The Bob & Renee Parsons Foundation

• The Foundation's stated focus is youth and education, health and home, military and first responders, and the American dream, and it favours nonprofits that can demonstrate and measure their impact.
• Eligible applicants must be 501(c)(3) organisations doing charitable work in Arizona, with an annual budget of at least $1 million and at least three years of operation, so smaller organisations should not apply.
• About 8 in 10 grants to organisations fall between $20,000 and $850,000, and half are $200,000 or less, so a modest request fits the typical pattern, though the largest grant recorded was $10,000,000 and the band is not a ceiling.
• Start with the eligibility quiz and a letter of interest, since the Foundation may then invite a full application through its portal, and applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
• In the filing, 74% of grant dollars to organisations went to groups it had also funded in the previous filing, so a first approach is most useful if the work clearly matches its focus areas.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Semper Fi America's Fund · General Operating Support and payment of 2022 grant for the Double Down for Veterans program
  $10,000,0002023 tax year
• University of California, Berkeley · The Renee & U.S. Marine LCpl Bob Parsons Endowed Chair - Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics
  $3,000,0002023 tax year
• Boys Girls Club of the Valley · To support Summer Programs at the Boys & Girls Clubs
  $1,156,0002023 tax year
• Team Rubicon · Maui Wildfire Disaster Relief in collaboration with PXG
  $1,000,0002023 tax year
• Child Crisis Arizona · General Operating Support and Foster Bright Futures Campaign
  $1,000,0002023 tax year
• Barack Obama Foundation · General operating support
  $1,000,0002023 tax year
• 100 Club of Arizona · To provide program support for mental health & trauma support, critical incidents, survivor & family support, death & injury prevention, and general operations.
  $900,0002023 tax year
• Icahn School Of Medicine MT Sinai · General operating support for the Center for Psychedelic Psychotherapy and Trauma Research
  $800,0002023 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.