Delaware · Private foundation
The Thomas and Michele Parsons Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $78k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $703k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations The Thomas and Michele Parsons Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $78k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $67k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $90k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $85k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $70k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $67k | 23% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $50k | 62% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $27k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camp Newfound Owatonna Corporation | $95,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Longyear Foundation | $36,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Principia Corporation | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Fortissimo | $26,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of King County | $26,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Bellwether Housing | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Chestnut Hill Benevolent Association | $19,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Recovery Cafe | $18,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Peace Haven Association Inc | $14,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Plymouth Housing Group and Subsidiaries | $14,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($158k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Thomas and Michele Parsons Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Tenacre Foundation · Mueller Hoisel Wanger Charitable Foundation Inc · The Isabel Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Joseph Warren Foundation · Towle Family Foundation · The Foss Family Foundation · The Harding Foundation 2108-01-44
How this is measured
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About The Thomas and Michele Parsons Family Foundation
- How much does The Thomas and Michele Parsons Family Foundation give?
- The Thomas and Michele Parsons Family Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $78,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Thomas and Michele Parsons Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (32%), Recreation & Sports (19%), Arts & Culture (13%).
- Who are The Thomas and Michele Parsons Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Camp Newfound Owatonna Corporation ($95k), Longyear Foundation ($36k), The Principia Corporation ($30k).
- Does The Thomas and Michele Parsons Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Thomas and Michele 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 Thomas and Michele Parsons Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Tenacre Foundation, Mueller Hoisel Wanger Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Thomas and Michele Parsons Family Foundation based?
- The Thomas and Michele Parsons Family Foundation is based in DE.
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