Indiana · Private foundation
The Palmer Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $288k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 64
- Grants FY2025
- 59
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 64
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 16
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations The Palmer Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 64 | $288k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 59 | $259k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 62 | $256k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 64 | $260k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 60 | $201k | 68% |
| FY2020 | 41 | $158k | 39% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $171k | 52% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $150k | 63% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Empart USA | $118,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Southern Stairs | $110,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Heart Change Ministries Inc | $96,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Edify | $52,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Youth With a Mission | $45,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Hope International | $41,700 | 7 | 0% |
| Young Life | $41,205 | 5 | 0% |
| Shepherd Community Inc | $39,250 | 7 | 0% |
| Washington Township Schools Foundation Inc | $36,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Community Caring and Sharing | $32,800 | 6 | 12% |
Show all 118 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 55 recipients with no EIN on record ($569k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Palmer Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Hoover Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Palmer Family Foundation
- How much does The Palmer Family Foundation give?
- The Palmer Family Foundation reported 64 grants totaling $287,650 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 64 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Palmer Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (24%), International (18%), Education (11%).
- Who are The Palmer Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Empart USA ($118k), Southern Stairs ($110k), Heart Change Ministries Inc ($96k).
- Does The Palmer Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Palmer Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Palmer Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Indianapolis Foundation Inc, Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc, Lilly Endowment Inc.
- Where is The Palmer Family Foundation based?
- The Palmer Family Foundation is based in IN.
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