Fraser-Parker Foundation

• Fraser-Parker Foundation, based in Atlanta, GA, supports a wide range of organisations – schools and other education organisations, museums, arts institutions, universities and health services, churches, food banks and social-service organisations, environmental and public-space bodies, and charities responding to disasters – so many kinds of nonprofit work could fit.
• Typical grants to organisations run from $50,000 to $500,000, covering about 8 in 10 of its 121 grants, with a median of $100,000, so pitching a request in that band is realistic; the largest grant recorded, about $1,600,000, went to the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, an organisation that regrants to others.
• No geographic focus is stated, though the filings show grants concentrated mainly in Georgia.
• Crucially, the foundation does not accept unsolicited requests and gives by invitation only, so a cold application is not the way in; building a relationship that leads to an invitation is the realistic route, and there is no stated timing to work to.
• Once funded, relationships can continue, as 35% of its grant dollars went to organisations also funded in the two preceding filings, but new grants still make up the larger share of its giving, so being new to the foundation is no barrier.

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

• Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta · Family daf
  $1,500,0002024 tax year
• Lovett School · Capital campaign
  $1,500,0002024 tax year
• Whitefield Academy · Construction campaign
  $500,0002024 tax year
• Path Foundation · Trails campaign
  $350,0002024 tax year
• Emory University · Department of palliative care fellowship
  $341,6002024 tax year
• Fernbank Museum of Natural History · Capital campaign
  $300,0002024 tax year
• First Presbyterian Church · $10 million campaign to renovate the smith
  $250,0002024 tax year
• Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center · Toward a $67 million campaign including capital
  $250,0002024 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.