· Private foundation
Theodore Edson Parker Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $135k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $327k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $570k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOWELL PARKS CONSERVATION TRUST | $125,000 |
| WHISTLER HOUSE MUSEUM OF ART | $85,000 |
| RIVERBEND | $75,000 |
| GREATER LOWELL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| BRIDGE CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL | $60,000 |
| MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK | $50,000 |
| GIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER LOWEL | $50,000 |
| FORTALEZA INC | $50,000 |
| ELIOT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $45,000 |
| MIDDLESEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $30,000 |
| MIDDLESEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDAT | $29,615 |
| THRIVE COMMUNITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $25,000 |
| LANTERN LIGHT CAMPS | $25,000 |
| PROJECT KOMPASS | $25,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE OF PORTUGUES | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Theodore Edson Parker Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $514k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Community Teamwork Inc4× · 2020–2023 · $352k · revenue +113%- PLPROJECT LEARN INC4× · 2020–2023 · $340k · revenue +56%
- AFACRE FAMILY CHILD CARE INC2× · 2021–2022 · $200k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- ABARTS BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATERone grant, 2022 · $100k
- WIWOMEN IN TRANSITION DBA ALTERNATIone grant, 2019 · $100k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATone grant, 2023 · $75k
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.
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.
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
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.
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.
We work to ensure that individuals with disabilities can live independently as equal members of society.
To provide specialized advocacy and representation for children on issues affecting their health, education and welfare including providing resources and training
Manage facilities for community access programming on the public educational & governmental access channels.
How this is measured
79 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. 79 of the 128 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 PROJECT CITIZENSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Catie's Closet Inc ↗
- Who funds LOWELL HERITAGE PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Theodore Edson Parker Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Theodore Edson Parker Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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