Iowa · 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.
- $67k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $29,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 12
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $411k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Palmer Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 | 8 | $67k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $67k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $105k | 75% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $38k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation | $110,160 | 3 | 0% |
| St Ambrose University | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Trinity Health Foundation | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Putnam Museum and Science Center | $16,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $11,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Illowa Council Inc Boy Scouts of America | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Living Lands & Waters | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| St Luke's Health Care Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hand in Hand | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Palmer College Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation | $110,160 | 3 | 0% |
| St Ambrose University | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Trinity Health Foundation | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Putnam Museum and Science Center | $16,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $11,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Illowa Council Inc Boy Scouts of America | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Living Lands & Waters | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| St Luke's Health Care Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hand in Hand | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Palmer College Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Wisconsin Platteville Alumni Association | $5,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Junior Achievement of the Heartland Inc | $3,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Mississippi Valley | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Quad City Electrical Joint Apprenticeship & Training Program | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Empower House | $2,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of the Iowa Mississippi Valley | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Crossroads Health Foundation | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Cancer Support Community Iowa & Nw Illinois | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($7k), 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: Scott County Regional Authority · Modern Woodmen of America · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · Quad Cities Community Foundation · Charles R and Nancy L Von Maur Charitable Foundation · Harold R Bechtel Charitable Trust · Ih Mississippi Valley Credit Union · Marie H Bechtel Charitable Trust · Roy J Carver Charitable Trust · Greenstate Foundation · Moline Foundation · Doris & Victor Day Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Palmer Family Foundation
- How much does Palmer Family Foundation give?
- Palmer Family Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $67,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 12 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Palmer Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (40%), Education (20%), Health (17%).
- Who are Palmer Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation ($110k), St Ambrose University ($40k), Trinity Health Foundation ($20k).
- Does Palmer Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Palmer Family 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 Palmer Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Scott County Regional Authority, Modern Woodmen of America, Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Palmer Family Foundation based?
- Palmer Family Foundation is based in IA.
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