Washington, D.C. · Private foundation
Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family 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.
- $4.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 78
- Grants FY2025
- 67
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $325,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 60 to 80
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $142M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k 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 | 69 | $3.8M | 9% |
| FY2024 | 67 | $4.6M | 10% |
| FY2023 | 77 | $4.7M | 10% |
| FY2022 | 77 | $4.8M | 26% |
| FY2021 | 80 | $2.7M | 33% |
| FY2020 | 70 | $2.9M | 34% |
| FY2019 | 60 | $1.9M | 13% |
| FY2018 | 69 | $2.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Harold Grinspoon Foundation | $1,900,000 | 8 | 1% |
| The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | $1,617,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Moishe House | $1,127,500 | 8 | 2% |
| Children's Hospital Foundation | $960,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $951,903 | 6 | 0% |
| Jewish Funders Network | $850,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Building Bridges Across the River Inc | $672,675 | 7 | 2% |
| Icivics Inc | $665,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Sixth & I Synagogue Inc | $620,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life | $616,875 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 139 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family 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: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · England Family Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundation · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Galena-Yorktown Foundation · The Robert P and Arlene R Kogod Family Foundation · The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation with peer funders
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About Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation
- How much does Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation give?
- Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation reported 78 grants totaling $4,286,118 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 60 and 80 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (21%), Arts & Culture (15%), Religion (13%).
- Who are Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The Harold Grinspoon Foundation ($1.9M), The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ($1.6M), Moishe House ($1.1M).
- Does Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family 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 Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, England Family Foundation.
- Where is Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation based?
- Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation is based in DC.
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