Iowa · Nonprofit
PALMER COLLEGE FOUNDATION
PALMER COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,473,956 to it, the largest being Marie H Bechtel Charitable Trust ($1,335,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $107M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $285M
What Palmer College Foundation does
Mission
Promote learning, deliver health care, engage our communities and advance knowledge through research.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Palmer college educates students with a doctor of chiropractic degree. Students are provided classroom and lab instruction to learn the science, art and philosophy of chiropractic. Enrollment for the spring 2025 term was 1,943 students.
$38,089,413 spentof which $3,579,844 as grants$79,467,899 earned by the program67% of program spendingPalmer college operates chiropractic clinics to extend the student education from the classroom to direct patient care. The doctor of chiropractic degree is a 10 trimester program of which the final 1/3 is spent in the clinic setting working with patients. Student tuition reported above is used to offset the cost of clinic operations.
$9,542,236 spent$1,385,643 earned by the program17% of program spendingPalmer center for chiropractic research is dedicated to impacting patient care and policy through research, analysis and intelligence. Pccr takes a comprehensive approach to research focusing on basic and clinical sciences in addition to health services work. Grant income received during the year was just over $1,100,000.
$2,703,697 spent5% of program spendingAuxiliary enterprises and activities related to operation of bookstore, cafeteria, print shop, student housing, and continuing education programs.
$6,596,327 spent$500,662 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $56,931,673.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $257M to $298M (+16%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 3% · 2020 3% · 2021 4% · 2022 10% · 2023 3% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of PALMER COLLEGE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Dennis Marchiori Dc Phd
President/CEO
Board chair
Trevor V Ireland Dc
Trustee/chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $49k → $136k.
7 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of PALMER COLLEGE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 28 of 29 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
PALMER COLLEGE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 39% · 2019 79% · 2020 85% · 2021 46% · 2022 44% · 2023 18% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
46% of PALMER COLLEGE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
82% of PALMER COLLEGE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $551k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
PALMER COLLEGE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 679 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 679 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding PALMER COLLEGE FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $13.9M on record — $13.9M federal, $13k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$9.9M
- Department of Education$4.0M
- NJ$8k
- FL$4k
- DE$1k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like PALMER COLLEGE FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
49%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 8 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Palmer College of Chiropractic West · exempt
- Dr David D Palmer Athletic Trust · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PALMER COLLEGE FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PALMER COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
- PALMER COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Iowa) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,473,956 to it, the largest being Marie H Bechtel Charitable Trust ($1,335,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PALMER COLLEGE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $3,473,956 in grants to PALMER COLLEGE FOUNDATION, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PALMER COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
- Marie H Bechtel Charitable Trust is the largest funder on record, with $1,335,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PALMER COLLEGE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 29 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing