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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.

$62k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Youth Development$28kHealth$24kReligion$15kHuman Services$12kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kAnimals$10kArts & Culture$5kHousing & Shelter$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$998k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF MOBILE ANIMAL SHELTER$7,500
MAGIC MOMENTS INC$5,000
DISTINGUISHED YOUNG WOMEN FOUNDATION$5,000
PATHWAY TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD INC$5,000
A SERVANTS LOVE INCORPORATED$5,000
DANCE WITHOUT LIMITS FOUNDATION INC$5,000
CAMP CORRAL$5,000
RANSOM MINISTRIES INC$5,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF ALABAMA 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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FLOURISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%FOR HOPE US INC: $3k → 19%BUCKAROO FOUNDATION: $5k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$53k · 5 repeat orgs$70k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against -6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

$53k
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
-6%

Still filing today

100%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentReligionPublic Safety & DisasterAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MM
    MAGIC MOMENTS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $12k · revenue +20%
  • RM
    RANSOM MINISTRIES INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +28%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF MOBILE ANIMAL SHELTER
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • I4
    ISAIAH 42 12 MISSIONS
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -19%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $7k
  • BD
    BALLER DREAM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +7%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Mobile Inc

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…

Human Services
2
Debbie Chisholm Memorial Found

Granted wishes to many terminally ill and catastrophically ill children in the riverside co funds were raised through various fundingraising efforts of the organization

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3
Dalmatian Dreams Dba Dream Foundation

Dream foundation serves terminally-ill adults and their families by providing end-of-life dreams that offer inspiration, comfort and closure.

Human Services
4
Special Spaces Inc

To provide dream bedrooms for children with cancer.

Health
5
The Impossible Dream Inc

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

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6
Bounce Children's Foundation

Bounce children's foundation transforms the lives of chronically ill children, and their families, shifting all from surviving to thriving.

Health
7
Cherished Creations Inc

To assist in the lives of seriously ill children

Philanthropy
8
Carolyn Jane Foundation

The carolyn jane foundation is focused on bringing education and medical care to rural areas. they specialize in orthopedic spinal care to help children.

International
9
Make-a-Wish Foundation of Alabama

The make-a-wish foundation of alabama creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

Health
10
Rescue International

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,…

Religion
11
Bresh Foundation

Charity for disabled children

Human Services
12
Room to Dream Foundation Inc

To comfort children with serious medical conditions.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Camp Corral; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
6/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $6,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE ALABAMA INC: $5,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE ALABAMA INCPATHWAY TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD INC: $5,000 · OtherPATHWAY TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD INCA SERVANTS LOVE INCORPORATED: $5,000 · OtherA SERVANTS LOVE INCORPORATEDBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $3,500 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERSRapahope Childrens Retreat Foundation Inc: $2,500 · OtherRapahope Childrens Retreat Foundation I…GOODWILL EASTER SEALS OF GULF COAST: $1,500 · OtherTAPS DRILL: $1,500 · OtherUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF MOBILE INC: $1,500 · OtherDance Without Limits Foundation Inc: $5,000 · OtherDance Without Limits Foundation IncMcKemie Place Inc: $3,000 · OtherMcKemie Place IncSETH ALEXANDER MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $2,500 · OtherSETH ALEXANDER MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUN…CAMP CORRAL: $11,500 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP CORRALDISTINGUISHED YOUNG WOMEN FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentDISTINGUISHED YOUNG…MAGIC MOMENTS: $11,500 · HealthMAGIC MOMENTSBALLER DREAM FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthBALLER DREAM FOU…AUTISM SPEAKS INC: $1,000 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS IN…BUCKAROO FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesBUCKAROO F…FOR HOPE US INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesFOR HOPE U…FLOURISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Human ServicesFLOURISH C…PENELOPE HOUSE INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesPENELOPE H…ISAIAH 42 12 MISSIONS: $10,000 · ReligionISAIAH 42…RANSOM MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterRANSOM MI…FRIENDS OF MOBILE ANIMAL SHELTER: $9,500 · Animals
Other$42,500Youth Development$21,500Health$17,500Human Services$11,500Religion$10,000Public Safety & Disaster$10,000Animals$9,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAGIC MOMENTS: $11,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCAMP CORRAL: $11,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetISAIAH 42 12 MISSIONS: $10,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetRANSOM MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDISTINGUISHED YOUNG WOMEN FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF MOBILE ANIMAL SHELTER: $9,500 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE ALABAMA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBALLER DREAM FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetA SERVANTS LOVE INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetBUCKAROO FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetDance Without Limits Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetMcKemie Place Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSETH ALEXANDER MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $2,500 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetFOR HOPE US INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLOURISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetRapahope Childrens Retreat Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPENELOPE HOUSE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF MOBILE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Alabama Power Foundat…Crampton Trust #12550…The Daniel Foundation…Dog Hill FoundationSkyros Benevolent Soc…Cd Helen and Jeff Gla…As Mitchell Foundatio…J L Bedsole Foundatio…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…The Pfizer Foundation…Paypal Charitable Giv…
Alabama Power Foundation IncAL21.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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