· Private foundation
Mary Palmer Family Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ORLANDO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | $61,978 |
| UNITED ARTS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA | $12,075 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ORLANDO PHILHARMONIC ORCH | $1,640 |
| A GIFT FOR MUSIC | $1,500 |
| A GIFT FOR TEACHING | $1,500 |
| ORLANDO SHAKESPEARE THEATRE | $1,000 |
| ATLANTIC CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $1,000 |
| RENAISSANCE THEATRE COMPANY | $750 |
| DAVID T HOWARD MIDDLE SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $250 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $250 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $200 |
| FLORIDA MUSIC EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $200 |
| ORLANDO SINGS INC | $150 |
| ALZHEIMER DISEASE RESEARCH CENTER | $125 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
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 (FY17–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 5 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $262 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
- UAUNITED ARTS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC8× · 2017–2025 · $437k · revenue +180%
- OPORLANDO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC7× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +52%
- AGA GIFT FOR TEACHING INC8× · 2017–2025 · $73k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +30%
- ASATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAone grant, 2018 · $3k
- CCCREATIVE CITY PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +173%
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.
Central florida ballet's mission is to entertain, educate, and inspire through the universal art form of dance. with a diverse repertoire of dance productions and programs from classical to contemporary and beyond, each attendee is to be…
Central florida vocal arts and opera del sol exist to create a better central florida community through arts education, performance and appreciation. we strive to create equitable access to meaningful arts experiences for all people in our…
The mission of florida art association, inc. is to promote art education in florida through professional development, service, advancement of knowledge, and leadership.
The mission of florida grand opera is to enrich people's lives through an awareness and deeper appreciation of opera while supporting the operations of the greater miami opera and the opera guild, inc. by expanding its reach to diverse…
Guided by the vision of arts for every life, the dr. phillips center serves as a cultural conerstone for orlando and the seven-county region as well as the many visitors to the orlando area. we bring arts to life through performances,…
The mission of the florida ballet is to enrich and inspire the cultural landscape of our community through the education and art of classical ballet.
Sarasota Opera produces impassioned opera performances true to the vision of the composer, to entertain, enrich, educate, and inspire a life-long love of opera in our diverse and growing communities.
The mission of greater miami opera is to enrich people's lives through an awareness and deeper appreciation of opera. by expanding its reach to diverse communities throughout miami and fort lauderdale and wider audiences abroad creating a…
Provide operating support for the adrienne arsht center for the performing arts (a not-for-profit organization)by raising private contributions to help the center present high-quality performances and educational programs for south…
To provide educational programming services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Creative City Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Earthjustice. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 30% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
45 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. 45 of the 76 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 UNITED ARTS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds A GIFT FOR TEACHING INC ↗
- Who funds OPERA ORLANDO INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL FLORIDA COMMUNITY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds David T Howard Middle School Foundation ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC ↗
- Who funds THE FLORIDA MUSIC EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE CITY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MAD COW THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds RENAISSANCE THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR OSCEOLA EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds CELEBRATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Orlando Sings Inc ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO FAMILY STAGE INC ↗
- Who funds CREALDE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOBS PARTNERSHIP OF FLORIDA INC ↗
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 Dr P Phillips Foundation · United Arts of Central Florida Inc · Universal Orlando Foundation Inc · Central Florida Foundation · Orlando Health Inc · Magruder Chesley G Fdn Im · The David and Lyn Berelsman Family Charitable Foundation Trust · The Lee Foundation · Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation · Ginsburg Family Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Anderson-Devitt Foundation Inc
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 Mary Palmer Family Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Children's Home Society of Florida — 6% of income from government
- Atlantic Center for the Arts Inc — 5% of income from government
- United Arts of Central Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- Orlando Sings Inc — 0% of income from government
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Orlando Museum of Art Inc — 0% of income from government
- Garden Theatre Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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