· Private foundation
The Arnold D and Winifred W Palmer Foundation
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of THE ARNOLD D AND WINIFRED W PALMER FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST VINCENT COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| SETON HILL UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| YOUNGSTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT | $20,000 |
| CASA OF WESTMORELAND COUNTY | $20,000 |
| ADAMS MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $20,000 |
| LATROBE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| WESTMORELAND COUNTY AIRPORT AUTHORITY | $10,000 |
| FORT LIGONIER | $10,000 |
| LINCOLN HIGHWAY HERITAGE CORRIDOR | $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 (FY17–17, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of The Arnold D and Winifred W Palmer Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +37% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- SVSAINT VINCENT COLLEGE6× · 2019–2024 · $320k · revenue +19%
- FLFORT LIGONIER ASSOCIATION4× · 2018–2024 · $165k · revenue +2%
- AMADAMS MEMORIAL LIBRARY8× · 2017–2024 · $155k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- WHWESTMORELAND HUMAN OPPORTUNITIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $14k · revenue +76%
- FTFAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY #1graduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +319%
- WPWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCYone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +11%
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.
Promote civic, commercial, recreational, historical, environmental and general interest in the ligonier valley of westmoreland county pennsylvania
The historical society of mount lebanon serves and promotes the community by collecting, preserving, interpreting, and sharing its history in ways designed to inspire our present and guide our future.
See schedule oper the bylaws of the delaware & lehigh national heritage corridor(which were updated by the merged board of the national canal musuem and the d&l), our mission is to work with government entities, non-profit organizations…
To collect, preserve & publish the history & historical data relative to lehigh county for the education of the general public
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
The mission of the adamstown library is to maintain and improve the quality of life in our community by providing access to cultural, intellectual, and informational resources and programs to promote life-long learning for all ages. the…
The mission of lycoming college is to provide a distinguished baccalaureate education in the liberal arts and sciences within a coeducational, supportive, and residential setting.
The mission of the Laurel Historical Society is to encourage the understanding and preservation of the history and cultural heritage of Laurel.
Preserving the history and cultural artifacts from the Western Pennsylvania town of Leechburg.
The lancaster chamber of commerce & industry's mission is to create the environment, facilitate partnerships, and lead on issues that elevate business success. the chamber has 5 strategic priorities: public policy, workforce, business…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Latrobe Area Hospital Charitable Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Masters School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 25 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 SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FORT LIGONIER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ADAMS MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds SETON HILL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CASA OF WESTMORELAND INC ↗
- Who funds LATROBE CMTY REVITALIZATION PGMINC ↗
- Who funds LIGONIER VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LATROBE ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WESTMORELAND HUMAN OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY #1 ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MASTERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Friends of Ligonier Beach ↗
- Who funds LATROBE AREA HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds LATROBE AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor 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: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Katherine Mabis McKenna Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Laurel Highlands · Rk Mellon Family Foundation · Scott 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 The Arnold D and Winifred W Palmer 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.