· Private foundation
Palmer Home Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $271k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD BANK OF DE | $55,000 |
| MODERN MATURITY SENIOR CE | $45,000 |
| FREDERICA SENIOR CENTER | $35,000 |
| HARVEST YEARS SENIOR CENT | $27,000 |
| DELAWARE HOSPICE | $25,000 |
| CENTRAL DEL HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $25,000 |
| HARRINGTON SENIOR CENTER | $25,000 |
| MILFORD SENIOR CENTER | $23,000 |
| MILFORD HOUSING DEVELOPMENT | $20,000 |
| LILLIAN SMITH SENIOR CENTER | $19,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $15,000 |
| EDUCATION HEALTH & RESEARCH INT'L | $12,000 |
| MAMIE A WARREN SENIOR CENTER | $7,500 |
| ORCHARD CHURCH | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 (FY20–25, $777k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against -47% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- FBFOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $310k · revenue +31%
- HYHARVEST YEARS SENIOR CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $187k · revenue +27%
- FSFREDERICA SENIOR CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $185k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- WCWESLEY COLLEGE INCone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -47%
- CCCANCER CUPPORT COMMUNITY OF DEone grant, 2024 · $750
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.
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Community senior centerprovide meals to senior citizens & homebound citizens
To provide social, educational, recreational, physical and emotional support and entertainment to seniors.
This multi-functional senior center serves meals to seniors and handicapped, transports the elderly and frail to doctors, holds blood preasure clinics, and recreation.
Adult day care for frail older adults, particularly those suffering from some form of dementia.
Provide senior center operations including health education, recreation, information and assistance,visitation, outreach and other community awareness
To enrich and strengthen the lives of active older adults in their life's journey.
The organization provides services for the elderly including programs for alzheimer patients and day care services for senior citizens
To support and promote a means for maintaining a senior center in order to achieve specific goals, based on the needs and interests of older persons, those 50 and older except for those programs that receive state and federal funding which…
Wilmington senior center provides life-sustaining and life-enriching services, opportunities, and partnerships that have a positive impact on older adults' physical, mental, and social well-being and that contribute to future generations.
Commitment to delivering exceptional client service to nurture independence, improve quality of life for aging and disabled, help this population with the highest level of professional home health care as an alternative to higher cost…
To provide a family centered environment and include programs and activites that promote a healthy lifestyle for children, adults, and senior citizens
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milford Senior Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Education Health and Research International Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 22 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 FOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds HARVEST YEARS SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FREDERICA SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HARRINGTON SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MILFORD HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds LILLIAN SMITH SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds MILFORD SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MAMIE A WARREN SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION HEALTH AND RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE WELLNESS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER CARE CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds WESLEY COLLEGE 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: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · The Mid-Del Charitable Foundation · Crestlea Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Home 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.
- Education Health and Research International Inc — 100% of income from government
- Mamie a Warren Senior Center Inc — 65% of income from government
- Cancer Care Connection — 48% of income from government
- Harvest Years Senior Center Inc — 44% of income from government
- Frederica Senior Center Inc — 43% of income from government
- Milford Senior Center Inc — 42% of income from government
- Harrington Senior Center Inc — 42% of income from government
- Food Bank of Delaware Inc — 26% of income from government
- Delaware Hospice Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hope Wellness Center 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.
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