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The 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.

$800k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$92k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Environment$1.1MHuman Services$1.0MEducation$954kInternational$704kArts & Culture$703kHealth$358kHousing & Shelter$226kAnimals$206kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $452k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $307k
$26,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CROHN'S & COALITIS FOUNDATION$92,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY - MCDONOUGH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS$65,000
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER$50,000
ASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE CAPE COD$50,000
THE NEO FUND$50,000
FOREST PLANET$46,000
LIVING WATER INTERNATIONAL$45,000
HIGHWATER FARM$40,000
WEYMOUTH CENTER$35,000
ALDEA$35,000
KEMPER CENTER$35,000
NORTHERN DOOR CHILDCARE PROJECT INC$32,000
A LEG TO STAND ON INC$30,000
KENOSHA YMCA$26,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $341k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CARITAS INC: $5k → 10%PAWS4PEOPLE INC: $25k → 12%FOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $40k → 12%FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER OF SOUTH SOUND: $13k → 9%THE NEO FUND: $50k → 9%NORTHERN DOOR CHILDCARE PROJECT INC: $32k → 8%THE NEO FUND: $30k → 12%THE NEO FUND: $50k → 9%SUNSHINE HOUSE INC: $30k → 8%THE NEO FUND: $6k → 9%SANTA COPS OF WELD COUNTY: $5k → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FUND OF WASHINGTON STATE: $55k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.3M · 49 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

49 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
67

Total granted

$4.3M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+14%

Still filing today

78%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthOther

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

  • PENINSULA SCHOOL OF ART INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $313k · revenue +96%
  • TM
    THE MIRACLE FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $232k · revenue +103%
  • CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $185k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • WO
    WRITE ON THE DOOR COUNTY
    one grant, 2020 · $75k
  • TO
    TOWN OF GIBRALTAR
    one grant, 2019 · $75k
  • LC
    Latino Community Fund of Washington State
    one grant, 2023 · $55k · revenue -37%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
2
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
3
Boston Architectural College

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

4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

5
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
6
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
7
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

8
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
9
Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy
10
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
11
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
12
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope for Haiti Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sowers of Seeds. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsDomestic Violence ServicesAffordable Housing Construc…Christian Missionary Organi…Environmental Conservation …Policy Research and AdvocacyCommunity Arts CentersCommunity College Foundatio…Food Banks and PantriesCancer Support ServicesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Animal Rescue and ShelterCommunity FoundationsAffordable Housing Developm…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%35%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%23%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/103
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,462

