· Private foundation
Bernard & Naomi L Podolsky Charitable Trust
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $73k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| WSIU-FM NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ST LOUIS REGION | $20,000 |
| POSHARD FOUNDATION FOR ABUSED CHILDREN | $17,500 |
| JOHN R & ELEANOR R MITCHELL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS | $7,500 |
| JESUS NAME PENTECOSTAL CHURCH | $7,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 34% of Bernard & Naomi L Podolsky Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 82% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 51%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FCFAIRFIELD COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATI4× · 2022–2025 · $252k · revenue +46% · 73% of their budget
- JRJOHN R AND ELEANOR R MITCHELL FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $95k · revenue +5%
- PFPOSHARD FOUNDATION FOR ABUSED CHILDREN INC5× · 2021–2025 · $89k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- NENATIONAL EAGLE SCOUT ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $500
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.
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.
To provide funding and support services in relation to the research and development of historical information regarding the state of illinois history.
Openlands protects the natural and open spaces of northeastern illinois and the surrounding region to ensure cleaner air and water, protect natural habitats and wildlife, and help balance and enrich our lives.
To secure and manage private support to benefit northern illinois university.
To inspire conservation leadership by connecting people with wildlife and nature.
The illinois junior academy of science exists for the benefit of students in the state of illinois. the process students follow for the ijas gives these students some insight into the problems and methods of thinking that are particular to…
The fund supports strong public schools citywide by investing heavily in the talented educators who lead them. in 2024, our programs and partnerships supported 151 school leaders (principals), 193 aspiring principals (assistant principals,…
To prepare students for lives of significance and service through liberal arts & theological studies.
To elevate illinois state university through the power of philanthropy.
How this is measured
7 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. 7 of the 11 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATI ↗
- Who funds JOHN R AND ELEANOR R MITCHELL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POSHARD FOUNDATION FOR ABUSED CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds WABASH AREA DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bernard & Naomi L Podolsky Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bernard & Naomi L Podolsky Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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