· 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| KQED | $180 |
| P T LIBRARY | $180 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of your 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 +53% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you 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
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
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH4× · 2018–2024 · $33k · revenue +313%- 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%
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Jewish Camp Inc and the most unlike its peers is Atherton Police Officers Assn. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 40 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 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 The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- 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 JEWISH STUDY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Atherton Police Officers Assn ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KQED 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: 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
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 Palm Tree 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.