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Theodore Edson Parker Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
43
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Youth Development$1.4MHuman Services$866kEducation$866kHousing & Shelter$830kPhilanthropy$780kArts & Culture$653kCommunity Improvement$373kFood & Nutrition$324kOther$0
02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $135k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $327k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $570k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$35M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOWELL PARKS CONSERVATION TRUST$125,000
WHISTLER HOUSE MUSEUM OF ART$85,000
GREATER LOWELL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$75,000
RIVERBEND$75,000
BRIDGE CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL$60,000
GIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER LOWEL$50,000
MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK$50,000
FORTALEZA INC$50,000
ELIOT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$45,000
MIDDLESEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE$30,000
MIDDLESEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDAT$29,615
LANTERN LIGHT CAMPS$25,000
PROJECT CITIZENSHIP$25,000
MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE OF PORTUGUES$25,000
THRIVE COMMUNITY OF MASSACHUSETTS$25,000
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 (FY19–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BUDGET BUDDIES INC: $15k → 10%NFI MASSACHUSETTS INC: $7k → 10%NORTH SHORE WORKERS COMMUNITY FUND: $30k → 10%HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES: $50k → 16%HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES: $25k → 16%WOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS: $20k → 16%MISSION OF DEEDS: $5k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE OF PORTUGUES: $25k → 8%ADOLESCENT CONSULTATION SERVICES: $8k → 8%BUDGET BUDDIES INC: $15k → 8%CENTRAL FOOD MINISTRY: $20k → 8%CENTRAL FOOD MINISTRY: $5k → 8%CATIE'S CLOSET: $30k → 8%CATIE'S CLOSET: $25k → 8%CAMBODIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE: $50k → 8%COMMUNITY TEAMWORK INC: $100k → 8%GREATER LOWELL FAMILY YMCA: $100k → 8%ACRE FAMILY CHILDCARE: $100k → 8%COMMUNITY TEAMWORK INC: $100k → 8%ACRE FAMILY CHILDCARE: $100k → 8%GREATER LOWELL FAMILY YMCA: $75k → 8%COMMUNITY TEAMWORK INC: $50k → 8%COMMUNITY TEAMWORK INC: $50k → 8%COMMUNITY TEAMWORK INC: $43k → 8%AFRICAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF LOWELL: $25k → 8%COMMUNITY TEAMWORK INC: $9k → 8%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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 6% of Theodore Edson Parker 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.

Theodore Edson Parker Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.4M · 46 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

46 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
53

Total granted

$5.4M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+12%

Still filing today

80%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $514k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHealthEducationHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • Community Teamwork Inc
    4× · 2020–2023 · $352k · revenue +113%
  • PL
    PROJECT LEARN INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $340k · revenue +56%
  • AF
    ACRE FAMILY CHILD CARE INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $200k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • WI
    WOMEN IN TRANSITION DBA ALTERNATI
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • AB
    ARTS BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • MV
    MERRIMACK VALLEY HOUSING PARTNERSHI
    one grant, 2023 · $75k

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
Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corp

The massachusetts legal assistance corporation provides leadership and support to improve civil legal services to low-income people in massachusetts through collaboration with the legal services community, the legislature, the public, the…

Crime & Legal
2
Lowell Telecommunications Corporation

Lowell telecommunication corporation's mission is to strengthen the city of lowell as a community media and education center that empowers, connects, and informs all residents, businesses, and organizations in the city. ltc provides…

Arts & Culture
3
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…

Education
4
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
5
Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Inc

We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.

Arts & Culture
6
Volunteer Lawyers Project of the Boston Bar Association Inc

The mission of the volunteer lawyers project of the boston bar association is to increase access to justice by delivering high quality pro bono civil legal services to eligible clients in the greater boston area.

Crime & Legal
7
Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc

Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.

Housing & Shelter
8
Massachusetts Nonprofit Network

The mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.

Education
9
League of Women Voters of Massachusetts

Lwvma, a nonpartisan organization, encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy.

Civil Rights
10
Center for Living & Working Inc

We work to ensure that individuals with disabilities can live independently as equal members of society.

