Kansas · Private foundation
Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $170k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 37
- Grants FY2025
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $47,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 37
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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 | 34 | $110k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 37 | $148k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $110k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $166k | 28% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $105k | 19% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $182k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Village Shalom Inc | $106,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Aspen Country Day School Inc | $34,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Burns Recovered Support Group Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy | $23,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Jordan Thomas Foundation Inc | $22,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Rose Brooks Center Inc | $21,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Wonderscope Inc | $20,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Brothers for Life | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Oasis Legal Services | $19,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Groupmuse Foundation Inc | $15,500 | 5 | 6% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($320k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Charitable 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: 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
How this is measured
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About Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Charitable Foundation
- How much does Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Charitable Foundation give?
- Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Charitable Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $170,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 37 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (18%), Human Services (16%), Philanthropy (10%).
- Who are Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Village Shalom Inc ($106k), The Aspen Country Day School Inc ($34k), Burns Recovered Support Group Inc ($30k).
- Does Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation, Oppenstein Brothers Foundation.
- Where is Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Charitable Foundation based?
- Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Charitable Foundation is based in KS.
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