Illinois · Private foundation
Palmer Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $37k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 19
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $28k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 28
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $834k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations Palmer Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 19 | $28k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $29k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $27k | 65% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $34k | 46% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $39k | 25% |
| FY2017 | 25 | $40k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aurora University | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry | $7,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Indiana University Foundation | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Waubonsee Community College Foundation | $6,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Lake Forest College | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| St Mary's Food Bank Alliance | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Benet Academy | $5,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry | $5,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida Inc | $5,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Musical Instrument Museum | $4,648 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($80k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Palmer Family 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: The Chicago Community Trust · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Dunham Fund · Healthy Communities Foundation · Carol Bernick Family Foundation · Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation
How this is measured
About Palmer Family Foundation
- How much does Palmer Family Foundation give?
- Palmer Family Foundation reported 19 itemized grants totaling $27,500, out of $36,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Palmer Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (17%), Food & Nutrition (8%), Philanthropy (6%).
- Who are Palmer Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Aurora University ($10k), Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry ($7k), Indiana University Foundation ($6k).
- Does Palmer Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Palmer Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Palmer Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, AbbVie Foundation.
- Where is Palmer Family Foundation based?
- Palmer Family Foundation is based in IL.
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