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Three Palms Foundation Inc

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$415k
Granted FY2026still arriving
7
Grants FY2026still arriving
4
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Religion$765kRecreation & Sports$370kHousing & Shelter$258kCrime & Legal$245kHealth$185kCivil Rights$120kEducation$100kInternational$33kOther$0
02FY2026 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $385k
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$197k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Covenant Church of Naples$125,000
Rend Lake College Foundation$100,000
First Baptist Church of BR$60,000
Maxwell Leadership Foundation$50,000
Pregnancy Resource Center$50,000
North Suburban Church$25,000
Camp Luck$5,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY21–23, $275k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Erics House: $10k → 11%Guiding Eyes for the Blind: $5k → 9%Better Together: $200k → 10%Misty Meadows Mitey Riders: $15k → 7%Better Together: $38k → 10%Misty Meadows Mitey Riders: $2k → 7%Better Together: $5k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
CA
AZ
NC
TX
FL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 16 repeat orgs$198k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2026, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
16

Total granted

$2.4M
$148k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
0%

Still filing today

56%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25’26
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsReligionHealthEnvironmentCivil RightsOther
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

  • BI
    BIGLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $465k · revenue +61%
  • CP
    CHICAGOLAND PRISON OUTREACH
    6× · 2021–2026 · $245k · revenue +19%
  • PR
    PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER INC
    6× · 2021–2026 · $184k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • KC
    Kypseli Church
    one grant, 2023 · $65k
  • EI
    ERICSHOUSE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -12%
  • TN
    The No Greater Love Fd
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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
Cumberland Medical Center

Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
2
Selah International Counseling Ministries

The mission of Selah International Counseling Ministries is to glorify God as we serve and equip His church, providing leadership and service through counseling, counseling resources, and counseling training.

Health
3
Claiborne Medical Center

Claiborne Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
4
Peacemaker Ministries

To equip and assist christians and their churches to respond to conflict biblically.

International
5
Hopehealth

Our purpose is to offer our skills and hearts to help patients and families live each day with hope and dignity.

Human Services
6
Roane County Medical Center

Roane County Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
7
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
8
Praying Pelican Missions

PPM exists to build up encourage and assist the local Church in reaching and serving their communities for Christ. Primary activities include planning and leading international and domestic mission trips in accordance with this mission as…

Religion
9
Lovelace Biomedical & Environmental Research Institute Inc

Lberi's mission is to serve humanity through research on the prevention, treatment, and cure of respiratory disease and support the research and efforts of lbri.

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10
Lifewater Inc

Lifewater international is a non-profit christian water development organization dedicated to effectively serving vulnerable children and families by partnering with underserved communities to overcome water poverty.

Environment
11
Health Opportunities for the People of East Texas

The organization's mission is to give hope to those who seek a better health. HOPE seeks to carry on Christ's healing mission through caring for the body, mind, and soul of the financially and/or spiritually poor - the sick, the lonely,…

Health
12
Presbyterian Camp and Conference Ministries of Southwest Floridainc

Organization is a ministry of Christs Church associated with the Presbyterian Church USA to provide retreats conferences and camp experiences that guide people to - and nurture them in - a transforming relationship with Jesus Christ and an…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Camp Luck Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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

22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 34 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
11/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COVENANT CHURCH OF NAPLES: $437,300 · OtherCOVENANT CHURCH OF NAPLESNorth Suburban Church: $150,000 · OtherNorth Suburban ChurchFirst Baptist Blowing Rock NC: $125,000 · OtherFirst Baptist Blowing Rock NCMission Dignity: $120,000 · OtherMission DignityFirst Baptist Church of BR: $85,000 · OtherFirst Baptist Church of BRKypseli Church: $65,000 · OtherKypseli Church+15 more: $109,500 · Other+15 moreBIGLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC: $465,000 · Recreation & SportsBIGLIFE INTERNATIONAL …CAMP LUCK INC: $32,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP LUCK INC+1 more: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsCHICAGOLAND PRISON OUTREACH: $245,000 · ReligionCHICAGOLAND …SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $28,160 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S …+1 more: $5,250 · ReligionBETTER TOGETHER: $242,500 · Human ServicesBETTER TOGET…MISTY MEADOWS MITEY RIDERS INC: $17,000 · Human ServicesMISTY MEADOW…ERICSHOUSE INC: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesREND LAKE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $200,000 · EducationPREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $183,500 · Civil RightsMaxwell Leadership Foundation Inc: $50,000 · International
Other$1,091,800Recreation & Sports$502,000Religion$278,410Human Services$274,500Education$200,000Civil Rights$183,500International$50,000

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 budgetBIGLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC: $465,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCHICAGOLAND PRISON OUTREACH: $245,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetREND LAKE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetPREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $183,500 over 6y, 11% of budgetCAMP LUCK INC: $32,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $28,160 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISTY MEADOWS MITEY RIDERS INC: $17,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetPURPLE HEART HOMES INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetERICSHOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetGO LIVE SERVE INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,250 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCamp Grier: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCASTING BREAD MINISTRIES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSouthern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASHE COUNTY ADVANTAGE PROJECT: $5,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetFOOTHILLS CONSERVANCY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetProject 2 Heal: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $2,000 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.

Foundation for the Ca…Duke Energy FoundationSynchrony FoundationRenaissance Charitabl…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…Paypal Charitable Giv…
Foundation for the CarolinasNC16.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · Synchrony Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

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 Three Palms Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Three Palms Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Three Palms Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Three Palms Foundation Inc 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 34 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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