· Private foundation
Holly Palmer Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $335k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE JOFFERY BALLET | $55,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HOLLAND | $50,000 |
| CENTER ON HALSTED | $30,000 |
| ART OF LIFE | $25,000 |
| RESILIENCE | $25,000 |
| OX-BOW SCHOOL OF ARTS & ARTISTS RES | $25,000 |
| THE ARTS CLUB OF CHICAGO | $25,000 |
| RAGDALE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SAUGATUCK DUNES COASTAL ALLIANCE | $25,000 |
| MOSAIC COUNSELING | $20,000 |
| ACLU FUND OF MICHIGAN | $20,000 |
| RENEW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER | $20,000 |
| TINY NEWS COLLECTIVE | $20,000 |
| OTTAWA NEWS NETWORK | $20,000 |
| FARNSWORTH MUSEUM | $20,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $180k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 33% of those 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.
12 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $153k 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
- TJTHE JOFFREY BALLET2× · 2024–2025 · $105k · revenue +39%
- COCenter on Halsted2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +18%
- RFRagdale Foundation2× · 2024–2025 · $41k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF DRUMMOND ISLAND FIRE DEPone grant, 2024 · $10k
- TMTHE MICHIGAN WOMEN'S FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +5%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $5k
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 collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
Rochester art center offers the opportunity for all people to understand and value the arts through innovative experiences with contemporary art. through world-class exhibitions and programs, we present a welcoming, integrated, and diverse…
Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.
To help artists develop, present and discuss their practices by providing forums for idea exchange, interdisciplinary collaboration and experimental projects.
The mission of the northwest michigan arts & culture network ("the network") is to harness the collective power of the creative sector to cultivate vibrant communities by strengthening the regional ecosystem that supports arts and culture.…
Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…
In the belief that the visual arts are indispensable to a healthy community, it is the mission of the minnetonka center for the arts to provide teaching excellence, quality exhibitions, and cultural enrichment for people of all ages,…
CAC's programs reflect our commitment to empowering local artists through professional career training, exhibition and networking opportunities, and building a supportive patron base. Our philosophy is that by helping more artists sustain…
Inspire awareness, appreciation and passion for michigan's history and stories, culture and environment through the arts.
The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.
The luminarts cultural foundation cultivates chicago's vibrant arts community by supporting exemplary young artists through its competitive programs that offer financial awards, artistic opportunities, and mentoring that bridge the gap…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Michigan Women's Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The William a Farnsworth Library and Art Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 26 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 THE JOFFREY BALLET ↗
- Who funds RENEW THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Arts Club of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Center on Halsted ↗
- Who funds Ragdale Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE ARTS OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds MOSAIC COUNSELING ↗
- Who funds RESILIENCE ADVOCATES FOR ENDING VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds SAUGATUCK DUNES COASTAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds The Tiny News Collective Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WILLIAM A FARNSWORTH LIBRARY AND ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds SAN MIGUEL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MICHIGAN WOMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds POINT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOLLAND AREA ARTS COUNCIL ↗
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: The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Frey Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Dte Energy Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Holly 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.