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Gilbert & J Dorothy Palay Family Foundation Ltd at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$43k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $120k
$3,600
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON$43,000
JEWISH UNITED FUND$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN HILLEL FOUNDATION$17,200
NICOLET HIGH SCHOOL (JAMES LUBOTSKY MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND)$10,000
UW FOUNDATION$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
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$1,000
EMORY UNIVERSITY$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 48% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%HARVARD HILLEL (HILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC): $4k → 8%BROOKLYN HEIGHTS SYNAGOGUE: $4k → 20%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LOMBARDI COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER (BELLRINGER): $10k → 14%NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $5k → 11%THE MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $60k → 17%AM SHALOM: $11k → 14%THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION: $5k → 19%HARVARD HILLEL (HILLEL FOUNDATION OF CAMBRIDGE INC): $4k → 8%THE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS: $10k → 14%THE MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $30k → 17%THE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS: $5k → 14%WISCONSIN UROLOGIC RESEARCH INSTITUE (UW FOUNDATION): $10k → 10%THE MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $30k → 17%MICKEY HAMMERMAN LEGACY FUND INC: $10k → 14%THE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS: $5k → 14%UW FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%THE MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $30k → 17%THE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS: $5k → 14%UW FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM: $5k → 17%PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE: $4k → 17%THE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS: $5k → 14%MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM: $5k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN HILLEL FOUNDATION: $110k → 10%MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM: $5k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN HILLEL FOUNDATION: $17k → 10%MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM: $5k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN HILLEL FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%NICOLET HIGH SCHOOL (JAMES LUBOTSKY MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND): $10k → 17%TEMPLE SHALOM: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN HILLEL FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%TEMPLE SHOLOM OF CHICAGO: $7k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN HILLEL FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%TEMPLE SHOLOM OF CHICAGO: $7k → 14%MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $8k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN HILLEL FOUNDATION: $8k → 10%JEWISH UNITED FUND: $40k → 14%JEWISH UNITED FUND: $20k → 14%JEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON: $43k → 10%JEWISH UNITED FUND: $20k → 14%JEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON: $43k → 10%JEWISH UNITED FUND: $20k → 14%JEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON: $43k → 10%JEWISH UNITED FUND: $20k → 14%JEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON: $40k → 10%JEWISH UNITED FUND: $20k → 14%JEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON: $38k → 10%JEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON: $38k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
DC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$470k · 18 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
15

Total granted

$470k
$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+57%

Still filing today

56%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthMembership BenefitPublic BenefitOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • JU
    JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
    6× · 2020–2025 · $140k · revenue +13%
  • TC
    THE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS
    5× · 2021–2025 · $30k · revenue +49%
  • MA
    MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $20k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • TS
    TEMPLE SHALOM
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • MH
    MICKEY HAMMERMAN LEGACY FUND INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -80%
  • WU
    WISCONSIN UROLOGIC RESEARCH INSTITUE (UW FOUNDATION)
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
2
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
3
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
4
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
5
University of New Haven

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…

Education
6
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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.

Education
7
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
8
Furman University

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.

Education
9
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

—
10
Miami University Foundation

Support of miami university

Education
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
12
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Art Museum Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
18/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $150,000 · PhilanthropyMILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INCJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $140,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLI…+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN HILLEL FOUNDATION: $169,700 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN HILLEL…TEMPLE SHOLOM OF CHICAGO: $15,000 · OtherAM SHALOM: $12,650 · OtherBETH ISRAEL CENTER: $10,500 · OtherTEMPLE SHALOM: $10,010 · OtherNICOLET HIGH SCHOOL (JAMES LUBOTSKY MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND): $10,000 · OtherWISCONSIN UROLOGIC RESEARCH INSTITUE (UW FOUNDATION): $10,000 · Other+16 more: $44,100 · Other+16 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON INC: $243,000 · ReligionJEWISH FEDERATION OF MADIS…+1 more: $3,000 · ReligionPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $84,000 · EducationPresident and F…UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF W…MICKEY HAMMERMAN LEGACY FUND INC: $10,000 · EducationMICKEY HAMMERMA…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIV…Emory University: $5,000 · EducationUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $4,000 · EducationMILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureMADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $7,250 · Arts & CulturePALM SPRINGS FRIENDS OF PHILHARMONIC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureTHE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS: $30,000 · Public BenefitLYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $8,500 · HealthCONNECTICUT BRAIN TUMOR ALLIANCE INC: $3,500 · Health
Philanthropy$291,000Other$281,960Religion$246,000Education$138,000Arts & Culture$37,250Public Benefit$30,000Health$12,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF MADISON INC: $243,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $150,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $140,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $84,000 over 5y, 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 budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $4,000 over 4y, 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 budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM SPRINGS AND DESERT AREA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

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 Charit…Jewish Federation of …Baird Foundation IncKarmin Family Charita…Green Bay Packers Fou…The Ayco Charitable F…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Jewish Communal FundVanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gilbert & J Dorothy Palay Family Foundation Ltd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gilbert & J Dorothy Palay Family Foundation Ltd. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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