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The Ralph M Parsons Foundation at a glance

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The Ralph M Parsons Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$18M
Granted FY2024still arriving
403
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$25MHuman Services$19MEducation$19MHealth$18MYouth Development$11MHousing & Shelter$11MPhilanthropy$8.8MCommunity Improvement$6.9MOther$0
02FY2024 · 403 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k71 grants · $243k
  • $10k–50k151 grants · $3.0M
  • $50k–250k177 grants · $14M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.3M
$30,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$452M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE COLBURN SCHOOL$500,000
THE PEOPLE CONCERN$300,000
SEED SCHOOL OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY$250,000
PASADENA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC$250,000
PROJECT ANGEL FOOD$200,000
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS$200,000
PROJECT ANGEL FOOD$200,000
PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$200,000
LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION$200,000
PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS$200,000
PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS$200,000
PARA LOS NINOS$150,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOS ANGELES HARBOR$150,000
UNION RESCUE MISSION$150,000
CHILDRENS INSTITUTE INC$150,000
02The need
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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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TIDES CENTER: $200k → 10%CHILD WELFARE INNOVATION INC (DBA FOSTER AMERICA): $125k → 16%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $300k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $300k → 14%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $100k → 14%THE RICHSTONE CENTER INC: $150k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $150k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $150k → 14%PARA LOS NIOS: $100k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $100k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $100k → 14%FOOTHILL FAMILY SERVICE: $200k → 14%FOOTHILL FAMILY SERVICE: $125k → 14%FOOTHILL FAMILY SERVICE: $125k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $100k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $100k → 14%SANTA CLARITA VALLEY COMMITTEE ON AGING INC (DBA SANTA CLARITA VALLEY SENIO: $100k → 14%ABILITYFIRST: $100k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $100k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $100k → 14%INNERCITY STRUGGLE: $100k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $250k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $150k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $125k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $100k → 14%DOWNTOWN WOMENS CENTER: $100k → 14%HARVEST HOME INC: $150k → 14%IMAGINE LOS ANGELES INC: $125k → 14%PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS: $300k → 14%PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS: $200k → 14%PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS: $200k → 14%PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS: $150k → 14%PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS: $150k → 14%CHILDRENS INSTITUTE INC: $250k → 14%CHILDRENS INSTITUTE INC: $250k → 14%CHILDRENS INSTITUTE INC: $150k → 14%CHILDRENS INSTITUTE INC: $150k → 14%UNITED AMERICAN INDIAN INVOLVEMENT: $125k → 14%STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC: $150k → 14%STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC: $150k → 14%STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC: $125k → 14%ALL PEOPLES COMMUNITY CENTER: $150k → 14%MEND-MEET EACH NEED WITH DIGNITY: $125k → 14%FOSTERING MEDIA CONNECTIONS: $125k → 14%CHILDRENS BUREAU OF SOUTHERN CALIF: $250k → 14%CHILDRENS BUREAU OF SOUTHERN CALIF: $250k → 14%WELLNEST EMOTIONAL HEALTH & WELLNESS: $250k → 14%WESTSIDE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $150k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

WA
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AR
NC
DC
HI
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of The Ralph M Parsons Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 99%.

The Ralph M Parsons Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$116M · 566 repeat orgs$14M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

566
261

Total granted

$116M
$13M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+14%

Still filing today

94%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS
    7× · 2018–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +423%
  • CP
    COMMUNITY PARTNERS
    7× · 2018–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +216%
  • CS
    CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SEED FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue -7%
  • PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY
    one grant, 2018 · $510k · revenue +4%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S CLINIC 'SERVING CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES'
    one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue -10%
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.

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Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce

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…

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2
The California Channel

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…

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3
Cangress Dba Los Angeles Community Action Network

Community organizing, education, advocacy, leadership development, direct services and organizational development for communities faced with immense poverty.

Community Improvement
4
Alternative Schools Inc

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.

Education
5
Association of California School Administrators

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.

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6
Los Angeles Opera Company

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…

Arts & Culture
7
The American Institute of Architects California

The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.

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8
Los Angeles County Bar Association (Lacba)

Meeting the professional needs of los angeles lawyers, and improving the administration of justice.

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9
California College of the Arts

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…

Education
10
California State University Los Angeles Alumni Association Inc

To foster relationships among alumni, students and community by providing services and activities that build loyalty, support and a lifelong connection to the university.

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11
Cooperation L a

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.

Arts & Culture
12
Los Angeles Academy of Arts and Enterprise

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,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca of Glendale and Pasadena; 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.
05the grantee network

