· Private foundation
The Palm Tree Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $220k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PERSIMMON FOUNDATION JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $220,000 |
| SILICON VALLEY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL | $12,500 |
| CONGREGATION KOL EMETH | $5,954 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,470 |
| GIVEBUTTER SHALEM SCHOOL | $5,400 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | $4,000 |
| THEATER YOU | $3,600 |
| OSHMAN FAMILY JCC | $3,600 |
| REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| WOMEN'S AUDIO MISSION | $1,800 |
| ATHERTON POLICE OFFICER'S ASSOC | $500 |
| HOOVER INSTITUTION | $360 |
| FRIENDS OF ATHERTON LIBRARY | $300 |
| P T LIBRARY | $180 |
| KQED | $180 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of its 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 +31% since the first grant, against -9% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 8 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH4× · 2018–2024 · $33k · revenue +479%- SVSILICON VALLEY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL2× · 2023–2025 · $16k · revenue +31%
- OFOSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER4× · 2018–2025 · $13k · revenue +6%
Funded once
Northwestern Universitygraduatedone grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue +33%- PIPARKINSON'S INSTITUTE AND CLINICAL CENTERone grant, 2018 · $20k
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Incone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -9%
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.
The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 40 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 Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds SILICON VALLEY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra ↗
- Who funds Womens Audio Mission ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT FOR STEM CELL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds Atherton Police Officers Assn ↗
- Who funds JEWISH STUDY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KQED 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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Intuit Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Palm Tree Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Palm Tree Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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