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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 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, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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. Its 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
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

MT
NY
MA
WY
NJ
CA
VA
DE
NM
DC
GA
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +149% since the first grant, against +37% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa; 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.
04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 45 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
20/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetTHE LEELA INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetTHE MILES HALL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetTilting Futures Incorporated: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGROUNDWORK USA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CRUCIBLE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFarm To Crag: $7,500 over 1y, 10% of budgetFOR THE PEOPLE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMONUMENT CRISIS CENTER: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE ON AGING: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFfec USA: $5,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATION (USA): $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHRUTHI SWARA LAYA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSAN RAMON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2,703 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSTAFFORD ANIMAL SHELTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWESTERN SUSTAINABILITY EXCHANGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFolsom American Little League Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

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

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 Palayam Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Palayam Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
    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 45 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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