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

99 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 99 of the 128 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
97/99
Grantees still filing
59/99
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $200,000 · OtherSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTERGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY - MCDONOUGH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — $186,000 · OtherGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY - MCDONOUGH SCHOOL OF BUSINESSTHE CROHN'S & COALITIS FOUNDATION — $167,200 · OtherALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES — $150,000 · OtherDOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC — $146,500 · OtherDUKE-FUQUA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — $111,000 · OtherBOULDER CREST RETREAT FOR VETERAN AND MIL — $110,000 · OtherNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $135,000 · Other+63 more — $2,053,900 · Other+63 moreHOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $137,000 · EducationHOFFMAN INST…CARTHAGE COLLEGE — $126,000 · EducationCARTHAGE COL…UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $55,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…WINGATE UNIVERSITY — $53,000 · EducationWINGATE UNIV…ARTISTYEAR — $50,000 · EducationARTISTYEARGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $47,500 · EducationGEORGETOWN U…COALITION FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $30,000 · EducationCARDINAL STRITCH UNIVERSITY INC — $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA DARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EducationYEAR UP INC — $25,000 · EducationALVERNO COLLEGE — $23,850 · Education+7 more — $67,000 · Education+7 moreCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $185,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE …FORESTPLANET INC — $169,500 · EnvironmentFORESTPLANE…ASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE CAPE COD INC — $82,000 · EnvironmentASSOCIATION…ROOT-PIKE WATERSHED INITIATIVE NETWORK INC — $61,000 · EnvironmentROOT-PIKE W…NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL MA…MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $50,000 · EnvironmentMASSACHUSET…URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC — $30,000 · EnvironmentHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC — $162,000 · InternationalHABITAT F…FABRETTO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC — $98,000 · InternationalFABRETTO …FOTOKIDS INC — $69,600 · InternationalFOTOKIDS …HOPE FOR HAITI INC — $50,000 · InternationalHOPE FOR …SELF HELP AFRICA INC — $40,000 · InternationalSELF HELP…Groundswell International Inc — $35,000 · InternationalGroundswe…AFRICAN LIBRARY PROJECT — $32,000 · InternationalAFRICAN L…SEEDS OF PEACE INC — $23,200 · International+1 more — $10,000 · InternationalPENINSULA SCHOOL OF ART INC — $312,500 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF WEYMOUTH INC — $35,000 · Arts & CultureRagdale Foundation — $25,000 · Arts & CultureVillage Heritage Foundation — $25,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $26,500 · Arts & CultureTHE MIRACLE FOUNDATION INC — $231,800 · HealthPartner for Surgery Inc — $160,500 · HealthNational Women's Health Network — $15,000 · Health+3 more — $14,500 · HealthNeo Fund — $136,000 · Human ServicesLatino Community Fund of Washington State — $55,000 · Human ServicesFOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER — $40,000 · Human ServicesNORTHERN DOOR CHILDRENS CENTER INC — $32,000 · Human ServicesSUNSHINE HOUSE INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesPAWS4PEOPLE INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesThe Family Support Center of South Sound — $13,000 · Human Services+2 more — $9,500 · Human Services
Other$3,259,600Education$664,350Environment$627,500International$519,800Arts & Culture$424,000Health$421,800Human Services$340,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPENINSULA SCHOOL OF ART INC — $312,500 over 7y, 14% of budgetTHE MIRACLE FOUNDATION INC — $231,800 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $185,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFORESTPLANET INC — $169,500 over 4y, 57% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC — $162,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPartner for Surgery Inc — $160,500 over 5y, 14% of budgetALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES — $150,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetDOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC — $146,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetHOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $137,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetNeo Fund — $136,000 over 4y, 34% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $135,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCARTHAGE COLLEGE — $126,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKemper Center Inc — $103,000 over 7y, 10% of budgetFABRETTO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC — $98,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE CAPE COD INC — $82,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSANDHILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $77,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFOTOKIDS INC — $69,600 over 2y, 13% of budgetROOT-PIKE WATERSHED INITIATIVE NETWORK INC — $61,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SANDHILLS INC — $60,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetLatino Community Fund of Washington State — $55,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE NC SANDHILLS INC — $55,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWINGATE UNIVERSITY — $53,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetARTISTYEAR — $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetHOPE FOR HAITI INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetA LEG TO STAND ON INC — $50,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetMEDSTAR HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIDWEST ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $47,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetICARE INC — $46,800 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSELF HELP AFRICA INC — $40,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetHighwater Farm — $40,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetFOCUS POINTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER — $40,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF WEYMOUTH INC — $35,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetGroundswell International Inc — $35,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSALISBURY ZOO COMMISSION INC — $35,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetHOPECAM INC — $34,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetAFRICAN LIBRARY PROJECT — $32,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetNORTHERN DOOR CHILDRENS CENTER INC — $32,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCOALITION FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $30,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetURBAN ECOLOGY CENTER INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSUNSHINE HOUSE INC — $30,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INC — $26,250 over 3y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI27.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Door County Community Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Hislop Family Foundation · Ellsworth and Carla Peterson Charitable Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Cedar Street Charitable Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Tiaa Charitable Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Charles & Marcia Larsenanthony & Priscilla Beadell Foundation · Mmg Foundation Inc

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 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 50%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Association to Preserve Cape Cod Inc100% of income from government
  • National Marine Sanctuary Foundation88% of income from government
  • Hacienda Community Development Corporation48% of income from government
  • Medstar Health Research Institute Inc25% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Legal Services Inc3% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc2% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc1% of income from government
  • Bruce Museum Inc0% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc0% of income from government
  • Hope for Haiti Inc0% of income from government
  • Animal Rescue League of Boston0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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How do I get to The Palmer Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Palmer Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 128 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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