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Jennifer Gordon Polan Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$30k
Granted FY2021
13
Grants FY2021
13
Organizations funded FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$6,000
States reached, FY2021
5
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
City Year Inc$6,00010%
Alternatives for Girls$6,00010%
Focushope$4,00010%
Habitat for Humanity International Inc$2,00010%
Say Detroit$2,00010%
Yad Ezra$1,00010%
St Leos Soup Kitchen$1,00011%
Birmingham Bloomfield Art Ctr Inc$1,00010%
The Greening of Detroit$50010%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($7k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jennifer Gordon Polan Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCity Year Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlternatives for Girls: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFocushope: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity International Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSay Detroit: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYad Ezra: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Leos Soup Kitchen: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBirmingham Bloomfield Art Ctr Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Greening of Detroit: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

United Way for Southe…Community Foundation …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
United Way for Southeastern MichiganMI14× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Community Foundation for Southeast · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

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About Jennifer Gordon Polan Foundation

How much does Jennifer Gordon Polan Foundation give?
Jennifer Gordon Polan Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $30,490 in its FY2021 IRS filing.
What does Jennifer Gordon Polan Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2021, its largest causes are Youth Development (20%), Public Benefit (20%), Civil Rights (13%).
Who are Jennifer Gordon Polan Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2021: City Year Inc ($6k), Alternatives for Girls ($6k), Focushope ($4k).
Does Jennifer Gordon Polan 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 Jennifer Gordon Polan Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way for Southeastern Michigan, Community Foundation for Southeast, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Jennifer Gordon Polan Foundation based?
Jennifer Gordon Polan Foundation is based in MI.

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 13 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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