2023 Mary Morton Parsons
Foundation Grant Recipients

(Note - Past grants are not necessarily indicative of future grants)
In 2023, The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation awarded grants to these organizations and projects:

Organization

Purpose

Amount

Alamo Addiction Recovery Center Inc.

to support capital improvements to the facility

$​25,000.00

Blessed Sacrament Huguenot School

support the Knight's Charge Capital Campaign to build a new student center

$​300,000.00

Blue Sky Fund

support expansion into a new community-centric office space

$​50,000.00

Chesapeake Bay Foundation

support repairs and enhancements at Port Isobel Island Environmental Education Center

$​159,000.00

Chrysler Museum of Art

creation of the Center for Advanced Education in Glass Arts and Sciences at The Perry Glass Studio

$​300,000.00

Colonial Heights Food Pantry Inc

support Capital Campaign to expand facility

$​45,000.00

Deltaville Maritime Museum & Holly Point Nature Park

to support the building of an Exhibition Center to house large maritime exhibits and serve as an events venue

$​50,000.00

Eastern Shore Coalition Against Domestic Violence

to support the Hope Harbor Capital Campaign

$​50,000.00

Elijah House Academy

creation of the Center for Advanced Education in Glass Arts and Sciences at The Perry Glass Studio

$​150,000.00

Elizabeth River Project

support the New Wave Campaign to construct a new Resilience Lab, expand the River Academy and expand education programs

$​50,000.00

Elk Hill Farm, Inc.

to support The Welcome Home! campaign to upgrade and preserve campus buildings for the future

$​150,000.00

Foundation for Historic Christ Church, Inc.

to support the construction and installation of a subsurface drainage system

$​50,000.00

Girls for a Change

"The One Million Reasons to Build" campaign to purchase, expand, and remodel the property

$​50,000.00

Heart Havens, Inc.

to support the construction of an addition to an existing home

$​50,000.00

Henrico Community Food Bank

creation of the Center for Advanced Education in Glass Arts and Sciences at The Perry Glass Studio

$​40,000.00

Homeward

to support Building Referral Pathways to address growing crisis of older adult homelessness

$​100,000.00

IT 4 Causes

to update core technology

$​40,000.00

Jewish Community Federation of Richmond

Memorial Gift In Honor of Amy Nisenson

$​50,000.00

Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden

THRIVE Capital Campaign

$​750,000.00

Mount Vernon Ladies' Association

to support the revitalization of the exhibition on George Washington's biography

$​200,000.00

Nauticus

to support the redevelopment of the entire museum and visitor experience space

$​150,000.00

NetworkPeninsula

to support technology needs

$​34,554.00

NextUp

update to the on-line evaluation system

$​85,000.00

Northstar Academy

support capital campaign and construction of new gymnasium and community center

$​250,000.00

Our Lady of Lourdes School

to support the building of a new wing

$​50,000.00

Peter Paul

support of capital upgrades to Coleman Center

$​250,000.00

Preservation Virginia

to support capital needs for proactive maintenance and visitor service improvements

$​300,000.00

Project: HOMES

support of the Bermuda Estates Mobile Home Park project

$​400,000.00

RampsRVA (Ramp Access Made Possible by Students)

support purchase of materials to build wheelchair ramps and shed for storage

$​40,000.00

Rappahannock Tribe of Virginia

to support the rehabilitation of the Chief's House tribal museum and Indigenous healing center

$​50,000.00

ReEstablish Richmond

support the purchase of a van

$​45,000.00

Richmond SPCA

to support capital improvements to the shelter

$​335,000.00

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Richmond

to support the construction of the Ronald McDonald House at VCU Children's Tower and the new guestroom Ronald McDonald House in Richmond

$​250,000.00

Sagamore Institute/Pathway to Promise

to expand throughout Central Virginia

$​200,000.00

Science Museum of Virginia

The Green project

$​500,000.00

Shenandoah University

to support the Amory renovation for the HIVE project (the Hub for Innovators, Veterans, and Entrepreneurs)

$100,000.00

Southampton County Historical Society

to support the new history museum building and install exhibits

$​100,000.00

St. John's Church Foundation

to support the 250th Campaign in advance of the 250th anniversary of Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty or give me death!" speech in 2025 through preservation of the site

$​150,000.00

Sweet Briar College

to support the renovation and preservation of the Pannell Galllery

$​100,000.00

Swift Creek Mill Theatre, Inc.

support of Lighting and Infrastructure Upgrade Project

$30,000.00

Tech For Troops

support purchase of a box truck

$​53,500.00

Valentine Richmond History Center

In Memory of Henry Lee Valentine II

$​10,00.00

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

to improve the accessibility of their facility through support of several capital improvements

$​50,000.00

Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy

to support upgrades to office building (headquarters) to make it more functional

$​35,000.00

Virginia Legal Aid Society

to support capital campaign to locate, acquire & renovate a new building to house the Suffolk office

$​100,000.00

Virginia Zoological Society

support capital improvements for the Greening World Project

$​50,000.00

Voices For Virginia's Children

support technology upgrades for a Digital World

$​50,000.00

Washington and Lee University

to support the construction of the new Lindley Center for Student Wellness

$​300,000.00