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Palayam Foundation

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.

$109k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$356kInternational$133kEducation$129kCivil Rights$55kPublic Safety & Disaster$40kEnvironment$33kYouth Development$28kPhilanthropy$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $101k
$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS$25,000
EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$25,000
DONORSCHOOSE$20,983
GLOBAL GIVING$20,000
HINDUS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS$10,000
ALAMO EDUCATION FUND$5,245
BIG EAST AKITA RESCUE$2,500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%INSTITUTE ON AGING: $5k → 10%MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER: $5k → 9%MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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NY
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CA
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NM
DC
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$586k · 11 repeat orgs$243k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +149% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
30

Total granted

$586k
$215k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+149%
+37%

Still filing today

73%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalFood & NutritionEnvironmentHealthCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • NN
    NAMI National
    6× · 2018–2025 · $150k · revenue +461%
  • GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +34%
  • HF
    HINDUS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +182%

Funded once

  • NA
    NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • JS
    JEEVAN STEM CELL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
  • COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +36%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
2
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
3
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
4
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
5
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
6
The Asia Foundation

The asia foundation (taf) is an international nonprofit organization working to solve the toughest social and economic challenges in asia and the pacific. (continued on schedule o)

International
7
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
8
Farm Forward Inc

To develop and implement strategies to promote more humane, sustainable, community-friendly food choices and advance animal agriculture with special attention to animal protection issues.

Animals
9
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
10
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
11
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
12
Namati Inc

Namati, inc. (namati) is dedicated to putting the law in people's hands. we strive to build a just world, in which every one of us can take part in the decisions and demand accountability from the institutions that affect our lives.…

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa and the most unlike its peers is Farm to Crag. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEducation Equity LeadershipAnimal Rescue and AdoptionFood Pantries & AssistancePublic School District Foun…Land Conservation Organizat…Senior Support ServicesEnvironmental Advocacy Orga…Professional Ballet Compani…South Asian Cultural and Sp…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%10%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr14%14%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr16%4%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/32
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,533

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.

04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 45 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
19/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ALTIUS FOUNDATION — $95,039 · OtherALTIUS FOUNDATIONI-MAK — $47,500 · OtherI-MAKIndividual grant recipient — $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS — $25,000 · OtherNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESSJEEVAN STEM CELL FOUNDATION — $20,000 · OtherJEEVAN STEM CELL FOUNDATION+22 more — $120,745 · Other+22 moreNAMI National — $150,000 · HealthNAMI NationalTHE MILES HALL FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · HealthTHE MILES HALL FOUNDA…HINDUS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS — $54,936 · EducationHINDUS FOR HUM…DONORSCHOOSEORG — $20,983 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEOR…HIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT — $17,500 · EducationHIDDEN GENIUS …THE CRUCIBLE — $7,500 · EducationTHE CRUCIBLEKHAN ACADEMY INC — $5,000 · Education+1 more — $2,703 · EducationGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING F…COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $12,500 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FO…ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA — $10,000 · InternationalACTION AGAINST…Tilting Futures Incorporated — $10,000 · InternationalTilting Future…INITIATIVE FOR MEDICINES ACCESS & KNOWLEDGE (I-MAK) INC — $80,000 · Crime & LegalINITIATIVE …FOR THE PEOPLE — $7,500 · Crime & LegalFOR THE PEO…EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 · PhilanthropyFarm To Crag — $7,500 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO — $5,000 · Food & NutritionAKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA) — $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$348,284Health$160,000Education$108,622International$107,500Crime & Legal$87,500Philanthropy$25,000Food & Nutrition$17,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNAMI National — $150,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetINITIATIVE FOR MEDICINES ACCESS & KNOWLEDGE (I-MAK) INC — $80,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHINDUS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS — $54,936 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetEAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $20,983 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT — $17,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGROUNDWORK USA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTilting Futures Incorporated — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MILES HALL FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetTHE LEELA INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetFarm To Crag — $7,500 over 1y, 10% of budgetFOR THE PEOPLE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CRUCIBLE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMONUMENT CRISIS CENTER — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHRUTHI SWARA LAYA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFfec USA — $5,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetINSTITUTE ON AGING — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA) — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN RAMON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $2,703 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWESTERN SUSTAINABILITY EXCHANGE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTAFFORD ANIMAL SHELTER — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFolsom American Little League Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA11.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Palayam 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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