California · Private foundation
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 FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 71%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 14
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 71% of the organizations Palayam Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $84k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $106k | 71% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $95k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $97k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $115k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $170k | 86% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $105k | 88% |
| FY2017 | 6 | $58k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| NAMI National | $150,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Initiative for Medicines Access & Knowledge (I-Mak) Inc | $80,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Globalgiving Foundation Inc | $75,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Hindus for Human Rights | $54,936 | 6 | 4% |
| Donorschooseorg | $20,983 | 1 | 0% |
| Hidden Genius Project | $17,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc | $12,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Action Against Hunger - USA | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Leela Institute | $10,000 | 1 | 6% |
| The Miles Hall Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 7% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($279k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Palayam Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Palayam Foundation
- How much does Palayam Foundation give?
- Palayam Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $108,728 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Palayam Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (42%), International (16%), Education (15%).
- Who are Palayam Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: NAMI National ($150k), Initiative for Medicines Access & Knowledge (I-Mak) Inc ($80k), Globalgiving Foundation Inc ($75k).
- Does Palayam Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Palayam Foundation 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 Palayam Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
- Where is Palayam Foundation based?
- Palayam Foundation is based in CA.
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