Delaware · Private foundation
David & Janet Polak Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $2.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 82
- Grants FY2024
- 65
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 49 to 65
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 16
- Total assets, FY2024
- $70M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations David & Janet Polak Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 70 | $2.0M | 16% |
| FY2023 | 65 | $2.2M | 14% |
| FY2022 | 61 | $2.3M | 8% |
| FY2021 | 61 | $1.8M | 30% |
| FY2020 | 49 | $1.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Americans for Ben-Gurion University Inc | $1,631,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Israel Emergency Alliance | $1,000,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | $640,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Jewish Institute for National Security of America | $544,820 | 5 | 3% |
| Friends of Elnet | $530,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $373,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc | $351,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Tribe Media Corp | $315,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Prager University Foundation | $305,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Moishe House | $265,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 87 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($371k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget David & Janet Polak 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: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Milstein Family Foundation · Hochberg Family Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · California Community Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Snider Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Sandra & Lawrence Post Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
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About David & Janet Polak Foundation
- How much does David & Janet Polak Foundation give?
- David & Janet Polak Foundation reported 82 grants totaling $2,334,600 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 49 and 65 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does David & Janet Polak Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (28%), Education (21%), Science & Tech (11%).
- Who are David & Janet Polak Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Americans for Ben-Gurion University Inc ($1.6M), Israel Emergency Alliance ($1.0M), Cedars-Sinai Medical Center ($641k).
- Does David & Janet Polak Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does David & Janet Polak 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 David & Janet Polak Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, The Milstein Family Foundation, Hochberg Family Foundation.
- Where is David & Janet Polak Foundation based?
- David & Janet Polak Foundation is based in DE.
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