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Polk Family Charitable Fund

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.

$275k
Granted FY2025still arriving
72
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$340kEducation$313kHealth$261kHuman Services$189kEnvironment$84kPhilanthropy$81kCommunity Improvement$78kEmployment$72kOther$0
02FY2025 · 72 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k66 grants · $137k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $88k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$1,200
Median grant
13
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CRADLES TO CRAYONS$50,000
FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$20,000
WELLESLEY COLLEGE$20,000
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS FOUNDATION$20,000
ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM FOUNDATION$14,000
COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION$14,000
ORT AMERICA$9,000
SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY$8,000
RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION$7,500
SCHOOL ALTERNATIVES$7,000
LURIE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$6,700
BOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS$6,650
CHURCH OF CHRIST CO LANDON WEEKS$6,000
AMERICAN ASSOC FOR SURGERY OF TRAUMA$5,000
THE MANNY&PAT SANCHEZ FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $178k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OPERATION WARM: $2k → 6%OPERATION WARM: $2k → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $3k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF COLORADO: $6k → 12%LUTHERAN CHURCH CHARITIES: $2k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF COLORADO: $6k → 12%LUTHERAN CHURCH CHARITIES: $2k → 8%NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $3k → 14%NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $3k → 14%NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $1k → 14%YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $30k → 14%BOULDER BUILDING BLOCKS FUND: $2k → 12%BOULDER BUILDING BLOCKS FUND: $1k → 12%HEARTLAND HUMAN CARE SERVICES: $3k → 14%INTERCAMBIO UNITING COMMUNITIES: $6k → 12%MOTHER'S TRUST FOUNDATION: $500 → 8%LATINO UNION: $6k → 14%INTERCAMBIO UNITING COMMUNITIES: $6k → 12%MOTHER'S TRUST FOUNDATION: $400 → 8%LATINO UNION: $5k → 14%INTERCAMBIO UNITING COMMUNITIES: $6k → 12%MOTHERS TRUST FOUNDATION: $300 → 8%INTERCAMBIO UNITING COMMUNITIES: $6k → 12%VIA MOBILITY SERVICES: $3k → 12%VIA MOBILITY SERVICES: $2k → 12%VIA MOBILITY SERVICES: $2k → 12%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $50k → 14%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $6k → 14%VIA MOBILITY SERVICES: $500 → 12%IMAGINE FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%IMAGINE FOUNDATION: $1k → 12%IMAGINE FOUNDATION: $1k → 12%IMAGINE FOUNDATION: $1k → 12%IMAGINE FOUNDATION: $1k → 12%IMAGINE FOUNDATION: $1k → 12%IMAGINE FOUNDATION: $1k → 12%HIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 8%HIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 8%ASPIRITECH NFP: $500 → 8%ASPIRITECH NFP: $500 → 8%HIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY CENTER: $500 → 8%ASPIRITECH NFP: $500 → 8%ASPIRITECH NFP: $500 → 8%ASPIRITECH NFP: $300 → 8%SHALVA: $2k → 14%SHALVA: $500 → 14%SHALVA: $400 → 14%SHALVA: $300 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
NV
PA
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
GA
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 107 repeat orgs$249k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

107 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2025, 51 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

107
69

Total granted

$1.5M
$223k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+25%

Still filing today

52%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • WC
    Wellesley College
    7× · 2018–2025 · $125k · revenue +81%
  • RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $110k · revenue +51%
  • OA
    ORT AMERICA INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $69k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • NL
    NORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue -43%
  • YM
    YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -4%
  • RW
    REVOLUTION WORKSHOPgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +66%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Chicago Bar Foundation

The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.

Education
2
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
3
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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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
Aids Foundation of Chicago

The aids foundation of chicago mobilizes communities to create equity and justice for people living with and vulnerable to hiv and related chronic disease.

Health
6
100 Club of Arizona

To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.

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7
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
8
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
9
Lodestar Charitable Foundation

To perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of the arizona community foundation, an az nonprofit corporation, so long as the arizona community foundation, inc. remains a qualified organization.

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10
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
11
The Vermont Community Foundation

The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.

