· Private foundation
Gialamas Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $173k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASU FOUNDATION - ATHLETICS | $50,000 |
| UW FOUNDATION INNOVATION FUND | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $30,000 |
| MADISON OPERA | $25,000 |
| HOLLIS SCHOOL DISTRICT | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| EDGEWOOD CAMPUS SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| EDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL | $18,400 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES | $10,000 |
| UNDERDOG PET RESCUE WI INC | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL HELLENIC SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| ASSUMPTION GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH - MADISON WI | $10,000 |
| FIRST GERMAN LUTHERAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 91% of your 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2026, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k 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
MADISON COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC3× · 2019–2021 · $150k · revenue +100%- MOMADISON OPERA INC5× · 2020–2026 · $70k · revenue +36%
- ECEDGEWOOD CAMPUS SCHOOL INC4× · 2023–2026 · $65k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- UCUW CARBONE CANCER INNOVATION FUNDone grant, 2025 · $50k
- MUMarquette Universitygraduatedone grant, 2019 · $24k · revenue +46%
- OCONE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2025 · $10k · revenue 0%
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.
Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
University school of milwaukee cultivates excellence in learning, leadership, and citizenship for prekindergarten through 12th grade students. students are engaged, known, and valued within our passionate independent school community…
The milwaukee institute of art and design's mission is to ignite curious minds through art, design and service. we value courage to seek our own path, integrity to pursue our lives and work with meaning, kindness to thoughtfully engage…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Strengthen communities by providing high-quality and innovative artistic experiences that entertain, inspire, and unite diverse audiences.
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
Fisk university produces graduates from diverse backgrounds with the integrity and intellect required for substantive contributions to society. our curriculum is grounded in the liberal arts. our faculty and administrators emphasize the…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Madison Country Day School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pax Americana 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.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 33 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 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MADISON COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds EDGEWOOD CAMPUS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL HELLENIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds ONE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAGUARO SABERCAT FOOTBALL FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds MADISON AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
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: Madison Community Foundation · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Steinhauer Charitable Foundation · John J Frautschi Family Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Terry Family Foundation Inc · Irving & Dorothy Levy Family Foundation · Lau & Bea Christensen Charitable Foundat · Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation
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 Gialamas 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.