· 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of The Thomas and Michele Parsons Family Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST | $15,000 |
| CHRISTIAN SCIENCE READING ROOM METROPOLITAN SEATTL | $10,000 |
| FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST | $10,000 |
| CHESTNUT HILL BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| CAMPS NEWFOUND OWATONNA CORPORATION | $10,000 |
| FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST | $5,000 |
| FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY | $2,500 |
| NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES | $2,500 |
| BIBLOS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| PEACE HAVEN | $1,000 |
| IMAGINE HOUSING | $1,000 |
| SUNRISE HAVEN | $1,000 |
| LONGYEAR FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| RECOVERY CAFE | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +25% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- CNCamp Newfound Owatonna Corporation8× · 2018–2025 · $95k · revenue +48%
- TPThe Principia Corporation2× · 2020–2022 · $30k · revenue +69%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY5× · 2021–2025 · $26k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- SPSeattle Police Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +35%
- SFSMILES FOREVERone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +2%
- NNATUREBRIDGEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +43%
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.
Sccs builds the city of god by forming servant leaders who love goodness, truth, and beauty.
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
We, the people of northwest university, carry the call of god by continually building a learning community dedicated to spiritual vitality, academic excellence, and empowered engagement with human need.
Housing Counseling Services
Sustainable Path Foundation promotes sustainability and health in the Puget Sound region through collaborative approaches informed by scientific understanding and systems thinking.
Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences educates and trains health care professionals emphasizing service among rural and medically under-served communities throughout the Northwest.
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.
Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.
The broad mission of the ASCSA has remained constant over its distinguished history: teaching research archaeological exploration publication and dissemination of research. Founded in 1881 the ASCSA provides graduate students and scholars…
Nurturing the full development of the gifts that god has given to each student, fostering service as an outgrowth of faith and values diversity. working with parents as partners in the educational ministry, we strive for academic…
Pcs operates a school specifically designed to meet the development needs of the child from preschool through middle school, in accordance with the principles and education of human development taught by maria montessori.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sunrise Haven and the most unlike its peers is Biblos Foundation. 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 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 35 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
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.
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- Who funds RECOVERY CAFE ↗
- Who funds PEACE HAVEN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
- Who funds Biblos Foundation ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds IMAGINE HOUSING ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE HAVEN ↗
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- Who funds TEAM LONG RUN ↗
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- Who funds SMILES FOREVER ↗
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- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NATUREBRIDGE ↗
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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: 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
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 Thomas and Michele Parsons Family 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.