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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.

$147k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2025
18
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,600
Largest grant, FY2025
$43,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 18
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$1.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Gilbert & J Dorothy Palay Family Foundation Ltd funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
EducationPublic BenefitArts & CultureRecreation & SportsReligionYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving17$103k24%
FY202418$183k33%
FY202317$77k41%
FY202210$73k0%
FY202112$60k67%
FY202012$59kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$534kReligion$241kScience & Tech$84kEducation$57kHealth$42kArts & Culture$37kPublic Benefit$30kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
DC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago$140,00060%
The Council on Strategic Risks$30,00050%
University of Wisconsin Foundation$20,00020%
Milwaukee Art Museum Inc$20,00040%
Temple Sholom of Chicago$15,0003n/a
Am Shalom$12,6502n/a
Beth Israel Center$10,5006n/a
Mickey Hammerman Legacy Fund Inc$10,00014%
Georgetown University$10,00010%
Lymphoma Research Foundation$8,50050%
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All grantees of Gilbert & J Dorothy Palay Family Foundation Ltd by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago$140,00060%
The Council on Strategic Risks$30,00050%
University of Wisconsin Foundation$20,00020%
Milwaukee Art Museum Inc$20,00040%
Temple Sholom of Chicago$15,0003n/a
Am Shalom$12,6502n/a
Beth Israel Center$10,5006n/a
Mickey Hammerman Legacy Fund Inc$10,00014%
Georgetown University$10,00010%
Lymphoma Research Foundation$8,50050%
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Inc$7,50010%
Norton Museum of Art Inc$7,25020%
Park Avenue Synagogue Inc$5,0002n/a
Emory University$5,00050%
University of Illinois Foundation$5,00010%
American Brain Tumor Association$5,00050%
Northwestern University$5,00050%
Brooklyn Heights Synagogue$3,6001n/a
Connecticut Brain Tumor Alliance Inc$3,50011%
Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Dane County Inc$3,00020%
L Chaim Center for Inspired Living Inc$3,0003n/a
Palm Springs Friends of Philharmonic$2,50010%
Aurora Health Care Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Jewish Burial Association of Madison Inc$1,00010%
Neighborhood House Community Center Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($219k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gilbert & J Dorothy Palay Family Foundation Ltd supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago: $140,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Council on Strategic Risks: $30,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Wisconsin Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMilwaukee Art Museum Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMickey Hammerman Legacy Fund Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetGeorgetown University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLymphoma Research Foundation: $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMadison Museum of Contemporary Art Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNorton Museum of Art Inc: $7,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Brain Tumor Association: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetConnecticut Brain Tumor Alliance Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBig Brothers and Big Sisters of Dane County Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPalm Springs Friends of Philharmonic: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAurora Health Care Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Burial Association of Madison Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNeighborhood House Community Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Herbert H Kohl Charities IncWI15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Gilbert & J Dorothy Palay Family Foundation Ltd

How much does Gilbert & J Dorothy Palay Family Foundation Ltd give?
Gilbert & J Dorothy Palay Family Foundation Ltd reported 19 grants totaling $146,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Gilbert & J Dorothy Palay Family Foundation Ltd fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (52%), Religion (23%), Science & Tech (8%).
Who are Gilbert & J Dorothy Palay Family Foundation Ltd's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($140k), The Council on Strategic Risks ($30k), University of Wisconsin Foundation ($20k).
Does Gilbert & J Dorothy Palay Family Foundation Ltd fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Gilbert & J Dorothy Palay Family Foundation Ltd accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Gilbert & J Dorothy Palay Family Foundation Ltd?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Baird Foundation Inc.
Where is Gilbert & J Dorothy Palay Family Foundation Ltd based?
Gilbert & J Dorothy Palay Family Foundation Ltd is based in WI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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