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Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
78
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$325k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Philanthropy$6.5MArts & Culture$4.6MReligion$4.0MCivil Rights$3.4MHealth$2.7MPublic Benefit$2.3MInternational$1.8MHuman Services$1.7MOther$0
02FY2025 · 78 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $80k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $549k
  • $50k–250k26 grants · $2.8M
  • $250k+3 grants · $875k
$25,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$142M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC$325,000
HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION$300,000
LEHRHAUS CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AND LEARNING INC$250,000
JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK$200,000
MEM GLOBAL$180,000
THE SHABBAT PROJECT INC$180,000
THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC$180,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$170,000
CHILDRENS LAW CENTER INCORPORATED$150,000
REBOOT INC$150,000
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND$115,000
BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER$112,675
ICIVICS INC$100,000
JEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE INC$100,000
ISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION$100,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEWISH ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE OPTIONS: $3k → 13%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $2k → 8%TRANS CONTINENTAL PIPELINE: $5k → 12%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE AND CHILDRENS CENTER OF CLIFTON-PASSAIC: $5k → 12%JEWISH ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE OPTIONS: $2k → 13%JCC ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $75k → 17%BONEI OLAM: $2k → 20%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $75k → 17%BONEI OLAM: $1k → 20%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE & CHILDREN'S CENTER OF CLIFTON-PASSAIC: $2k → 12%ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $10k → 16%ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $8k → 16%ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $5k → 16%ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $5k → 16%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $15k → 8%ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $3k → 16%ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $3k → 16%BENDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $5k → 8%BENDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $5k → 8%BENDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $5k → 8%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $5k → 8%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $5k → 8%BENDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $5k → 8%BENDER JCC OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $5k → 8%BENDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $3k → 8%MAMATOTO VILLAGE INC: $100k → 14%MAMATOTO VILLAGE INC: $100k → 14%MAMATOTO VILLAGE INC: $80k → 14%MAMATOTO VILLAGE INC: $60k → 14%SHE SHOULD RUN: $3k → 14%MAMATOTO VILLAGE INC: $50k → 14%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $95k → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $95k → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $75k → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $70k → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $50k → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY (JSSA): $50k → 8%JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $17k → 8%DC ACTION FOR CHILDREN TODAY DC ACT: $175k → 14%DC ACTION FOR CHILDREN: $75k → 14%DC ACTION FOR CHILDREN: $65k → 14%WASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%DC ACTION FOR CHILDREN TODAY DC ACT: $540 → 14%WASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $24k → 14%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

ME
WA
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
AL
GA
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.2% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$26M · 124 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

124 repeat relationships: 63 still active in FY2025, 61 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

124
38

Total granted

$26M
$893k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+27%

Still filing today

85%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $473k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsInternationalReligionOther
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

  • TH
    THE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +120%
  • The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +16%
  • MH
    MOISHE HOUSE
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • LO
    LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $203k
  • DW
    DC WHEEL PRODUCTIONS INCDBA DANCE PLACE
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • CP
    CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION FBO BLACK FUTURES LABS
    one grant, 2021 · $87k
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
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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2
Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington

As the central community relations agency of the organized jewish community in our nation's capital, the jcrc of greater washington endeavors to foster a society based on freedom, justice and democratic pluralism for it is such a society…

Community Improvement
3
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
4
National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated

The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.

Community Improvement
5
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
6
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
7
Hillel At the George Washington University Inc

The mission of gw hillel is to provide an open, warm, and pluralistic environment in which students can shape their college experience by connecting socially, culturally, and spiritually to their judaism. hillel aims to foster students'…

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8
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

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9
American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
10
Jewish Electorate Institute

The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…

Civil Rights
11
Avodah the Jewish Service Corps Inc

Avodah develops lifelong social justice leaders whose work is informed by jewish values and who inspire the jewish community to work toward a more just and equitable world.

Community Improvement
12
National Jewish Policy Center

To conduct educational activities and to provide scholarly perspectives on foreign and domestic policies that impact the jewish community in the united states and the broader american public.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Repair the World; the most unlike its peers is Flamboyan Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

