FundersKentucky

The Jamie Parsley Family

Prospect, KY · EIN 84-1664591. Reported 83 grants totalling $509,634 to 40 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$509,634granted, 2021-2024
40organizations funded
52%of grantees funded again the next year
$2,387,588assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The Jamie Parsley Family did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $5,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $25,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
16 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
52 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
14 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
University of KentuckyLexington, KY$67,500442024
Auburn UniversityAuburn, AL$55,000442024
Western Kentucky UniversityBowling Green, KY$35,000442024
University of LouisvilleLouisville, KY$30,000442024
Centre CollegeDanville, KY$25,000442024
Colby CollegeWaterville, ME$20,000442024
Washington and Lee UniversityLexington, VA$20,000442024
University of GeorgiaAthens, GA$15,000332024
Cabbage Patch Settlement HouseLouisville, KY$14,500332024
Home of the Innocents IncLouisville, KY$14,500332024
St Joseph Catholic Orphans SocietyLouisville, KY$14,500332023
Dare to Care IncLouisville, KY$14,000332024
Barren HeightsLouisville, KY$10,000332024
Bellarmine UniversityLouisville, KY$10,000222023
Boston CollegeChestnut Hill, MA$10,000222024
Miami University of OhioOxford, OH$10,000112021
National Safe Place NetworkLouisville, KY$10,000222022
Nativity AcademyLouisville, KY$10,000222024
Stanford UniversityStanford, CA$10,000222022
University of AlabamaTuscaloosa, AL$10,000222022
University of MiamiCoral Gables, FL$10,000222024
University of MississippiUniversity, MS$10,000222024
University of WisconsinMadison, WI$10,000222024
Lifehouse IncLouisville, KY$8,535222024
Purdue UniversityWest Lafayette, IN$7,500112022
Boys and Girls Clubs IncLouisville, KY$5,599112022
Boyce CollegeLouisville, KY$5,000112022
Cedar Lake FoundationLouisville, KY$5,000112021
Liberty UniversityLynchburg, VA$5,000112021
Ma Institute of TechnologyCambridge, MA$5,000112021
Oregon State UniversityCorvallis, OR$5,000112024
Samford UniversityHomewood, AL$5,000112024
First Hour Grief ResponseLouisville, KY$4,500112022
Operation ParentBuckner, KY$4,000112022
The Depaul School IncLouisville, KY$4,000112023
West End Preparatory SchoolLouisville, KY$3,000112023
Friends SchoolLouisville, KY$2,500112021
Adelante Hispanic AchieversLouisville, KY$2,000112023
Best Buddies InternationalMiami, FL$2,000112021
Presentation AcademyLouisville, KY$1,000112022

23 of 40 (58%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 52%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 36 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
21 grants
Human Services
7 grants
Food & Nutrition
3 grants
Housing & Shelter
2 grants
Youth Development
1 grant
Mental Health
1 grant
International Affairs
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202121$128,500$5,000
202221$135,634$5,000
202321$122,500$5,000
202420$123,000$5,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 59% of this one's giving went to organizations in Kentucky. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Kentucky
$300K
Alabama
$70K
Virginia
$25K
Maine
$20K
Massachusetts
$15K
Georgia
$15K
Florida
$12K
Mississippi
$10K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

The Community Foundation of17 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund15 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc15 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc14 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation13 shared recipientsThe Community Foundation of Louisville13 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Kentucky.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from The Jamie Parsley Family's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 7012 Breakwater Pl, Prospect, KY, 40059. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 84-1664591 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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