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John N Palmer Foundation at a glance

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John N 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.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$341kHealth$61kEmployment$33kEducation$28kPhilanthropy$23kPublic Benefit$20kSocial Science$10kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$10k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE MIND CENTER AT UMMC$5,000
JACKSON HEART FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $500 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$438k · 9 repeat orgs$106k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +120% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
14

Total granted

$438k
$106k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+120%
+41%

Still filing today

56%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureSocial ScienceHealthAnimalsHuman ServicesOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • UI
    USA INTERNATIONAL BALLET COMPETITION
    5× · 2017–2024 · $93k · revenue +120%
  • MS
    MISSISSIPPI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2017–2021 · $40k · revenue +55%
  • BASE CAMP CODING ACADEMY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $33k · revenue +151%

Funded once

  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MS
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • DC
    Diplomacy Center Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -47%
  • TG
    THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -17%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University of Southern Mississippi Foundation

To build relationships with alumni and friends in order to secure private funds and other resources for the benefit of the university of southern mississippi (usm). the foundation receives, invests and distributes private gifts in support…

Education
2
Mississippi State University Foundation Inc

Mississippi state university foundation, inc. is a non-profit organization that assists mississippi state university in accomplishing its goals and mission by cultivating and soliciting private support and ensuring stewardship for all…

Human Services
3
University of Southern Mississippi Research Foundation

The mission of the foundation is to oversee the acquisition of gifts, contributions and grants for sponsored research for individuals, industries, private organizations and government agencies and to assist with transferring technology…

Education
4
Mississippi Children's Museum

We create unparalleled experiences to inspire excellence and a lifelong joy of learning.

Arts & Culture
5
Methodist Foundation of Mississippi Inc

The foundation exists to cultivate and administer current and deferred gifts for the benefit of ms united methodist related institutions, agencies, local churches, and other ministries for charitable purposes and support and to educate…

Religion
6
Ms Museum of Natural Science Foundation

The foundation was established to support the mississippi museum of natural science though receiving, maintaining and distributing funds exclusively for the benefit of the museum.

Arts & Culture
7
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
8
Mississippi Land Trust

To protect fish and wildlife habitat throughout mississippi

Environment
9
Our Mississippi Foundation
Community Improvement
10
The University of Montana Foundation

The university of montana foundation inspires philanthropic support to enhance excellence and opportunity at the university of montana.

Education
11
Mississippi Center for Public Policy

To advance the ideals of limited government, free markets, and strong families by providing government officials, the media, and the public with information and perspective to help them understand and defend liberty.

Education
12
Mississippi Community College Foundation

To promote, encourage, and assist all forms of education, research, and economic development conducted by the fifteen community and junior colleges in the state of mississippi by receiving, soliciting, accepting, and administering funds…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Mississippi Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Jackson Heart Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MISSISSIPPI MUSEUMS CAMPAIGN: $150,000 · OtherMISSISSIPPI MUSEUMS CAMPAIGNUSA INTERNATIONAL BALLET COMPETITION: $92,500 · OtherUSA INTERNATIONAL BALLET COMPETITIONUMMC STUDENT PROFESSIONALISM AND ETHICS ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · OtherUMMC STUDENT PROFESSIONALISM AND ETHICS ASSOCIATIONGRAMMY MUSEUM MISSISSIPPI: $30,000 · OtherGRAMMY MUSEUM MISSISSIPPICOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MS: $20,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MS+7 more: $28,270 · Other+7 moreBASE CAMP CODING ACADEMY: $33,320 · EducationBASE CAMP CODING ACADE…JACKSON HEART FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationJACKSON HEART FOUNDATI…UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSI…THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUN…+1 more: $2,600 · EducationMISSISSIPPI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $40,000 · Arts & CultureMISSISSIPPI …Diplomacy Center Foundation: $20,000 · Arts & CultureDiplomacy Ce…VISION TO LEARN: $10,000 · HealthTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 · Social ScienceWILDLIFE MISSISSIPPI: $2,500 · AnimalsCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI: $2,500 · PhilanthropyCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $500 · Human Services
Other$350,770Education$110,920Arts & Culture$60,000Health$10,000Social Science$10,000Animals$2,500Philanthropy$2,500Human Services$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUSA INTERNATIONAL BALLET COMPETITION: $92,500 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetMISSISSIPPI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $40,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBASE CAMP CODING ACADEMY: $33,320 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetJACKSON HEART FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDiplomacy Center Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVISION TO LEARN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEWPOT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLUE MOUNTAIN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY: $2,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILDLIFE MISSISSIPPI: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Selby and Richard McR…Van Devender Family F…Ergon Foundation IncCommunity Foundation …Walker FoundationRaymond James Charita…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Selby and Richard McRae FoundationMS17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Selby and Richard McRae Foundation · Van Devender Family Foundation William Van Devender Trustee · Ergon Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Mississippi · Walker Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization John N Palmer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John N Palmer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 24 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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