· Private foundation
Florence B & Cornelia a Palmer Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of FLORENCE B & CORNELIA A PALMER FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $81k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELGIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $16,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,000 |
| CHILDREN'S THEATRE COMPANY OF ELGIN | $14,000 |
| ELGIN MASTER CHORAL | $13,500 |
| CHAMBER MUSIC ON THE FOX | $11,000 |
| ELGIN YOUTH SYMPHONY | $10,000 |
| ECC FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| STUDIO 10 NFP | $3,000 |
| FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $1,500 |
| U46 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 23% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- ESELGIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $191k · revenue +22%
- EMELGIN MASTER CHORALE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $141k · revenue +23%
- CMCHAMBER MUSIC ON THE FOX INC7× · 2017–2024 · $56k · revenue +133% · 36% of their budget
Funded once
- COCITY OF ELGIN-HEMMENSone grant, 2018 · $20k
- YYWCAone grant, 2022 · $10k
- COCITY OF ELGINone grant, 2022 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To establish and maintain a performing choral organization in the chicago area. to rehearse, produce and perform directed quality vocal works accompanied by trained muscians
Support for elgin school music
Enhance cultural arts in tiffin community
Youth dance performances
Musical and dramatic productions
The mission of the elgin youth symphony orchestra is to create a community of young musicians, enriching their lives and the lives of their families, schools, communities, and beyond, through the study and performance of excellent music.
We teach children acting, dance, and vocal skills. The teaching culminates in high-quality, low cost children's and youth theatrical performances. We serve all children including differently abled youth and socioeconomically challenged…
Promotion of performing arts
Utilizing historical documents and original musical scores and guided by modern research, early music missouri offers performances that reflect an historically informed approach to technique, interpretation and performance.
Performing Arts Group
Children's theater
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chamber Music On the Fox Inc and the most unlike its peers is U-46 Educational Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ELGIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ELGIN MASTER CHORALE INC ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC ON THE FOX INC ↗
- Who funds Soiree Lyrique NFP(Fox Valley Lyrical Productions) ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS THEATRE OF ELGIN & FOX VALLEY THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON WINGS ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds St Charles Singers ↗
- Who funds ELGIN PUBLIC MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ELGIN COMMUNITY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ELGIN AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds U-46 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELGIN THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Seigle Foundation · Grand Victoria Foundation · Efs Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Florence B & Cornelia a Palmer Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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