Illinois · Private foundation
Polen Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $141k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2024
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 32 to 36
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 23% of the organizations Polen Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 34 | $137k | 3% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $126k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $92k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $84k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $87k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $26,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $25,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities Inc | $23,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Aspen Valley Hospital Foundation | $19,200 | 2 | 0% |
| Chicago Zoological Society | $12,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $12,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $11,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Cancer Wellness Center | $9,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Wildaid Inc | $8,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($289k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Polen 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: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Polen Family Foundation
- How much does Polen Family Foundation give?
- Polen Family Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $140,700 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 36 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Polen Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (21%), Human Services (16%), International (11%).
- Who are Polen Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Friends of the Israel Defense Forces ($26k), The Salvation Army ($25k), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($25k).
- Does Polen Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Polen 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 Polen Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Polen Family Foundation based?
- Polen Family Foundation is based in IL.
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