· Private foundation
Gilbert & J Dorothy Palay Family Foundation Ltd
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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON | $43,000 |
| JEWISH UNITED FUND | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN HILLEL FOUNDATION | $17,200 |
| UW FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NICOLET HIGH SCHOOL (JAMES LUBOTSKY MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND) | $10,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LOMBARDI COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER (BELLRINGER) | $10,000 |
| THE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS | $10,000 |
| NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC | $5,000 |
| HARVARD HILLEL (HILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC) | $4,000 |
| BROOKLYN HEIGHTS SYNAGOGUE | $3,600 |
| CONNECTICUT BRAIN TUMOR ALLIANCE INC | $3,500 |
| LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| BETH ISRAEL CENTER | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN BRAIN TUMOR ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| L'CHAIM CENTER FOR INSPIRED LIVING INC | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 48% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
18 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 5 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO6× · 2020–2025 · $140k · revenue +13%
- TCTHE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS5× · 2021–2025 · $30k · revenue +49%
- MAMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC4× · 2020–2024 · $20k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- TSTEMPLE SHALOMone grant, 2020 · $10k
- MHMICKEY HAMMERMAN LEGACY FUND INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -80%
- WUWISCONSIN UROLOGIC RESEARCH INSTITUE (UW FOUNDATION)one grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
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.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Support of miami university
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Art Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is L Chaim Center for Inspired Living Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 51 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
25 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. 25 of the 42 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds THE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MICKEY HAMMERMAN LEGACY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
- Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds American Brain Tumor Association ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT BRAIN TUMOR ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds L CHAIM CENTER FOR INSPIRED LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS FRIENDS OF PHILHARMONIC ↗
- Who funds AURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH BURIAL ASSOCIATION OF MADISON 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: Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Baird Foundation Inc · Karmin Family Charitable Trust · Green Bay Packers Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Gilbert & J Dorothy Palay Family Foundation Ltd 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
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.