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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 FY2025still arriving
83
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$275kEducation$225kReligion$172kArts & Culture$103kInternational$70kFood & Nutrition$43kHealth$33kPublic Safety & Disaster$31kOther$0
02FY2025 · 83 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k77 grants · $116k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $91k
$1,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Congregation Beth Shalom$27,603
Jewish United Fund$16,688
Roycemore School$15,000
Jewish Federation of Greater Naples$11,000
Friends of the Israel Defenses Forces$10,988
JCYS$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF IEAF$8,000
THE CONSERVATION FUND$5,500
Friends of Chicago Harbor Lighthouse$5,500
Telluride Adaptive Sports$5,500
Lake Forest Open Lands$5,250
Rebuilding Together$5,000
LAKE COUNTRY FOREST PRESERVE PRESERVATION FND$5,000
Northern Illinois Food Bank$5,000
Chicago Public Media (WEBEZ)$5,000
02The need
03

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, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Wounded Warrior Project: $250 → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $150 → 14%Montgomery Hospice: $100 → 8%San Miguel Resource Center: $2k → 7%North Shore Senior Center: $250 → 14%American Red Cross: $263 → 14%North Shore Senior Center: $120 → 14%North Shore Senior Center: $100 → 14%NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $100 → 14%San Miguel Resource Center: $1k → 7%San Miguel Resource Center: $1k → 7%Open Heart Magic: $650 → 14%San Miguel Resource Center: $500 → 7%Open Heart Magic: $350 → 14%Open Heart Magic: $250 → 14%Inspiration Corporation: $250 → 14%San Miguel Resource Center: $250 → 7%JCC Chicago: $1k → 14%Cradles to Crayons: $519 → 14%Cradles to Crayons: $500 → 14%The Bloc: $500 → 14%JEWISH CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

ME
WA
ID
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$876k · 103 repeat orgs$214k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

103 repeat relationships: 61 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

103
102

Total granted

$876k
$185k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+16%

Still filing today

65%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • JU
    JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
    6× · 2020–2025 · $159k · revenue +13%
  • RS
    ROYCEMORE SCHOOL
    5× · 2020–2025 · $38k · revenue +25%
  • MC
    MARINE CORPS-LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDA FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +197%

Funded once

  • PI
    PEF Israel Endowment Funds Inc (National Yizhak
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • JC
    JEWISH COUNCIL FOR YOUTH SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +61%
  • BN
    BING NURSURY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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.

1
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
3
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
4
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
5
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
6
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
7
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
8
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
9
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
10
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
11
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
12
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; the most unlike its peers is Balaker Media 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

135 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. 135 of the 230 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
132/135
Grantees still filing
97/135
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM: $146,019 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH SHALOMJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NAPLES INC: $48,438 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NAPLES INCPEF Israel Endowment Funds Inc (National Yizhak: $30,000 · OtherFriends of the Israel Defenses Forces: $29,897 · OtherRavinia: $25,542 · OtherJCYS: $25,250 · Other+132 more: $435,312 · Other+132 moreJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $158,688 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED FU…+7 more: $5,439 · PhilanthropyROYCEMORE SCHOOL: $38,250 · EducationROYCEMORE SCH…MARINE CORPS-LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDA FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · EducationMARINE CORPS-…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF …EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $10,000 · EducationEASTSIDE COLL…COUNTRYSIDE MONTESSORI SCHOOLS INC: $10,000 · EducationCOUNTRYSIDE M…BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $5,300 · EducationTHE TIKVAH FUND: $5,000 · EducationUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $5,000 · Education+6 more: $11,931 · Education+6 moreNATIONAL COAST GUARD MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC: $11,000 · Arts & CultureARTIS-NAPLES INC: $7,550 · Arts & CultureFriends of the Chicago Harbor Lighthouse: $6,500 · Arts & CultureBALAKER MEDIA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureChicago Children's Museum: $2,000 · Arts & CultureNAVY PIER INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATREZONEINC: $1,600 · Arts & CultureKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry: $1,550 · Arts & CultureEVANSTON ART CENTER: $1,500 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $4,025 · Arts & CultureEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $23,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $1,750 · Civil Rights+1 more: $700 · Civil RightsCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $5,553 · HealthTELLLURIDE EMERGENCY TECHNICIANS ASSOC: $5,500 · HealthDRUG POLICY ALLIANCE: $3,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,500 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,300 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,300 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $1,050 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · HealthCHICAGO COALITION FOR FAMILY BUILDING: $1,000 · Health+7 more: $3,207 · HealthCOAST GUARD MUTUAL ASSISTANCE: $13,750 · Public BenefitCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $9,750 · Public Benefit+1 more: $750 · Public Benefit
Other$740,458Philanthropy$164,127Education$135,481Arts & Culture$44,725Civil Rights$28,950Health$24,410Public Benefit$24,250

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $158,688 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NAPLES INC: $48,438 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetROYCEMORE SCHOOL: $38,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE CORPS-LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDA FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $23,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTELLURIDE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMAN DBA TELLURIDE ARTS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCOAST GUARD MUTUAL ASSISTANCE: $13,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COUNCIL FOR YOUTH SERVICES: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL COAST GUARD MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGLENCOE JUNIOR KINDERGARTEN AND NURSERY SCHOOL: $10,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetEASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNTRYSIDE MONTESSORI SCHOOLS INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $9,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetARTIS-NAPLES INC: $7,550 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION: $7,250 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Chicago Harbor Lighthouse: $6,500 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $6,050 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $5,553 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTELLLURIDE EMERGENCY TECHNICIANS ASSOC: $5,500 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $5,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND CHANCE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TIKVAH FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBALAKER MEDIA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSAN MIGUEL RESOURCE CENTER (SMRC): $4,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $4,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $4,096 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLINK Unlimited Scholars: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTELLURIDE ADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAM: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDRUG POLICY ALLIANCE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAMBS FARM INC: $2,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $2,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLONE CONE LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $2,750 over 5y, 9.1% of budgetACTBLUE CHARITIES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTelluride Historical Museum Inc: $2,150 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEXPERIENCE CAMPS: $2,126 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMICHAEL THOMPSON CLEMENCY PROJECT: $2,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budget
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.

  • Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NAPLES INC ↗
  • Who funds ROYCEMORE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MARINE CORPS-LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TELLURIDE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMAN DBA TELLURIDE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds COAST GUARD MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COUNCIL FOR YOUTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL COAST GUARD MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GLENCOE JUNIOR KINDERGARTEN AND NURSERY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds COUNTRYSIDE MONTESSORI SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTIS-NAPLES INC ↗
  • Who funds START EARLY ↗
  • Who funds LAKE FOREST OPEN LANDS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds Friends of the Chicago Harbor Lighthouse ↗
  • Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗

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.

Jewish Federation of …Circle of Service Fou…The Chicago Community…John D and Catherine …The Lisa and Victor N…The Thomas Phillips a…Telluride FoundationAbbVie FoundationBaxter International …Arie and Ida Crown Me…The Dalton Family Fou…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL38.2× affinity19 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Podolsky Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Podolsky Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • National Coast Guard Museum Association Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Gulfshore Playhouse Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
36report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 230 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home