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The James G and Purcell S Palmer Found at a glance

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The James G and Purcell S Palmer Found

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.

$350k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$509kArts & Culture$130kPhilanthropy$13kPublic Benefit$4kHealth$3kHousing & Shelter$250
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THOMAS COLE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE$100,000
COLUMBIA GREENE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$100,000
VASSAR COLLEGE$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON$50,390
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CLOSE ENCOUNTERSMUSIC: $4k → 12%BARD COLLEGE: $500 → 9%OTHER: $6k → 11%WGXC: $500 → 11%WMHT: $3k → 11%HOSPICE: $1k → 14%DANCERS RESPONDING TO AIDS: $500 → 17%UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON: $193k → 14%CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH MUSIC: $2k → 12%VASSAR FUND: $1k → 9%PS 21: $250 → 11%THOMAS COLE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE: $100k → 11%WMHT: $1k → 11%DANCERS RESPONDING TO AIDS: $350 → 17%UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON: $50k → 14%CLOSE ENCOUNTERSMUSIC: $2k → 12%VASSAR COLLEGE: $100k → 9%COLUMBIA GREENE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%THOMAS COLE HISTORIC SITE: $6k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON: $50k → 14%COLUMBIA GREENE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%THOMAS COLE HISTORIC SITE: $6k → 11%COLUMBIA GREENE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%THOMAS COLE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE: $5k → 11%COLUMBIA GREENE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%THOMAS COLE HISTORIC SITE: $5k → 11%COLUMBIA GREENE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%FRIENDS OF BEATTIE POWERS: $1k → 11%OLANA PARTNERSHIP: $1k → 11%THOMAS COLE HISTORIC SITE: $1k → 11%HUDSON OPERA HOUSE: $500 → 11%GREENE COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS: $750 → 11%GREENE COUNT COUNCIL ON THE ARTS: $250 → 11%CREATE: $250 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$542k · 8 repeat orgs$116k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
12

Total granted

$542k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+101%

Still filing today

63%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UO
    University of Dayton
    3× · 2017–2024 · $293k · revenue +38%
  • CC
    COLUMBIA-GREENE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $115k · revenue +98%
  • TC
    THOMAS COLE HISTORIC HOUSE
    2× · 2022–2024 · $105k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • O
    OTHER
    one grant, 2020 · $6k
  • CH
    COLUMBIA-GREENE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • CE
    CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH MUSICgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +101%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
2
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
3
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
4
New York Public Radio

To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.

Arts & Culture
5
Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery

The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.

Arts & Culture
6
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art

See schedule ovision: the cooper union for the advancement of science and art is dedicated to peter cooper's radical commitment to diversity and his founding vision that fair access to an inspiring free education and forums for courageous…

Education
7
Ithaca College

Our mission is to educate, engage, and empower through theory, practice, and performance.

Education
8
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
9
The Trustees of Grinnell College

To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…

Education
10
Barnard College

Barnard college aims to provide the highest quality liberal arts education to promising and high-achieving young women, offering the unparalleled advantages of an outstanding residential college in partnership with a major research…

Education
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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12
Marymount Manhattan College

Marymount manhattan college is an urban, independent, liberal arts college (see schedule o).

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hudson Opera House Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ps 21 Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Dayton: $293,310 · EducationUniversity of DaytonCOLUMBIA-GREENE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $115,000 · EducationCOLUMBIA-GREENE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC+1 more: $500 · EducationVASSAR COLLEGE: $100,000 · OtherVASSAR COLLEGETHOMAS COLE HISTORIC SITE: $17,500 · OtherTHOMAS COLE HISTORIC SI…OTHER: $6,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,750 · Other+5 more: $6,850 · OtherTHOMAS COLE HISTORIC HOUSE: $105,000 · Arts & CultureTHOMAS COLE HISTOR…+5 more: $4,750 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBIA-GREENE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,250 · HealthCREATE INC: $250 · HealthTHE OLANA PARTNERSHIP: $1,000 · Community Improvement
Education$408,810Other$136,100Arts & Culture$109,750Health$2,500Community Improvement$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Dayton: $293,310 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA-GREENE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $115,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetTHOMAS COLE HISTORIC HOUSE: $105,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWMHT EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA-GREENE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH MUSIC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGREENE COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF BEATTIE-POWERS PLACE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHE OLANA PARTNERSHIP: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUDSON OPERA HOUSE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCREATE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPS 21 INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundat…Berkshire Taconic Com…T Backer Fund IncHrbt FoundationBank of Greene County…The Sally S and Rober…The Jm Kaplan Fund IncPrice Chopper's Golub…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region IncNY17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · T Backer Fund Inc · Hrbt Foundation · Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation · The Sally S and Robert K Phelan Legacy Foundation Inc · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The James G and Purcell S Palmer Found funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The James G and Purcell S Palmer Found. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to The James G and Purcell S Palmer Found through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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