817 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. 817 of the 892 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
205
Early backer (in before they grew)
801/817
Grantees still filing
602/817
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,640,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA SCIENCE…LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION: $1,350,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES COUNTY…PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1,151,500 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC MEDIA GROUP…DESTINATION CRENSHAW: $1,002,000 · Arts & CultureDESTINATION CRENSH…MuseIque: $842,350 · Arts & CultureMuseIqueAUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST: $800,000 · Arts & CultureAUTRY MUSEUM OF TH…LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $690,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COLBURN SCHOOL: $650,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WENDE MUSEUM OF THE COLD WAR INC: $560,000 · Arts & CulturePERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY: $510,000 · Arts & CultureHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $500,000 · Arts & Culture+15 more: $4,396,940 · Arts & Culture+15 morePATH: $1,010,000 · Human ServicesPATHCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $880,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S INSTITU…THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $710,000 · Human ServicesALL FOR KIDS ORGANIZATION: $700,000 · Human ServicesUNION RESCUE MISSION: $635,000 · Human ServicesPARA LOS NINOS: $500,000 · Human Services+32 more: $9,498,250 · Human Services+32 moreHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $1,401,000 · OtherHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INCBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES: $985,000 · Other+65 more: $21,907,349 · Other+65 moreUCLA FOUNDATION: $1,026,160 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIO…THE SEED FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · EducationTHE SEED FOUND…EXCELLENT EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT: $625,000 · EducationEXCELLENT EDUC…CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE: $525,000 · EducationLA PROMISE FUND: $470,000 · EducationEQUITAS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL: $400,000 · Education+27 more: $6,867,175 · Education+27 moreMARTIN LUTHER KING JR COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $814,500 · HealthMARTIN LUTH…PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES FOUNDATION SAN FERNANDO & SANTA CLARITA VALLEYS SA: $650,000 · HealthPROVIDENCE …WESTSIDE INFANT-FAMILY NETWORK: $550,000 · HealthWESTSIDE IN…VIP COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $525,000 · HealthVIP COMMUNI…DIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE: $500,000 · HealthDIDI HIRSCH…PROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $500,000 · HealthPROJECT ANG…ORTHOPAEDIC INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $450,000 · HealthWESTSIDE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER: $430,000 · HealthNORTHEAST VALLEY HEALTH CORPORATION: $400,000 · HealthLOS ANGELES CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTERS: $400,000 · HealthVENICE FAMILY CLINIC: $375,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES: $350,200 · HealthCHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $325,000 · HealthMEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $300,000 · HealthCALIFORNIA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $300,000 · HealthSOUTH CENTRAL FAMILY HEALTH CENTER: $300,000 · Health+7 more: $1,775,000 · Health+7 moreCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4,692,750 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA …SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS: $2,276,000 · PhilanthropySOUTHERN CA…LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION: $705,600 · PhilanthropyLIBERTY HIL…CCF COMMUNITY INITIATIVES FUND: $635,000 · PhilanthropyCCF COMMUNI…ST JOHN'S COMMUNITY HEALTH: $400,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $2,068,150 · Community ImprovementTHE BRIDGESPAN GROUP INC: $1,550,000 · Community ImprovementNONPROFIT FINANCE FUND: $350,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT: $302,500 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $280,250 · Community ImprovementLos Angeles River Revitalization Corporation dba River LA: $280,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGIES CENTER: $257,350 · Community ImprovementLA PLAZA DE CULTURA Y ARTES: $208,000 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$14,092,790Human Services$13,933,250Other$24,293,349Education$10,913,335Health$8,944,700Philanthropy$8,709,350Community Improvement$5,296,250

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4,692,750 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS: $2,276,000 over 7y, 6.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $2,068,150 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,640,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetTHE BRIDGESPAN GROUP INC: $1,550,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $1,401,000 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetLOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION: $1,350,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetPUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1,151,500 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $1,026,160 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPATH: $1,010,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetDESTINATION CRENSHAW: $1,002,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetTHE SEED FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES: $985,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $880,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetMuseIque: $842,350 over 5y, 8.5% of budgetMARTIN LUTHER KING JR COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $814,500 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetAUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST: $800,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetTHE PEOPLE CONCERN: $710,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION: $705,600 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetGRIFFITH OBSERVATORY FOUNDATION: $705,000 over 5y, 25% of budgetALL FOR KIDS ORGANIZATION: $700,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION: $690,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES FOUNDATION SAN FERNANDO & SANTA CLARITA VALLEYS SA: $650,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTHE COLBURN SCHOOL: $650,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUNION RESCUE MISSION: $635,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCCF COMMUNITY INITIATIVES FUND: $635,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $630,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEXCELLENT EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT: $625,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME: $600,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetCASA OF LOS ANGELES: $582,350 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetTHE WENDE MUSEUM OF THE COLD WAR INC: $560,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetWESTSIDE INFANT-FAMILY NETWORK: $550,000 over 4y, 8.9% of budgetPUBLIC COUNSEL: $532,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetVIP COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $525,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetCHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE: $525,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY: $510,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CLINIC 'SERVING CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES': $500,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE: $500,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LOS ANGELES HARBOR: $500,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $500,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetPARA LOS NINOS: $500,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $500,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLTSC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $500,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetLA PROMISE FUND: $470,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $453,190 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetORTHOPAEDIC INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $450,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetWellnest Emotional Health & Wellness: $450,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFOOD FORWARD INC: $450,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budget
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.

  • 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 PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES FOUNDATION SAN FERNANDO & SANTA CLARITA VALLEYS SA ↗
  • Who funds THE COLBURN SCHOOL ↗
  • 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 VIP COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE ↗
  • Who funds PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CLINIC 'SERVING CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES' ↗

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.

The Ahmanson Foundati…The Rose Hills Founda…Weingart FoundationS Mark Taper Foundati…The Green FoundationThe Annenberg Foundat…United Way IncElbridge Stuart Found…Shelter Partnership I…California Community …The Crail-Johnson Fou…Wm Keck Foundation
The Ahmanson FoundationCA344× affinity309 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ralph M Parsons Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ralph M Parsons Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    98report 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 892 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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