141 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. 141 of the 174 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)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
138/141
Grantees still filing
104/141
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION: $1,900,000 · OtherTHE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATIONEDLAVITCH DC JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $858,921 · OtherEDLAVITCH DC JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $578,040 · OtherEDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC: $516,079 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $951,903 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $452,000 · OtherBUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC: $672,675 · OtherBUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INCCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC: $550,540 · OtherWESTERN STATES CENTER: $531,000 · Other+88 more: $5,537,627 · Other+88 moreTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $3,260,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDER…JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $850,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FUNDERS N…FLAMBOYAN FOUNDATION INC: $160,000 · Philanthropy+7 more: $361,319 · Philanthropy+7 moreMOISHE HOUSE: $1,127,500 · ReligionMOISHE HOUSESIXTH & I SYNAGOGUE INC: $620,000 · ReligionSIXTH & I SYNAG…HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $616,875 · ReligionHILLEL THE FOUN…ONETABLE INC: $605,000 · ReligionONETABLE INCJEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE INC: $500,540 · ReligionJEWS UNITED FOR…REBOOT INC: $500,000 · ReligionREBOOT INCLEHRHAUS CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AND LEARNING INC: $250,000 · ReligionLEHRHAUS CENTER…+2 more: $63,800 · ReligionFROM THE TOP INC: $520,000 · Arts & CultureFROM THE TOP…FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $482,500 · Arts & CultureFACING HISTO…SITAR ARTS CENTER: $425,000 · Arts & CultureSITAR ARTS C…THE WASHINGTON BALLET: $405,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WASHINGT…DANCE PLACE: $365,000 · Arts & CultureDANCE PLACELEVINE MUSIC INC: $255,300 · Arts & CultureLEVINE MUSIC…Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum: $250,000 · Arts & CultureLillian and …JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $177,500 · Arts & CultureATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $145,000 · Arts & Culture+12 more: $485,130 · Arts & Culture+12 moreCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $960,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S NATIONAL: $390,000 · HealthTHE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC: $355,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $162,512 · HealthCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $152,500 · Health+4 more: $112,150 · HealthICIVICS INC: $665,000 · EducationDC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $430,000 · EducationWAY TO RISE: $250,000 · EducationVALLEY BEIT MIDRASH: $228,300 · EducationISRAEL ON CAMPUS COALITION INC: $100,000 · EducationGOUCHER COLLEGE: $80,000 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR CURRICULUM SERVICES: $75,000 · Education+11 more: $223,450 · EducationThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $1,617,500 · InternationalCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $89,500 · International+8 more: $174,500 · International
Other$12,548,785Philanthropy$4,631,319Religion$4,283,715Arts & Culture$3,510,430Health$2,132,162Education$2,051,750International$1,881,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $3,260,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetTHE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION: $1,900,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $1,617,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMOISHE HOUSE: $1,127,500 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $960,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $951,903 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $850,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetBUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC: $672,675 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetICIVICS INC: $665,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetSIXTH & I SYNAGOGUE INC: $620,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $616,875 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetONETABLE INC: $605,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $578,040 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC: $550,540 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetWESTERN STATES CENTER: $531,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetFROM THE TOP INC: $520,000 over 7y, 7.0% of budgetEDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC: $516,079 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetJEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE INC: $500,540 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetREBOOT INC: $500,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $482,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY: $452,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetDC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $430,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetSITAR ARTS CENTER: $425,000 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON BALLET: $405,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetMAMATOTO VILLAGE INC: $390,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S NATIONAL: $390,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDANCE PLACE: $365,000 over 6y, 7.8% of budgetTHE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC: $355,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDC ACTION FOR CHILDREN TODAY DC ACT: $315,540 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetREPAIR THE WORLD: $275,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetMary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc: $266,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLEVINE MUSIC INC: $255,300 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetLillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum: $250,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetLEHRHAUS CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AND LEARNING INC: $250,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetWAY TO RISE: $250,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $247,215 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetVALLEY BEIT MIDRASH: $228,300 over 5y, 8.8% of budget350ORG: $225,991 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA: $205,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCOLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND: $200,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $177,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $162,512 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFLAMBOYAN FOUNDATION INC: $160,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $152,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $150,540 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $150,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetATLAS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $145,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $126,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds MOISHE HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC ↗
  • Who funds ICIVICS INC ↗
  • Who funds SIXTH & I SYNAGOGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
  • Who funds ONETABLE INC ↗
  • Who funds LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN STATES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FROM THE TOP INC ↗
  • Who funds EDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds REBOOT INC ↗
  • Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY ↗
  • Who funds DC PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds SITAR ARTS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE WASHINGTON BALLET ↗
  • Who funds MAMATOTO VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S NATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds DANCE PLACE ↗
  • Who funds THE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds DC ACTION FOR CHILDREN TODAY DC ACT ↗
  • Who funds REPAIR THE WORLD ↗
  • Who funds Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc ↗
  • Who funds LEVINE MUSIC INC ↗
  • Who funds Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum ↗
  • Who funds LEHRHAUS CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AND LEARNING INC ↗
  • Who funds WAY TO RISE ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY BEIT MIDRASH ↗
  • Who funds 350ORG ↗

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.

The Morris and Gwendo…Combined Jewish Phila…England Family Founda…Greater Washington Co…The Morningstar Phila…The Jewish Federation…Philip L Graham Fund …Galena-Yorktown Found…The Robert P and Arle…The Gary and Pennie A…Clark Charitable Foun…The Shimon Ben Joseph…
The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz FoundationDC40× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Jewish Family Service & Children's Center of Clifton-Passaicinc: 19% of income from government
  • Icivics Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Imagination Stage Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Action for Boston Community Development Inc: 11% of income from government
  • The Strathmore Hall Foundation Inc: 7% of income from government
  • From the Top Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Island Housing Trust Corporation: 1% of income from government
  • Bender Jcc of Greater Washington: 1% of income from government
  • Jewish Social Service Agency: 1% of income from government
  • Yeshiva of Greater Washington Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Goucher College: 0% of income from government
  • Island Grown Initiative Ltd: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
25report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 174 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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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home