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The Rebecca C Parsons Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$384k
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$1.0MReligion$392kHuman Services$377kEnvironment$90kHealth$40kArts & Culture$15kMembership Benefit$13kPublic Benefit$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $95k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $229k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$8.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YMCA of Coastal Carolina$60,000
Little Smurfs Inc$35,000
Williamsburg Technical College$29,250
Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church$25,000
Helping Hands of Georgetown$25,000
Teach my People$25,000
Open Space Institute$15,000
Georgetown County School District$15,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Trinity Global Methodist Church$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Andrews Church of God$10,000
Andrews Community Development Corporation$7,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $305k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%Healthy Learners: $30k → 17%YMCA of Coastal Carolina: $150k → 13%YMCA of Coastal Carolina: $60k → 13%Little Smurfs Inc: $35k → 26%Little Smurfs Inc: $30k → 26%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 25 repeat orgs$322k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
22

Total granted

$1.7M
$218k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
-2%

Still filing today

24%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationReligionEnvironmentCrime & LegalFood & NutritionOther

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

  • YO
    YMCA OF COASTAL CAROLINA
    2× · 2023–2024 · $210k · revenue +15%
  • HH
    HELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $98k · revenue +18%
  • OS
    OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $90k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • HL
    HEALTHY LEARNERS
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -2%
  • MR
    MISS RUBY'S KIDS
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +13%
  • WT
    WILLIAMSBURG TECH COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -40%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Childs Garden Inc

Operation of a public charter school.

Education
2
Phelps County Christian Inc

Legacy Christian School exists to equp the next generation in South Central Nebraska to be godly leaders by partnering with parents to disciple them into a biblical worldview through challenging academics for the glory of God.

Education
3
The Child Care and Learning Center

The establishment and operation of a child learning/daycare facility for the use, benefit, and general welfare of the children of rappahannock county, virginia.

Education
4
River Mill Academy

Operation of a north carolina public charter school

Education
5
The Children's Center Inc

The children's center provides affordable high quality education and childcare for working families throughout the lowcountry.

Human Services
6
Greater Raleigh Area Christian Education Inc

Grace christian school is a loving community that spiritually and academically equips, challenges, and inspires students to impact their world for christ.

Education
7
Hill Country Montessori School Inc

Provide quality education for students from pre school through middle school using the Montessori method of learning and teaching.

Education
8
Crowleys Ridge Academy

Christian education

9
Warner Robins Day Care Center Inc Dba Cherished Children

Day care for low income families.

Human Services
10
NourishNC Inc

NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community

Food & Nutrition
11
Food for Little Rascals Inc

Food for Little Rascals Inc (FFLR) is operated exclusively to improve the health, welfare, and care of children in the State of South Carolina.

12
Roxboro Community School Inc

Operation of a public charter school

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Helping Hands of Georgetown Inc and the most unlike its peers is Community Christmas Dinner. 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 64 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Andrews High School — $560,600 · OtherAndrews High SchoolHELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN INC — $97,500 · OtherHELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN INCTRINITY UNITED METHODIST — $85,000 · OtherTRINITY UNITED METHODISTGeorgetown County School District — $75,000 · OtherTrinity Global Methodist Church — $60,000 · Other+49 more — $538,825 · Other+49 moreYMCA OF COASTAL CAROLINA — $210,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF COASTAL C…LITTLE SMURFS INC — $65,000 · Human ServicesLITTLE SMURFS INCHEALTHY LEARNERS — $30,000 · Human ServicesHEALTHY LEARNERSTara Hall School Inc DBA Mingo Creek Academy — $15,000 · Human ServicesTEACH MY PEOPLE — $155,000 · ReligionOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC — $90,000 · EnvironmentMISS RUBY'S KIDS — $30,000 · EducationWILLIAMSBURG TECH COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · EducationCAROLINA HUMAN REINVESTMENT — $5,000 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITY CHRISTMAS DINNER — $2,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,416,925Human Services$320,000Religion$155,000Environment$90,000Education$50,000Crime & Legal$5,000Food & Nutrition$2,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYMCA OF COASTAL CAROLINA — $210,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTEACH MY PEOPLE — $155,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetHELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN INC — $97,500 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC — $90,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetLITTLE SMURFS INC — $65,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetHEALTHY LEARNERS — $30,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMISS RUBY'S KIDS — $30,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetWILLIAMSBURG TECH COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetTara Hall School Inc DBA Mingo Creek Academy — $15,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCAROLINA HUMAN REINVESTMENT — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY CHRISTMAS DINNER — $2,500 over 1y, 4.9% of budget
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 YMCA OF COASTAL CAROLINA
  • Who funds TEACH MY PEOPLE
  • Who funds HELPING HANDS OF GEORGETOWN INC
  • Who funds OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC
  • Who funds LITTLE SMURFS INC
  • Who funds HEALTHY LEARNERS
  • Who funds MISS RUBY'S KIDS
  • Who funds WILLIAMSBURG TECH COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Tara Hall School Inc DBA Mingo Creek Academy

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.

Frances P Bunnelle Foundation Coastal Community Foundation of ScSC26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Frances P Bunnelle Foundation Coastal Community Foundation of Sc · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The K Foundation · International Paper Company Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Vandy Charitable Foundation · Waccamaw Community Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Rebecca C 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Rebecca C Parsons Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Rebecca C Parsons Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 64 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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