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Palladium 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.

$66M
Granted FY2025still arriving
97
Grants FY2025still arriving
21
States reached
$28M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Environment$66MFood & Nutrition$28MAnimals$8.9MArts & Culture$6.6MScience & Tech$4.6MHealth$4.0MHuman Services$3.0MHousing & Shelter$2.9MOther$0
02FY2025 · 97 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k30 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $526k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+19 grants · $63M
$15,000
Median grant
21
States reached
$72M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GLYNWOOD CENTER$27,510,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF UTAH$9,725,000
UTAH CLEAN ENERGY$5,120,000
THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY$4,000,000
FRIENDS OF CORNELL LAB$3,500,000
TRACY AVIARY$2,250,000
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY$2,000,000
BEARS EARS PARTNERSHIP$1,725,000
CONSERVATION LANDS FOUNDATION$1,200,000
MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$1,160,000
INTERNATIONAL CRANE FUND$1,020,000
GRAND CANYON TRUST$1,000,000
MISS HALLS HIGH SCHOOL$700,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND$600,000
Individual grant recipient$500,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MESA COUNTY PARTNERS: $10k → 11%INTERMOUNTAIN THERAPY ANIMALS: $10k → 8%SEEK HAVEN: $2k → 11%SEEK HAVEN: $2k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ME
VT
WA
ID
MT
WI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
PA
CA
UT
CO
NE
VA
AZ
NC
SC
DC
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$71M · 53 repeat orgs$28M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +3% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

53 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 46 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
26

Total granted

$71M
$19M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
0%

Still filing today

64%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.3M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentAnimalsArts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesOther

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

  • GC
    GLYNWOOD CENTER INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $28M · revenue +581% · 79% of their budget
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF CEDAR MESA
    3× · 2023–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +85% · 31% of their budget
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF TRACY AVIARY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +217%

Funded once

  • SO
    STATE OF UTAH
    one grant, 2021 · $5.0M
  • MF
    MOAB FREE HEALTH CLINIC
    one grant, 2022 · $4.0M · revenue -3%
  • SU
    SOUTHEASTERN UTAH SOCIETY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES INC
    one grant, 2019 · $3.5M · revenue -87% · 95% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Utah Public Lands Alliance
Education
2
Idaho Conservation League Inc

Icl's mission is to create a conservation community and pragmatic, enduring solutions that protect and restore the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the land and wildlife you love.

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3
Colorado Open Lands

Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.

Environment
4
Greater Yellowstone Coalition

Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.

Environment
5
Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment
6
Utah Geological Foundation
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7
Western Rivers Conservancy

Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…

Environment
8
Montana Wildlife Federation

The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.

Animals
9
Cascadia Wildlands

Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…

Environment
10
Teton Regional Land Trust Inc

The mission of the teton regional land trust is to conserve working farms and ranches, fish and wildlife habitat, and scenic open spaces in eastern idaho for this and future generations.

Environment
11
The Wildlands Conservancy

The Wildlands Conservancy's dual mission is to preserve the beauty and biodiversity of the earth and to provide programs so that children may know the wonder and joy of nature.

Environment
12
Swan Valley Connections

Maintain the swan valley's unique natural resources and ensure that a vibrant human community can sustain itself through stewardship, education, economic viability, and conservation on public and private lands.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Utah Open Lands Conservation Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dry Creek Charity. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Affordable Housing Developm…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Local Food System Organizat…Independent K-12 SchoolsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Community Arts CentersAnimal Rescue and ShelterEquine Therapy ProgramsFood Banks and PantriesHealth Access Advocacy and …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number29%5%<5yr17%7%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr15%22%20–35yr8%32%35–55yr12%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value29%2%<5yr17%2%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr15%36%20–35yr8%12%35–55yr12%37%55yr+

The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/82
the rest of the field
15%
1,823/12,321

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.

