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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.

$460k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
23
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$55,000
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$63k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$354kHuman Services$170kYouth Development$75kCommunity Improvement$35kHealth$30kEnvironment$25kEducation$20kCivil Rights$20kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Holly Palmer Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Joffrey Ballet$105,00020%
Renew Therapeutic Riding Center$95,00025%
The Arts Club of Chicago$50,00021%
Center on Halsted$50,00020%
Ragdale Foundation$41,40021%
The Arts of Life Inc$35,00021%
Mosaic Counseling$30,00021%
Resilience Advocates for Ending Violence$25,0001n/a
Saugatuck Dunes Coastal Alliance$25,00019%
The William a Farnsworth Library and Art Museum Inc$20,00010%
Ottawa News Network$20,0001n/a
The Tiny News Collective Inc$20,00010%
Daniel Murphy Scholarship Fund$15,00020%
The Michigan Women's Foundation$10,00010%
San Miguel Community Foundation$10,0001n/a
Point Foundation$5,00010%
Grand Rapids Art Museum$5,00010%
Holland Area Arts Council$2,50011%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($190k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Joffrey Ballet: $105,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRenew Therapeutic Riding Center: $95,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetThe Arts Club of Chicago: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCenter on Halsted: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRagdale Foundation: $41,400 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetThe Arts of Life Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMosaic Counseling: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSaugatuck Dunes Coastal Alliance: $25,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetThe William a Farnsworth Library and Art Museum Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Tiny News Collective Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDaniel Murphy Scholarship Fund: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Michigan Women's Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPoint Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGrand Rapids Art Museum: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHolland Area Arts Council: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area IncMI21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Holly Palmer Foundation

How much does Holly Palmer Foundation give?
Holly Palmer Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $460,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does Holly Palmer Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (47%), Human Services (22%), Youth Development (10%).
Who are Holly Palmer Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2025: The Joffrey Ballet ($105k), Renew Therapeutic Riding Center ($95k), The Arts Club of Chicago ($50k).
Does Holly Palmer 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 Holly Palmer Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc, Frey Foundation, Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Holly Palmer Foundation based?
Holly Palmer Foundation is based in MI.

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 26 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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