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Polack Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Polack Family Foundation Inc

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.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$53kFood & Nutrition$10kArts & Culture$10kEnvironment$3kAnimals$1k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$175k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OKLAHOMA PERFORMING ARTS INC$10,000
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 (FY23–24, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ALMOST HOME KIDS: $10k → 7%ZACHARIAH'S ACRES: $7k → 5%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.
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 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
Tracys Kids Inc

Tracy's Kids uses Art Therapy to help young cancer patients and their families cope with the emotional stress imposed by the disease and its treatment. Our work ranges from individual art therapy sessions with inpatients who may be…

Health
2
Pediatric Faculty Foundation Inc

We value excellence and innovation in clinical and basic research, coordinated and comprehensive patient care, ongoing physician education, and evidence-based child advocacy. our goal is to provide leadership in endeavors that promote the…

Health
3
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
4
Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation
Human Services
5
Tricias Hope Inc

The organization provides support to individuals and families affected by cancer.

Health
6
CaringBridge

CaringBridge has a single vision: a world where no one goes through a health journey alone. In order to turn this vision into reality, we've made it our mission to build bridges of care and communication providing love and support on a…

Health
7
Rogers Behavioral Health System Inc

Our vision:we envision a future where people have the tools to rise above the challenges of mental illness, addiction, and stigma to lead healthy lives. we bring this vision to life by constantly elevating the standard for behavioral…

Health
8
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation

To optimize philanthropy in support of the mission and future of the children's hospital of chicago medical center.

Health
9
Pediatric Specialty Group Inc

Pediatric specialty group, inc. (d/b/a nicklaus children's pediatric specialists ("ncps")) is a physician-directed, multi-specialty pediatric group with a regional, national, and international presence in providing pediatric-centric care…

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10
Children's Medical Group Inc

To provide quality, accessible primary health care services to all children in our community, advocate for the well-being of all children, educate children, families, health care professionals and our community regarding the health of…

Health
11
Miami Children's Hospital Research Institute Inc

The NCHRI directly supports the NICKLAUS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ("NCH") mission to provide hope through advanced care for our children and families. (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O)

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12
Kids Home Care Inc

The corporation is organized for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes, and to provide pediatric home health care, alternate site and other pediatric services to pediatric patients. in addition, kids home care conducts health…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Midwest Athletes Against Childhood Cancer Inc; the most unlike its peers is Emma Loves Dogs Inc. 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

10 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. 10 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NAMI National: $10,000 · HealthNAMI NationalMIDWEST ATHLETES AGAINST CHILDHOOD CANCER INC: $8,000 · HealthMIDWEST ATHLETES AGAINST CHILDHOOD CANCER INCROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 · HealthROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCLIFESTRIDERS INC: $5,000 · HealthLIFESTRIDERS INCTRICIAS TROOPS INC: $5,000 · HealthTRICIAS TROOPS INCAlmost Home Kids: $10,000 · Human ServicesAlmost Home KidsZACHARIAH'S ACRES INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesZACHARIAH'S ACRES INCHUNGER TASK FORCE INC: $10,000 · OtherHUNGER TASK FORCE I…LANDSCAPES FOR THE FUTURE: $3,000 · OtherLANDSCAPES FOR THE …OKLAHOMA PERFORMING ARTS INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureOKLAHOMA PERFO…EMMA LOVES DOGS INC: $1,000 · Animals
Health$36,000Human Services$17,000Other$13,000Arts & Culture$10,000Animals$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAlmost Home Kids: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUNGER TASK FORCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDWEST ATHLETES AGAINST CHILDHOOD CANCER INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetZACHARIAH'S ACRES INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLIFESTRIDERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTRICIAS TROOPS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetEMMA LOVES DOGS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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.

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.

Herbert H Kohl Charit…Baird Foundation IncGe Aerospace Foundati…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Herbert H Kohl Charities IncWI13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Polack Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Polack Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 11 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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