· Private foundation
Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k34 grants · $103k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $47,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY | $10,500 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM | $9,500 |
| HYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY | $8,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER KANSAS CITY | $6,000 |
| JUDAISM ALIVEJEWISH ROCK RADIO | $5,000 |
| BURNS RECOVERED SUPPORT GROUP | $5,000 |
| KC SHEPHERD'S CENTER | $4,000 |
| OASIS LEGAL SERVICES | $4,000 |
| STAGE OF LIFE (SOL) THEATRE COMPANY | $4,000 |
| JORDAN THOMAS FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $3,500 |
| HUMANE COLORADO | $3,000 |
| RIDHWAN FOUNDATIONN | $3,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $128k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 20% of Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- VSVILLAGE SHALOM INC5× · 2020–2025 · $106k · revenue +51%
- TATHE ASPEN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC4× · 2020–2023 · $34k · revenue +22%
- BRBURNS RECOVERED SUPPORT GROUP INC6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- HFHEALTHIER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $6k
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +38%
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF DANVILLE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +56%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League and the most unlike its peers is Caring International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 70 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE SHALOM INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BURNS RECOVERED SUPPORT GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds HYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds JORDAN THOMAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Brothers for Life ↗
- Who funds WONDERSCOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Oasis Legal Services ↗
- Who funds Groupmuse Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SHEP'S PLACE SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds Horizons Foundation ↗
- Who funds Colorado Professional Fire Fighters Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds JUDAISM ALIVE DBA JEWISH ROCK RADIO ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Spahr Center ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN GREATER KANSAS CITY SECTION INC ↗
- Who funds Richmond Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds OUR FAMILY COALITION ↗
- Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds STAGEWORX CO ↗
- Who funds REACHING OUT FROM WITHIN INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ENSEMBLE THEATRE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · G Kenneth and Ann Baum Philanthropic Fund · Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation · Abe & Anna Bograd Memorial Trust 10030800 · The Francis Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Lowenstein Family Supporting Foundation · The Harold and Marilyn Melcher Foundation · Nerman Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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