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Gh Palmer Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$500k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$277,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$277,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 11
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$26k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Gh Palmer Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$500k0%
FY20233$1.5M0%
FY20225$2.4M40%
FY20213$1.5M0%
FY20206$1.4M50%
FY201911$3.8M55%
FY20187$6.5M43%
FY20176$503kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$8.0MArts & Culture$7.1MPhilanthropy$1.8MHealth$150kPublic Safety & Disaster$136kHousing & Shelter$28kRecreation & Sports$25kYouth Development$14kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 15 grantees
All grantees of Gh Palmer Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Pepperdine University$6,901,00071%
Museum Associates$6,497,75981%
Harvard-Westlake School$1,100,00011%
Western Wall Heritage Foundation Inc$250,00013%
Nicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation$150,00030%
Los Angeles Police Foundation$131,00032%
The Midnight Mission$27,50030%
The Daily Caller News Foundation$25,00011%
Maccabi World Union Inc$20,00011%
The Historic Italian Hall Foundation$20,00023%
Homeboy Industries$10,00010%
Jewish World Watch$10,00011%
Santa Barbara Police Foundation$5,00011%
Children Uniting Nations Inc$2,500111%
The Rape Foundation$1,00010%

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.9M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gh Palmer Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPepperdine University: $6,901,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetMuseum Associates: $6,497,759 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetHarvard-Westlake School: $1,100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWestern Wall Heritage Foundation Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation: $150,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLos Angeles Police Foundation: $131,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetThe Midnight Mission: $27,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Daily Caller News Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMaccabi World Union Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Historic Italian Hall Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetHomeboy Industries: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJewish World Watch: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSanta Barbara Police Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetChildren Uniting Nations Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetThe Rape Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY14.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Gh Palmer Family Foundation

How much does Gh Palmer Family Foundation give?
Gh Palmer Family Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $499,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Gh Palmer Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (44%), Arts & Culture (39%), Philanthropy (10%).
Who are Gh Palmer Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Pepperdine University ($6.9M), Museum Associates ($6.5M), Harvard-Westlake School ($1.1M).
Does Gh Palmer Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Gh Palmer Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Gh Palmer Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, National Philanthropic Trust, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is Gh Palmer Family Foundation based?
Gh Palmer Family Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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