· Private foundation
Palmer Home Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against -47% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
None
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
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 22 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · The Mid-Del Charitable Foundation · Crestlea Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Palmer Home Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Palmer Home Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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