Texas · Private foundation
Palmer 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.
- $350k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $70,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 23
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Palmer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 | 17 | $350k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $312k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $320k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $301k | 57% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $300k | 5% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $318k | 9% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $287k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Antonio Food Bank | $273,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The University of Texas Foundation Inc | $170,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Depelchin Children's Center | $168,500 | 7 | 0% |
| St John's School | $155,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Kids' Meals Inc | $124,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Casa de Esperanza | $110,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Casa de Esperanza de Los Ninos Inc | $99,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Houston Area Women's Center | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| National Parks Conservation Association | $75,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston | $73,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($459k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Palmer 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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Palmer Foundation
- How much does Palmer Foundation give?
- Palmer Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $350,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 23 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Palmer Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (26%), Human Services (22%), Education (21%).
- Who are Palmer Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: San Antonio Food Bank ($273k), The University of Texas Foundation Inc ($170k), Depelchin Children's Center ($169k).
- Does Palmer Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Palmer 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 Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
- Where is Palmer Foundation based?
- Palmer Foundation is based in TX.
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