· Private foundation
Polasky Family Foundation
Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k36 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Yeshivas Lubavitch of Baltimore | $13,710 |
| Rohr Jewish Learning Inst | $13,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,800 |
| Chabad of Eastern Michigan | $5,235 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,600 |
| Accidental Talmudist | $2,500 |
| Colel Chabad | $2,160 |
| Chabad University of Washington | $2,160 |
| Various 501c3Orgs under 100 ea | $1,567 |
| Covenant Health Care Fdtn | $1,500 |
| ChabadOrg | $1,360 |
| World Jewish Congress | $974 |
| Karen Hashana Fund | $770 |
| Chabad of Seattle | $700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $558 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +136% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2019, 9 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2019, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CIChayenu Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $4k · revenue +202%
- TYTEN YAD KALLAH GEMACH INC3× · 2017–2019 · $2k · revenue +136%
- IEISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE3× · 2017–2019 · $1k · revenue +122%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
- CBCONGREGATION BNAI TESHUVAone grant, 2017 · $2k
- URUNDERGROUND RAILROAD INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +32%
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.
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.
To further jewish education in israel
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
To provide support to jewish religious education in israel and around the world, and provide financial assistance to and on behalf of yeshivah beth israel tifereth menachem.
Offering jewish adults a personal connection to judaism,fostering a sense of belonging to the greater jewishcommunity, and building bridges between jews of allbackgrounds. to date, over 74,000 men and women from 39countries have been…
To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.
To promote the furtherance of jewish religious and rabbinic education on a college and graduate level in israel and to increase the dissemination of scholarly research works in the fields of torah, talmud and halacha.
To provide support to yeshivath beth yehudah's adult education program
To provide funds for jewish occasions to help large families in need primarily in israel
The organization provides financial assistance to victims of acts of terrorism in the state of israel.
Promoting study of Mishnah and other Jewish texts
Furtherance of jewish education
Religious School
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 67 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Chayenu Inc ↗
- Who funds ACCIDENTAL TALMUDIST ↗
- Who funds TEN YAD KALLAH GEMACH INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FLINT JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds UNDERGROUND RAILROAD INC ↗
- Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALEPH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MAYANOT INSTITUTE 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.
Open a dossier: Harvey Memorial Foundation · Bierlein Companies Foundation · Wallace & Irene Bronner Family Charitable Foundation · Saginaw Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Polasky Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Polasky Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Aleph Institute Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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