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PALMER FOUNDATION INC

PALMER FOUNDATION INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being ROBERT W & GLADYS S MESERVE CHAR TRUST HEMENWAY & BARNES LLP ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
—
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$1k
Net assets
$0
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Palmer Foundation Inc does

Mission

Advocate for at-risk communities, providing leadership education and training, and promoting anti-racism

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Advocate for at-risk communities providing leadership education and tr aining and promoting anti-racism

    $102,145 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $102,145.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20232023 Expenses 100 ($50k)2024 Expenses 18 ($9k)
20232024
Expenses (18)

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars.

$0
$0
20232024
Total assets

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

−$5k
’23
−$9k
’24

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Walter D Palmer

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of PALMER FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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.

Where its funders are

PALMER FOUNDATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 1 state in all.

MA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like PALMER FOUNDATION INC

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 Pennsylvania

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds PALMER FOUNDATION INC?
PALMER FOUNDATION INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being ROBERT W & GLADYS S MESERVE CHAR TRUST HEMENWAY & BARNES LLP ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PALMER FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,000 in grants to PALMER FOUNDATION INC.
Who is the largest funder of PALMER FOUNDATION INC?
ROBERT W & GLADYS S MESERVE CHAR TRUST HEMENWAY & BARNES LLP is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PALMER FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2023), and the filings of 1 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