Human Services
11
Children Law Center of Massachusetts Inc

To provide specialized advocacy and representation for children on issues affecting their health, education and welfare including providing resources and training

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12
Danvers Community Access Television Incorporated

Manage facilities for community access programming on the public educational & governmental access channels.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Veterans Legal Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Building Audacity. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%8%<5yr14%8%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr20%25%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr13%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%2%<5yr14%7%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr20%29%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr13%16%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/88
the rest of the field
10%
1,768/17,187

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.

05the grantee network

79 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. 79 of the 128 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/79
Grantees still filing
54/79
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL — $935,000 · OtherBOYS GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELLINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGL — $270,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLUNITED WAY OF MASS BAY AND MERRIMAC — $200,000 · OtherLAWYER'S COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS — $170,000 · Other+86 more — $2,960,269 · Other+86 moreCommunity Teamwork Inc — $351,500 · Human ServicesCommunity Teamw…ACRE FAMILY CHILD CARE INC — $200,000 · Human ServicesACRE FAMILY CHI…GREATER LOWELL FAMILY YMCA — $175,000 · Human ServicesGREATER LOWELL …HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesHEALTH LAW ADVO…Catie's Closet Inc — $55,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesCambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell Inc — $50,000 · Human Services+7 more — $124,215 · Human Services+7 morePROJECT LEARN INC — $340,000 · EducationPROJECT L…KIDS IN TECH INC — $150,000 · EducationKIDS IN T…Fortaleza Inc — $100,000 · EducationFortaleza…JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC — $25,000 · Education+2 more — $41,000 · Education+2 moreGreater Lowell Community Foundation Inc — $560,250 · PhilanthropyGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER LOWELL — $125,000 · Youth DevelopmentONE CAN HELP INC — $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentELEVATE NEW ENGLAND INC — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentNETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentLOWELL YOUTH LEADERSHIP PROGRAM INC — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentLANTERN LIGHT CAMPS INC — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentGENERATION CITIZEN INC — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentGOOD SPORTS INC — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentBUILDING AUDACITY — $15,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $7,000 · Youth DevelopmentLOWELL PARKS & CONSERVATION TRUST — $250,000 · EnvironmentAppalachian Mountain Club — $20,000 · EnvironmentMERRIMACK RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC — $20,000 · EnvironmentMerrimack Valley Housing Partnership Inc — $115,000 · Housing & ShelterCOALITION FOR A BETTER ACRE INC — $95,500 · Housing & ShelterLOWELL TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER INC — $44,000 · Housing & ShelterPROJECT KOMPASS INCORPORATED — $25,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$4,535,269Human Services$1,080,715Education$656,000Philanthropy$560,250Youth Development$382,000Environment$290,000Housing & Shelter$279,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGreater Lowell Community Foundation Inc — $560,250 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetCommunity Teamwork Inc — $351,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT LEARN INC — $340,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetLOWELL PARKS & CONSERVATION TRUST — $250,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetACRE FAMILY CHILD CARE INC — $200,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetGREATER LOWELL FAMILY YMCA — $175,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetKIDS IN TECH INC — $150,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER LOWELL — $125,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetCENTER FOR HOPE & HEALING INC — $117,500 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetMerrimack Valley Housing Partnership Inc — $115,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC — $115,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetLOWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC — $101,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFortaleza Inc — $100,000 over 2y, 44% of budgetCOALITION FOR A BETTER ACRE INC — $95,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetAARONS PRESENTS INC — $90,000 over 4y, 8.9% of budgetMILL CITY GROWS INC — $75,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetHEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC — $75,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetMerrimack Repertory Theatre Inc — $75,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetANGKOR DANCE TROUPE INC — $75,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetDWELLING HOUSE OF HOPE INC — $66,500 over 3y, 23% of budgetONE CAN HELP INC — $60,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetNORTHEAST LEGAL AID INC — $57,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCatie's Closet Inc — $55,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT CITIZENSHIP INC — $55,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetELEVATE NEW ENGLAND INC — $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetWOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS INC — $50,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetCambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetTHE WISH PROJECT — $45,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetLOWELL TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER INC — $44,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMERRIMACK VALLEY PROJECT INC — $42,500 over 2y, 20% of budgetJAMES D STCLAIR COURT PUBLIC EDUCATION PROJECT INC — $40,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetVETERANS LEGAL SERVICES INC — $40,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetNORTH SHORE WORKER'S COMMUNITY FUND INC — $30,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOR RESTORATIVE JUSTICE INC — $30,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetNETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT KOMPASS INCORPORATED — $25,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE OF PORTUGUESE SPEAKERS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLOWELL YOUTH LEADERSHIP PROGRAM INC — $25,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetPHOENIX MULTISPORT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetENOUGH ABUSE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetLOWELL MAKES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLANTERN LIGHT CAMPS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetGENERATION CITIZEN INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGAINING GROUND INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCentral Food Ministry Inc — $25,000 over 2y, 20% 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 Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Community Teamwork Inc ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT LEARN INC ↗
  • Who funds LOWELL PARKS & CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
  • Who funds ACRE FAMILY CHILD CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER LOWELL FAMILY YMCA ↗
  • Who funds KIDS IN TECH INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER LOWELL ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR HOPE & HEALING INC ↗
  • Who funds Merrimack Valley Housing Partnership Inc ↗
  • Who funds ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC ↗
  • Who funds LOWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds Fortaleza Inc ↗
  • Who funds COALITION FOR A BETTER ACRE INC ↗
  • Who funds AARONS PRESENTS INC ↗
  • Who funds MILL CITY GROWS INC ↗
  • Who funds HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC ↗
  • Who funds Merrimack Repertory Theatre Inc ↗
  • Who funds ANGKOR DANCE TROUPE INC ↗
  • Who funds DWELLING HOUSE OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds ONE CAN HELP INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST LEGAL AID INC ↗
  • Who funds Catie's Closet Inc ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT CITIZENSHIP INC ↗

