Louisiana · Private foundation
Donald Palmer Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2024
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,075,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 9
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $30M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Donald Palmer Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 86% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 11 | $1.9M | 82% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $350k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $35k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $15k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $325k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $190k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $235k | 25% |
| FY2017 | 9 | $287k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holy Cross School | $675,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Loyola University | $185,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Stuart Hall | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Louisiana Childrens Museum | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| St Michael Special School | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Donald Palmer Charitable Foundation
- How much does Donald Palmer Charitable Foundation give?
- Donald Palmer Charitable Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $1,925,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Donald Palmer Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (72%), Religion (21%), Health (4%).
- Who are Donald Palmer Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Holy Cross School ($675k), Loyola University ($185k), Stuart Hall ($50k).
- Does Donald Palmer Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Donald Palmer Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Donald Palmer Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Donald Palmer Charitable Foundation based?
- Donald Palmer Charitable Foundation is based in LA.
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