Funder Standing / The Ralph M Parsons Foundation

The Ralph M Parsons Foundation

CA · EIN 956085895 · 100M+ · data as of FY2024
Adds new grantees regularly

81 of 327 organizations The Ralph M Parsons Foundation funded in FY2024 had not been funded in the prior 3 years.

Across all compared years the rate is 31.4%. Foundations of a similar size sit at 33.0%.

The numbers

New-grantee rate
31.4%
Pooled across compared years
Median grant
$30,000
Range $100 – $500,000
Repeat-dollar share
76.4%
Dollars to prior-year grantees
Accepts unsolicited
Yes
Inferred from the filing — see below
Match rate
100.0%
Grant lines resolved to an organization
Filing years used
5
Consecutive returns on file

Who they funded in FY2024

RecipientAmount
THE COLBURN SCHOOL$500,000
COMMUNITY PARTNERS$430,250
PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS$400,000
PROJECT ANGEL FOOD$400,000
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS$350,000
THE PEOPLE CONCERN$310,000
HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC$301,000
PASADENA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC$250,000
SEED SCHOOL OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY$250,000
LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION$220,200
PERFORMING ARTS CENTER OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY (DBA THE MUSIC CENTER)$210,000
LTSC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (DBA LTSC CDC AND LITTLE TOKYO SERVI$200,000
PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAnew$200,000
CCF COMMUNITY INITIATIVES FUND$170,000
CHILDRENS INSTITUTE INC$160,000
UNION RESCUE MISSION$160,000
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT$150,000
THE WENDE MUSEUM OF THE COLD WAR INC$150,000
A PLACE CALLED HOME$150,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOS ANGELES HARBOR$150,000
PARA LOS NINOS$150,000
MOUNT SAINT MARYS UNIVERSITY$150,000
BLIND CHILDRENS CENTER INCnew$150,000
THE CLINIC INC (DBA THE HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTERS)new$150,000
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION$130,000

Showing the 25 largest of 327 grants.

How to read this

Every US private foundation files Form 990-PF, and Part XV of that return itemises each grant it paid, with the recipient's name. Lining those lists up across filing years shows which organizations were funded for the first time.

That does work the application checkbox cannot. Whether a foundation says it accepts unsolicited proposals is self-reported and never audited. The grant ledger is behaviour.

What this page does not tell you. Whether your work fits what The Ralph M Parsons Foundation funds — no tax return contains that. Whether anyone on your board already knows a trustee, which is how a great deal of foundation money actually moves. Or anything that has changed since the last filing, which runs twelve to twenty-four months behind.
Source. IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV line 3a (grants paid during the year), tax years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Excludes. Grants approved for future payment, which the return lists separately
Computed. 2026-08-03 · Next recompute. 2026-11-01
Distribution. GivingTuesday Data Lake mirror of the IRS e-file corpus

If this is your foundation.

Every figure here comes from your own filings. If one looks wrong I would rather hear it than keep publishing it — write to me and I will show you the filings and the arithmetic behind it, and correct it if it is off.