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Palmer Family 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $39k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| QUAD CITIES GOLF CLASSIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $29,000 |
| ST LUKE'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PUTNAM MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER | $9,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC | $6,000 |
| YMCA OF THE IOWA MISSISSIPPI VALLEY | $5,000 |
| TRINITY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| KINGS HARVEST PET RESCUE | $2,000 |
| GILDA'S CLUB QUAD CITIES | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Palmer Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- QCQUAD CITIES GOLF CLASSIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $110k · revenue +27%
- SAST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY3× · 2022–2024 · $40k · revenue +83%
- THTRINITY HEALTH FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $20k · revenue +318%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PLATTEVILLE ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +92%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE HEARTLAND INCone grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue -16%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEYone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +1%
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.
Our mission is to strengthen the university of iowa through alumni engagement. we do this through our communications, alumni programs, and events.
Our mission is to inspire the iowa city area to be greater by: 1) elevating business, 2) investing in strategic initiatives, and 3) advocating for the economic resiliency of the greater community.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
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…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…
The union works to advocate and advance a public policy agenda to support and protect the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of iowa. it works to maintain throughout the united states the rights of free…
Uniting and strengthening the voice for public health in iowa.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
The university of iowa center for advancement's mission is to advance the university of iowa through engagement and philanthropy. we serve our alumni and friends in the state and the region, throughout the country, and around the world. we…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The mission of trinity medical center is to improve the health of the people and communities we serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cancer Support Community Iowa & Nw Illinois and the most unlike its peers is Empower House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 20 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 QUAD CITIES GOLF CLASSIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST AMBROSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRINITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PUTNAM MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds LIVING LANDS & WATERS ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAND IN HAND ↗
- Who funds ILLOWA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PALMER COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PLATTEVILLE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE HEARTLAND INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE IOWA MISSISSIPPI VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Empower House ↗
- Who funds QUAD CITY ELECTRICAL JOINT APPRENTICESHIP & TRAINING PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY IOWA & NW ILLINOIS ↗
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: Scott County Regional Authority · Modern Woodmen of America · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · Quad Cities Community Foundation · Charles R and Nancy L Von Maur Charitable Foundation · Harold R Bechtel Charitable Trust · Ih Mississippi Valley Credit Union · Marie H Bechtel Charitable Trust · Roy J Carver Charitable Trust · Greenstate Foundation · Moline Foundation · Doris & Victor Day 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 Palmer Family 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.