· Private foundation
Florence B & Cornelia a Palmer Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $81k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $16,000 |
| ELGIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $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 |
| U46 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 23% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ESELGIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $191k · revenue +21%
- 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
- COCITY OF ELGINone grant, 2022 · $10k
- YYWCAone grant, 2022 · $10k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ELGIN PUBLIC MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds St Charles Singers ↗
- Who funds ELGIN COMMUNITY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ELGIN AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds U-46 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELGIN THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
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: Seigle Foundation · Grand Victoria Foundation · Efs Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Florence B & Cornelia a Palmer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Florence B & Cornelia a Palmer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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