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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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OLATHE POLICE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSION | $4,000 |
| WHATSOEVER CIRCLE COMMUNITY HOUSE | $4,000 |
| GPS EDUCATION PARTNERS | $4,000 |
| CARRY THE CROSS MINISTRIES | $4,000 |
| PORTLAND OPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRIALIZATION CENTER | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| WORLD VISION | $3,000 |
| STARFISH | $3,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN PORTLAND | $3,000 |
| MISSION SOUTHSIDE | $3,000 |
| ADVOCATES OF OZAUKEE COUNTY | $2,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS | $2,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOC WI CHAPTER | $2,000 |
| BALLARD CENTER | $2,000 |
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 (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. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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
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
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE9× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +134%
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-PORTLAND6× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +17%- SBSLEEPYHEAD BEDS9× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- FFFOUNDATION FOR GROSSMONT &one grant, 2018 · $3k
- MCMercy Corps2× · 2023–2024 · $3k · revenue -28%
- FFFoundation for Grossmont and Cuyamaca Collegesgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +115%
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
40 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. 40 of the 72 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 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 SLEEPYHEAD BEDS ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds CARE NET PREGNANCY CENTER OF MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SHARING OF OZAUKEE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND OPPORTUNITIES INDUST CENTER ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LEMONADE INC ↗
- Who funds Kathy's House Inc ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH BALLARD COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S RESOURCES OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds THE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROYAL ROSARIAN FOUNDATION PO BOX 8956 ↗
- Who funds The Whole Person 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: 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
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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 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
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.
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