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.

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.

Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Charitable Foundation

Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Charitable Foundation

Q: 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%).

Q: Where is Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Charitable Foundation based?

Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Charitable Foundation is based in KS.

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$170k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$47k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

International$197kHuman Services$182kPhilanthropy$116kReligion$113kArts & Culture$98kFood & Nutrition$86kEducation$85kHealth$64kOther$0

02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k34 grants · $103k
$10k–50k3 grants · $68k

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
STAGE OF LIFE (SOL) THEATRE COMPANY	$4,000
JORDAN THOMAS FOUNDATION	$4,000
OASIS LEGAL SERVICES	$4,000
KC SHEPHERD'S CENTER	$4,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER	$3,500
GROUPMUSE FOUNDATION	$3,000
RIDHWAN FOUNDATIONN	$3,000

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, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-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.

Where the work is directed

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

About 20% of Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 4.9% 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$754k · 43 repeat orgs$67k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$754k

$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%

Still filing today

63%

44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureCrime & LegalAnimalsHealthOther

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

VS
VILLAGE SHALOM INC
5× · 2020–2025 · $106k · revenue +51%
TA
THE ASPEN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC
4× · 2020–2023 · $34k · revenue +22%
BR
BURNS RECOVERED SUPPORT GROUP INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +52%

Funded once

HF
HEALTHIER FOUNDATION
one grant, 2020 · $6k
AN
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +38%
DD
DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE COLORADO
one grant, 2024 · $5k

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.

Jewish Family Service

Jewish Family Service is a nonprofit social service organization that supports people of all faiths as they navigate through lifes's challenges - illness, aging , finanical uncertainty, mental health concerns, family problems, or personal…

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Jewish Film Institute

The Jewish Film Institute champions bold films and filmmakers that expand and evolve the Jewish story for audiences everywhere. Through its exhibition and artist development programs, JFI celebrates the spirit of film, inquiry,…

Arts & Culture

Jewish Community Centers of Denver

Provide recreational, cultural, education, and social programs to the community.

Human Services

Jewish Family Services of Greater Charleston Inc

To empower individuals, strengthen families, protect the vulnerable and help seniors age with dignity. Our work is based on Jewish values to improve quality of life regardless of race, religion, ethnic background, sexual orientation, or…

Human Services

Colorado Jobs With Justice Inc

Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families

Employment

Jewish Childrens Museum

To further jewish historical education among youths

Arts & Culture

Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services

JewishColumbus

Make Jewish life vibrant, accessible and secure in Columbus, Israel and around the world.

Religion

Jewish Coalition for Immigrant Justice Northwest

The jewish coalition builds a jewish voice in the pacific northwest advancing immigrant justice and domestic policy, following the leadership of impacted community.

Human Services

Holocaust Center for Humanity

The Holocaust Center for Humanity teaches the lessons of the Holocaust, inspiring students of all ages to confront bigotry and indifference, promote human dignity, and take action.

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Human Rights Campaign Foundation

The human rights campaign foundation is organized for the charitable and educational purposes of promoting public education and welfare for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (lgbtq+) community. the hrc foundation envisions…

Civil Rights

Jews for Racial & Economic Justice

Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Community (JFREJ Community) is a 501c3 non-profit organization committed to building a vibrant Jewish left working for social justice in New York City. JFREJ Community grows the New York Jewish Left by…

Civil Rights

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Dumb Friends League; 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.

05the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 70 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)

41/43

Grantees still filing

35/43

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$506,500Philanthropy$286,500Human Services$128,000Education$64,000Arts & Culture$49,000Crime & Legal$37,500Community Improvement$30,000

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.

Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO30.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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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