· Private foundation
Palmer Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OLATHE POLICE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSION | $4,000 |
| WHATSOEVER CIRCLE COMMUNITY HOUSE | $4,000 |
| CARRY THE CROSS MINISTRIES | $4,000 |
| GPS EDUCATION PARTNERS | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| MISSION SOUTHSIDE | $3,000 |
| STARFISH | $3,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN PORTLAND | $3,000 |
| PORTLAND OPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRIALIZATION CENTER | $3,000 |
| WORLD VISION | $3,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOC WI CHAPTER | $2,000 |
| VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT | $2,000 |
| ADVOCATES OF OZAUKEE COUNTY | $2,000 |
| CARE NET PREGNANCY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.
48 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 4 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE9× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +134%
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND6× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +17%- CTCARRY THE CROSS MINISTRIES5× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- FFFoundation for Grossmont and Cuyamaca Collegesgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +115%
- NANEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +108%
- MCMercy Corps2× · 2023–2024 · $3k · revenue -28%
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.
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.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
Eliminating barriers to employment by providing pathways for those who are underserved, underrepresented and disadvantaged who have a goal of building skills that lead to sustained employment and improved financial stability.
Kinship Community Food Center engages volunteers and neighborhood residents to end hunger, isolation, and poverty. Our innovative programs nourish food security and wellness, foster belonging and community engagement, and empower stability…
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
The open door is a leading hunger-relief organization serving dakota county, minnesota, where food insecurity is a growing challenge. the open door is dedicated to ending local hunger by providing access to healthy, fresh, and nutritious…
Pathways kitchen helps justice-impacted youth thrive over survive by providing training, work opportunities and individualized support to ensure they can chart their own path forward
Goodwill provides exceptional opportunities for people facing employment barriers.
Our mission is to create an environment where all citizens can live safely and have access to real opportunities.
The Welcome House is a non-profit, sober living, recovery program (incorporated in 1971) with the sole purpose of educating and rehabilitating the adult male alcoholic/ addict and the expressed mission of returning the individual to…
We partner with children and adults with disabilities and their families so they may live more meaningful, healthy, and independent lives in their homes and communities.
Cathedral center's mission is to provide a safe environment for women and families, while working to end homelessness one life at a time. the cathedral center serves unaccompanied women and families with children who are homeless or…
How this is measured
40 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. 40 of the 72 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds KINDNESS CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds LA CAUSA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds CARRY THE CROSS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds SLEEPYHEAD BEDS ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SHARING OF OZAUKEE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CARE NET PREGNANCY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND OPPORTUNITIES INDUST CENTER ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LEMONADE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Kathy's House Inc ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH BALLARD COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S RESOURCES OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds HOPE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds The Whole Person Inc ↗
- Who funds ROYAL ROSARIAN FOUNDATION PO BOX 8956 ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Servant Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Palmer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Palmer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
- Portland Opportunities Indust Center: 38% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
- New Avenues for Youth Inc: 20% of income from government
- Project Lemonade Inc: 15% of income from government
- Friends of the Children-Portland: 5% of income from government
How this is measured
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