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Palmer Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF MOBILE ANIMAL SHELTER | $7,500 |
| CAMP CORRAL | $5,000 |
| DISTINGUISHED YOUNG WOMEN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PATHWAY TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD INC | $5,000 |
| MAGIC MOMENTS INC | $5,000 |
| RANSOM MINISTRIES INC | $5,000 |
| A SERVANTS LOVE INCORPORATED | $5,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ALABAMA INC | $5,000 |
| DANCE WITHOUT LIMITS FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $3,500 |
| MCKEMIE PLACE INC | $3,000 |
| RAPAHOPE CHILDREN'S RETREAT FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| SETH ALEXANDER MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $2,500 |
| TAPS DRILL | $1,500 |
| AUTISM SPEAKS INC | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MMMAGIC MOMENTS2× · 2023–2024 · $12k · revenue +20%
- RMRANSOM MINISTRIES INC2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +28%
- FOFRIENDS OF MOBILE ANIMAL SHELTER2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- I4ISAIAH 42 12 MISSIONSone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -19%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $7k
- BFBUCKAROO FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -50%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The Organization was formed to build, own and operate a Ronald McDonald House in Mobile, Alabama. The facility provides overnight lodging for children and their parents who travel long distances to Mobile area hospitals for various…
Granted wishes to many terminally ill and catastrophically ill children in the riverside co funds were raised through various fundingraising efforts of the organization
Dream foundation serves terminally-ill adults and their families by providing end-of-life dreams that offer inspiration, comfort and closure.
To provide dream bedrooms for children with cancer.
The income helps make dreams possible for the chronically ill and needy and also supports a playground for physically challenged as well as able bodied individuals
Bounce children's foundation transforms the lives of chronically ill children, and their families, shifting all from surviving to thriving.
To assist in the lives of seriously ill children
The carolyn jane foundation is focused on bringing education and medical care to rural areas. they specialize in orthopedic spinal care to help children.
The make-a-wish foundation of alabama creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.
Missions.me empowers people to change the world. whether it is introducing a street orphan to their new home, leading a nation in a prayer of reconciliation, offering medical relief to the suffering, or hosting large missions teams,…
Charity for disabled children
To comfort children with serious medical conditions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Camp Corral and the most unlike its peers is Isaiah 42 12 Missions. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 24 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds MAGIC MOMENTS ↗
- Who funds CAMP CORRAL ↗
- Who funds ISAIAH 42 12 MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds DISTINGUISHED YOUNG WOMEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RANSOM MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MOBILE ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds A SERVANTS LOVE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Dance Without Limits Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BUCKAROO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BALLER DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds McKemie Place Inc ↗
- Who funds FOR HOPE US INC ↗
- Who funds Rapahope Childrens Retreat Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SETH ALEXANDER MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds FLOURISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF MOBILE INC ↗
- Who funds PENELOPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Dog Hill Foundation · Skyros Benevolent Society · Cd Helen and Jeff Glaze Foundation · As Mitchell Foundation Inc · J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
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 Palmer Family 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.
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.