How much does Lucile and Maurice Pollak Fund give?

Lucile and Maurice Pollak Fund reported 119 grants totaling $166,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 125 and 142 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Lucile and Maurice Pollak Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (23%), Education (20%), Arts & Culture (9%).

Who are Lucile and Maurice Pollak Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Monmouth University Inc ($53k), Monmouth Medical Center Foundation Inc ($32k), Nextmark Foundation Inc ($24k).

Does Lucile and Maurice Pollak Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Lucile and Maurice Pollak Fund accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Lucile and Maurice Pollak Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Oceanfirst Foundation, Manasquan Bank Charitable Foundation Inc, New Jersey Natural Gas Company Charity Inc.

Where is Lucile and Maurice Pollak Fund based?

Lucile and Maurice Pollak Fund is based in NJ.

Lucile and Maurice Pollak Fund

Lucile and Maurice Pollak Fund at a glance

· Private foundation

Lucile and Maurice Pollak Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$166k

Granted FY2025still arriving

119

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$8k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$193kEducation$162kArts & Culture$71kInternational$69kFood & Nutrition$62kEnvironment$54kHousing & Shelter$44kReligion$26kOther$0

02FY2025 · 119 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY	$8,000
CENTERS FOR ARTS BONITA SPRINGS	$6,000
MONMOUTH MEDICAL CTR FOUND	$5,500
DOCTORS WO BORDERS	$5,100
MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL	$4,750
NEXTMARK FOUNDATION	$4,500
NATIONAL MS SOCIETY	$4,500
PLANNED PARENT FED OF AMERICA	$4,100
FRIENDS OF MONMOUTH COUNTY PARK SYSTEM	$3,500
TISCH MS RESEARCH CENTER OF NY	$3,000
WESTR COMMTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION	$3,000
BRIDGE HOUSE	$3,000
FULFILL FORMERLY FOOD BANK OF MONOCEAN CTY	$3,000
PACE UNIVERSITY - DYSON COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES	$3,000
ANGELA HOSPICE HOME CARE	$2,700

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

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.

$930k · 175 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

175 repeat relationships: 109 still active in FY2025, 66 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

175

Total granted

$930k

$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%

+12%

Still filing today

66%

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureEnvironmentEducationOther

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

MU
MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $53k · revenue +6%
MM
MONMOUTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $32k · revenue +16%
BH
Bridge House
6× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +77%

Funded once

WP
WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL CENTER
one grant, 2021 · $5k
GB
GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC
one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +1%
TM
THE MICHAEL GERARD PUHARIC MEMORIAL FUND INC
one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -66%

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.

New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health

University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture

Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Village Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Waterwheel Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

144 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. 144 of the 231 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

143/144

Grantees still filing

101/144

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$572,294Education$109,250Health$76,150International$72,300Human Services$65,795Environment$45,150Arts & Culture$40,130

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

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.

Oceanfirst FoundationNJ39× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Oceanfirst Foundation · Manasquan Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · New Jersey Natural Gas Company Charity Inc · The Jay and Linda Grunin Foundation D/B/A Grunin Foundation · The Stone Foundation of New Jersey · The Ansell Grimm & Aaron Foundation Inc · Mary Owen Borden Memorial Fund · Kearnybank Foundation Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · The Foodbank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties Inc D/B/A Fulfill · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The New York Community Trust

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 Lucile and Maurice Pollak Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lucile and Maurice Pollak Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

21get no government money at all

32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

3rely 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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