Illinois · Private foundation
Podolsky Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $207k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 83
- Grants FY2025
- 94
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $27,603
- Organizations funded a year
- 68 to 95
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Podolsky Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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 | 80 | $195k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 94 | $184k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 95 | $172k | 32% |
| FY2022 | 84 | $141k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 68 | $201k | 63% |
| FY2020 | 79 | $196k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $158,688 | 6 | 0% |
| Congregation Beth Shalom | $146,019 | 6 | n/a |
| Roycemore School | $38,250 | 5 | 0% |
| Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Founda Foundation Inc | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Equal Justice Initiative | $23,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Telluride Council for the Arts and Human Dba Telluride Arts | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Coast Guard Mutual Assistance | $13,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Jewish Council for Youth Services | $12,500 | 1 | 0% |
| National Coast Guard Museum Association Inc | $11,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Glencoe Junior Kindergarten and Nursery School | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 142 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 82 recipients with no EIN on record ($347k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Podolsky Family 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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Circle of Service Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Lisa and Victor Nemeroff Foundation · The Thomas Phillips and Jane Moore Johnson Foundation · Telluride Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Baxter International Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · The Dalton Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
About Podolsky Family Foundation
- How much does Podolsky Family Foundation give?
- Podolsky Family Foundation reported 83 grants totaling $207,038 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 68 and 95 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Podolsky Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (24%), Education (19%), Religion (15%).
- Who are Podolsky Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($159k), Congregation Beth Shalom ($146k), Roycemore School ($38k).
- Does Podolsky Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Podolsky Family 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 Podolsky Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Circle of Service Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Podolsky Family Foundation based?
- Podolsky Family Foundation is based in IL.
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