· Private foundation
Palmer Foundation Inc
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $141k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BROTHERS KEEPER | $25,000 |
| INTERFAITH EMERGENCY SERVICES | $25,000 |
| MARION COUNTY SEXUAL ASSULT CENTER | $20,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $15,000 |
| OPEN ARMS | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF MARION CTY | $10,000 |
| MARION SENIOR SERVICES | $10,000 |
| ARNETTE HOUSE | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MARION COUNTY | $7,500 |
| MARION COUNTY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY | $6,000 |
| MARION COUNTY CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE | $6,000 |
| CF FOUNDATION | $5,250 |
| ADVENTHEALTH FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| SHARE THE LOVE OCALA | $5,000 |
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, $433k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
31 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 10 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- IEINTERFAITH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $201k · revenue +25%
- AHARNETTE HOUSE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +83%
- MSMARION SENIOR SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- WPWHIT PALMER MEML FD-ADVENT FOUNDATIone grant, 2021 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $10k
- ODOCALA DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTERone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
The goal of the Marion County Child Advocacy Center is to provide a safe place for children who are victims of sexual and physical abuse to have their stories clearly heard and begin the healing process. The Marion County Child Advocacy…
The mission is to assist the homeless and near-homeless in Marion County, Florida. The organization strives to maximize resources to prevent homelessness and eliminate gaps in services
The organization's mission is to support hospice of marion county, inc. which provides charitable hospice care, grief and bereavement services at no charge for anyone in marion county, dementia education and support, veteran programming…
To improve the health of the medically underserved population in and around marion county, florida by providing preventive and primary health care services to such persons in a manner that will best meet their needs and regardless of the…
A comprehensive, child-friendly facility where professionals from law enforcement, medical, child protection and therapeutic services collaborate to meet the individual needs of child victims and break the cycle of abuse.
Florida council for community mental health, inc. provides technical assistance and continuing education programs to community mental health providers and administrators in the state of florida.
Marion regional medical center, inc. owns and operates a 49 bed acute care hospital and a 79 bed nursing home located in hamilton, alabama called north mississippi medical center-hamilton (nmmc-hamilton). nmmc-hamilton is part of the north…
Hospice of martin & st. lucie, inc. exists to provide hospice, grief counseling, education and other services to patients and families, dealing with death and dying so that they might live as fully and comfortably as possible. hospice…
Through our volunteers, casa of marion county inc. advocates for abused and neglected children who need safe and permanent homes.
Mccoy is investing in youth today, improving conditions tomorrow. at the core of our approach are four strategic roles: advocate, resource, capacity builder, and convener. mccoy provides central indiana with the opportunity to support all…
To provide mental health and family support services to children and families in crisis that are in the foster care system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of Marion County Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Pearl Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 53 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 INTERFAITH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ARNETTE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MARION SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MARION COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE THE LOVE OCALA INC ↗
- Who funds Marion County Children's Avocacy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds United Way of Marion County Inc ↗
- Who funds PACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC ↗
- Who funds Marion County Children's Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Marion County Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds THE BOGGY CREEK GANG INC ↗
- Who funds Creative Services Inc ↗
- Who funds LOTUS MARION INC ↗
- Who funds AdventHealth Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds The Pearl Project Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED HANDS ↗
- Who funds TRANSITIONS LIFE CENTER & COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds OCALA FARM MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS IN HEALTH OCALA METRO INC ↗
- Who funds Redeemer Christian School Incorporated ↗
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: The Community Foundation for Ocala Marion County Inc · United Way of Marion County Inc · Browder Family Foundation · Enchanted Backpack · Clay Electric Foundation Inc · The Colen Foundation Inc · Munroe Regional Health System Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Lilac Foundation Corporation · The DeLuca Family Foundation · Mantz Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment 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 Foundation Inc 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.
- Creative Services Inc — 37% of income from government
- Marion County Children's Alliance Inc — 13% of income from government
- Arnette House Inc — 7% of income from government
- United Way of Marion County Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Pearl Project Inc — 2% of income from government
- Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% of income from government
- Arts in Health Ocala Metro Inc — 0% of income from government
- Marion Senior Services Inc — 0% 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.