership in Los Angeles as a pathway toward a more equitable and democratic economy.
To prepare students for leadership in the arts and business; where creativity, academic knowledge and financial literacy are essential for success. we are providing an education that integrates the four lenses of learning: academics, arts,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca of Glendale and Pasadena and the most unlike its peers is Japanese Amer Bar Asso Edu Foundati. 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 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
817 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. 817 of the 892 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGESPAN GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PATH ↗
- Who funds DESTINATION CRENSHAW ↗
- Who funds THE SEED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds MuseIque ↗
- Who funds MARTIN LUTHER KING JR COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLE CONCERN ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRIFFITH OBSERVATORY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALL FOR KIDS ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE COLBURN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES FOUNDATION SAN FERNANDO & SANTA CLARITA VALLEYS SA ↗
- Who funds UNION RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds CCF COMMUNITY INITIATIVES FUND ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds EXCELLENT EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds A PLACE CALLED HOME ↗
- Who funds CASA OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds THE WENDE MUSEUM OF THE COLD WAR INC ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE INFANT-FAMILY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC COUNSEL ↗
- Who funds CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds VIP COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LTSC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
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: The Ahmanson Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Weingart Foundation · S Mark Taper Foundation · The Green Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · United Way Inc · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · Shelter Partnership Inc · California Community Foundation · The Crail-Johnson Foundation · Wm Keck Foundation
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 Ralph M Parsons 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.
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.