New York · Private foundation
Michael Palm 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.
- $63k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 11
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Michael Palm Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $63k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $70k | 44% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $43k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $44k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $49k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $28k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $92k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading Education Foundation | $81,700 | 5 | 10% |
| Christopher Street West Association Inc | $27,250 | 1 | 1% |
| Stanley Family Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Alvernia University | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Foundation for Reading Area Community College | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Ann's Warehouse Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Roundabout Theatre Company Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Telluride AIDS Benefit Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Haymakers for Hope Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Southern Documentary Fund | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading Education Foundation | $81,700 | 5 | 10% |
| Christopher Street West Association Inc | $27,250 | 1 | 1% |
| Stanley Family Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Alvernia University | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Foundation for Reading Area Community College | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Ann's Warehouse Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Roundabout Theatre Company Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Telluride AIDS Benefit Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Haymakers for Hope Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Southern Documentary Fund | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Girls on the Run of Berks County | $5,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Fractured Atlas Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| West Reading Community Revitalization Foundation | $1,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Breast Cancer Support Services of Berks County | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($198k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Michael Palm Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Stanley Family Foundation · Berks County Community Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Michael Palm Foundation
- How much does Michael Palm Foundation give?
- Michael Palm Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $62,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 11 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Michael Palm Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (32%), Education (28%), Civil Rights (15%).
- Who are Michael Palm Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Reading Education Foundation ($82k), Christopher Street West Association Inc ($27k), Stanley Family Foundation ($20k).
- Does Michael Palm Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Michael Palm 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 Michael Palm Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Stanley Family Foundation, Berks County Community Foundation Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is Michael Palm Foundation based?
- Michael Palm Foundation is based in NY.
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