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.

Greater Lowell Commun…Cummings Foundation G…Eastern Bank Foundati…We Share A Common Thr…The Saab Family Found…Trustees of the Ayer …Aubert J Fay Charitab…Richard K & Nancy L D…Boston Foundation IncSalem Five Charitable…The Battles Foundatio…Greater Lowell Health…
Greater Lowell Community Foundation IncMA87.2× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · We Share A Common Thread Foundation Inc · The Saab Family Foundation · Trustees of the Ayer Home · Aubert J Fay Charitable Fund · Richard K & Nancy L Donahue Charitable Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · The Battles Foundation Inc · Greater Lowell Health Alliance Chna 10 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 Theodore Edson Parker 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 250%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Center for Hope & Healing Inc — 73% of income from government
  • Health Law Advocates Inc — 52% of income from government
  • Lowell Association for the Blind Inc — 49% of income from government
  • Acre Family Child Care Inc — 45% of income from government
  • Lowell Community Health Center Inc — 34% of income from government
  • Building Audacity — 24% of income from government
  • Community Teamwork Inc — 23% of income from government
  • Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Veterans Legal Services Inc — 16% of income from government
  • Kids in Tech Inc — 15% of income from government
  • The Lowell Festival Foundation — 12% of income from government
  • Project Citizenship Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Angkor Dance Troupe Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Lawrence Communityworks Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Communities for Restorative Justice Inc — 8% of income from government
  • One Can Help Inc — 8% of income from government
  • New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated — 8% of income from government
  • Mill City Grows Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Northeast Legal Aid Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Dwelling House of Hope Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Gaining Ground Inc — 5% of income from government
  • 2ND Act Org Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Project Learn Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Catie's Closet Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Discovery Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
  • North Shore Worker's Community Fund Inc — 3% of income from government
  • The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Girls Incorporated of Greater Lowell — 3% of income from government
  • Entrepreneurship for All Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Merrimack Repertory Theatre Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
  • Women's Money Matters Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Lowell Makes Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
25get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 Theodore Edson Parker Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Theodore Edson Parker 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 128 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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