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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Board of Trustees of Parnassus Income Funds and Parnassus Funds and Shareholders of Parnassus Core Equity Fund, Parnassus Growth Equity Fund, Parnassus Value Equity Fund, Parnassus Mid Cap Fund, Parnassus Mid Cap Growth Fund and Parnassus Fixed Income Fund

Opinions on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying statements of assets and liabilities, including the portfolios of investments, of Parnassus Core Equity Fund and Parnassus Fixed Income Fund (constituting Parnassus Income Funds) and Parnassus Growth Equity Fund, Parnassus Value Equity Fund, Parnassus Mid Cap Fund and Parnassus Mid Cap Growth Fund (constituting Parnassus Funds) (hereafter collectively referred to as the "Funds") as of December 31, 2023, the related statements of operations and of changes in net assets for each of the periods indicated in the table below, including the related notes, and the financial highlights for each of the periods indicated in the table below (collectively referred to as the "financial statements"). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of each of the Funds as of December 31, 2023, the results of each of their operations, the changes in each of their net assets, and each of the financial highlights for the periods indicated in the table below, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

 

Fund

 

Statement of Operations

 

Statement of Changes in

 

Financial Highlights

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Assets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Parnassus Core Equity

 

For the year ended

 

For each of the two

 

For each of the three

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fund

 

December 31, 2023

 

years in the period

 

years in the period

 

 

 

 

 

ended December 31,

 

ended December 31,

 

 

 

 

2023

2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Parnassus Growth

For the year ended

For the year ended

Equity Fund

December 31, 2023

December 31, 2023 and

 

 

the period December 28,

 

 

2022 (commencement

 

 

of operations) through

 

 

December 31, 2022

For the year ended December 31, 2023 and the period December 28, 2022 (commencement of operations) through December 31, 2022

 

Parnassus Value Equity

 

For the year ended

 

For each of the two

 

For each of the three

 

 

Fund

 

December 31, 2023

 

years in the period

 

years in the period

 

 

 

 

 

 

ended December 31,

 

ended December 31,

 

 

 

 

 

2023

2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Parnassus Mid Cap Fund

 

For the year ended

 

For each of the two

 

For each of the three

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 31, 2023

 

years in the period

 

years in the period

 

 

 

 

 

 

ended December 31,

 

ended December 31,

 

 

 

 

 

2023

2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Parnassus Mid Cap

 

For the year ended

 

For each of the two

 

For each of the three

 

 

Growth Fund

 

December 31, 2023

 

years in the period

 

years in the period

 

 

 

 

 

 

ended December 31,

 

ended December 31,

 

 

 

 

 

2023

 

2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Parnassus Fixed Income

For the year ended

For each of the two

For each of the three

Fund

December 31, 2023

years in the period

years in the period

 

 

ended December 31,

ended December 31,

 

 

2023

2023

 

 

 

 

The financial statements of Parnassus Core Equity Fund, Parnassus Value Equity Fund, Parnassus Mid Cap Fund, Parnassus Mid Cap Growth Fund and Parnassus Fixed Income Fund as of and for the year ended December 31, 2020 and the financial highlights for each of the periods ended on or prior to December 31, 2020 (not presented herein, other than the financial highlights) were audited by other auditors whose report dated January 28, 2021 expressed an unqualified opinion on those financial statements and financial highlights.

Basis for Opinions

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Funds' management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Funds' financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Funds in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits of these financial statements in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of December 31, 2023 by correspondence with the custodians, and brokers; when replies were not received from brokers, we performed other auditing procedures. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinions.

/s/PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP San Francisco, CA

January 26, 2024

We have served as the auditor of one or more investment companies in Parnassus Income Funds and Parnassus Funds since 2021.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, 405 Howard Street, Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94105

T: (415) 498 5000, www. pwc.com/us