04the grantee network

77 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. 77 of the 126 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
76/77
Grantees still filing
36/77
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $27,735,157 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYSTATE OF UTAH — $5,001,082 · OtherSTATE OF UTAHFRIENDS OF CORNELL LAB — $4,500,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF CORNELL LABNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY — $4,050,000 · OtherNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETYSOUTHEASTERN UTAH SOCIETY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES INC — $3,500,000 · OtherSOUTHEASTERN UTAH SOCIETY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES INCIndividual grant recipient — $2,810,340 · OtherFRIENDS OF CEDAR MESA — $2,625,000 · OtherMUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $2,170,000 · Other+67 more — $10,022,750 · Other+67 moreGLYNWOOD CENTER INC — $27,610,000 · Public BenefitGLYNWOOD CENTER INCTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $8,000,000 · EnvironmentTHE WILDERNESS SOC…UTAH CLEAN ENERGY ALLIANCE INC — $5,120,000 · EnvironmentUTAH CLEAN ENERGY …THE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC — $2,000,000 · EnvironmentTHE GRAND CANYON T…Conservation Lands Foundation — $1,200,000 · EnvironmentConservation Lands…Confluence Center of Colorado Inc — $1,000,000 · EnvironmentWAVE HILL INCORPORATED — $795,000 · Environment+28 more — $2,656,000 · Environment+28 moreMOAB FREE HEALTH CLINIC — $4,000,000 · HealthRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc — $1,010,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY REBUILDS — $400,000 · Health+1 more — $6,000 · HealthCANYONLANDS FIELD INSTITUTE INC — $4,645,000 · Arts & CultureMOAB MUSIC FESTIVAL INC — $290,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH FILM CENTER — $200,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC — $200,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $10,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF TRACY AVIARY — $2,510,000 · AnimalsHAWKWATCH INTERNATIONAL INC — $275,000 · AnimalsNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $150,000 · Animals+3 more — $35,000 · AnimalsMoab Area Community Land Trust — $2,500,164 · Housing & Shelter
Other$62,414,329Public Benefit$27,610,000Environment$20,771,000Health$5,416,000Arts & Culture$5,345,000Animals$2,970,000Housing & Shelter$2,500,164

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $27,735,157 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetGLYNWOOD CENTER INC — $27,610,000 over 2y, 79% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $8,000,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetCANYONLANDS FIELD INSTITUTE INC — $4,645,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN UTAH SOCIETY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES INC — $3,500,000 over 1y, 95% of budgetFRIENDS OF CEDAR MESA — $2,625,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetFRIENDS OF TRACY AVIARY — $2,510,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetMoab Area Community Land Trust — $2,500,164 over 1y, 89% of budgetTHE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC — $2,000,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetMISS HALL'S SCHOOL INC — $1,210,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetConservation Lands Foundation — $1,200,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of the Intermountain Area Inc — $1,010,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetConfluence Center of Colorado Inc — $1,000,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetWAVE HILL INCORPORATED — $795,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $600,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSummit Land Conservancy — $500,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetLIVING RIVERS — $290,000 over 3y, 75% of budgetMOAB MUSIC FESTIVAL INC — $290,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetRIVERSEDGE WEST — $280,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetHAWKWATCH INTERNATIONAL INC — $275,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetMOAB VALLEY MULTICULTURAL CENTER — $220,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetWASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS — $210,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER — $200,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC — $200,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetYOUTH GARDEN PROJECT — $195,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC — $115,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS LAND TRUST — $100,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetScenic Hudson Inc — $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMONTANA NATURAL HISTORY CENTER — $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetFRIENDS OF ARCHES&CANYONLANDS PARKS BATES WILSON LEGACY FUND — $80,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSCIENCE MOAB ENGAGEMENT INITIATIVE — $75,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetDUTCHESS DAY SCHOOL — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANET WOMEN — $40,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetDUTCHESS LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetARTSPACE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUTAH PHYSICIANS FOR A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT — $20,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetOWL RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF MOAB VALLEY — $20,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetGALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUTAH OPEN LANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS Of Great Salt Lake — $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCOLORADO PLATEAU FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWRITERS ON THE RANGE CORP — $10,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetTHE PEREGRINE FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Bird Conservancy — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIVE VALLEYS LAND TRUST — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIntermountain Therapy Animals — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budget
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.

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.

PatagoniaorgGeorge S and Dolores …The Community Foundat…The Walbridge FundWillard L Eccles Char…The Nature ConservancyLawrence & Janet Dee …Pacificorp Foundation…Sorenson Legacy Found…My Good FundDavid Kelby Johnson M…Alpenglow Foundation
PatagoniaorgCA49.6× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · The Community Foundation of Utah · The Walbridge Fund · Willard L Eccles Charitable Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Pacificorp Foundation Aka Pacific Power Foundation Aka Rocky Mountain Power Foundati · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · My Good Fund · David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation · Alpenglow Foundation

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 Palladium 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Manomet Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Oregon Natural Desert Association — 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
29report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Palladium Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Palladium Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 126 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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