Philanthropy
12
A Better Chicago

A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Lauri S Bauer Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Health Access Advocacy and …Policy Research and AdvocacyCommunity FoundationsCancer Support ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Food Banks and PantriesLocal Food System Organizat…Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Public Library OperationsIndependent K-12 SchoolsCommunity College Foundatio…Equine Therapy ProgramsYouth Sports ProgramsSchool District FoundationsYouth Development ServicesMilitary Veterans SupportSenior Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsAnimal Rescue and ShelterCommunity Arts CentersJewish Community Organizati…Dance Arts Organizations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%4%<5yr13%10%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr15%38%20–35yr14%19%35–55yr22%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr13%7%5–10yr18%7%10–20yr15%31%20–35yr14%13%35–55yr22%42%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/117
the rest of the field
12%
8,891/72,242

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

107 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 107 of the 194 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
103/107
Grantees still filing
69/107
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $74,000 · OtherROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM FOUNDATIONORT AMERICA INC — $69,200 · OtherORT AMERICA INCEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF SURGERY OF — $53,000 · OtherEASTERN ASSOCIATION OF SURGERY OFFRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $37,500 · OtherCANADIAN OPERA CO INC — $33,000 · OtherLURIE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $30,250 · OtherJewish Council on Urban Affairs — $55,500 · OtherJewish Council on Urban Affairs+127 more — $530,034 · Other+127 moreWellesley College — $125,000 · EducationWellesley Colleg…SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY — $52,700 · EducationSUFFOLK UNIVERSI…AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS FOUNDATION — $32,500 · EducationAMERICAN COLLEGE…AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS — $27,500 · EducationAMERICAN COLLEGE…+6 more — $20,600 · Education+6 moreRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION — $110,000 · Arts & CultureRAVINIA FESTI…CHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $24,500 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO POLIC…PRO PUBLICA INC — $21,250 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLICA I…TIMELINE THEATRE COMPANY — $18,000 · Arts & CultureTIMELINE THEA…+13 more — $32,636 · Arts & Culture+13 moreCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $55,959 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO …YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $30,000 · Human ServicesYWCA METROP…INTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES — $23,200 · Human ServicesINTERCAMBIO…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC — $11,850 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMI…Latino Union of Chicago — $10,500 · Human ServicesLatino Unio…IMAGINE FOUNDATION — $8,000 · Human ServicesVia Mobility Services — $7,500 · Human ServicesNORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER — $6,250 · Human Services+10 more — $26,050 · Human Services+10 moreCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION — $70,500 · PhilanthropySHAW FESTIVAL FOUNDATION — $18,000 · PhilanthropyDOWNTOWN BOULDER COMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $16,500 · Philanthropy+7 more — $8,550 · PhilanthropyWILD BEAR NATURE CENTER — $48,000 · EnvironmentCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY — $32,875 · Environment+1 more — $600 · EnvironmentNORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK — $40,000 · EmploymentREVOLUTION WORKSHOP — $30,000 · Employment
Other$882,484Education$258,300Arts & Culture$206,386Human Services$179,309Philanthropy$113,550Environment$81,475Employment$70,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWellesley College — $125,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION — $110,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION — $70,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetORT AMERICA INC — $69,200 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $55,959 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Council on Urban Affairs — $55,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetSUFFOLK UNIVERSITY — $52,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWILD BEAR NATURE CENTER — $48,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetNORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK — $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY — $32,875 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS FOUNDATION — $32,500 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetYWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREVOLUTION WORKSHOP — $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS — $27,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $24,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetINTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES — $23,200 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC — $21,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Wounded Blue — $21,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetTIMELINE THEATRE COMPANY — $18,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSHAW FESTIVAL FOUNDATION — $18,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPAWS CHICAGO — $16,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN BOULDER COMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $16,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC — $11,850 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS MEMORIAL FUND INC — $10,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBETTER GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION INC — $8,750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCANCER WELLNESS CENTER — $8,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetIMAGINE FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE SURGERY OF TRAUMA — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVia Mobility Services — $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL — $7,100 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPHOENIX LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSOCIATION CHARITIES — $7,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetBOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC — $6,900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDesert Stages Inc — $6,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER — $6,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWriters Theatre Inc — $5,866 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKESHET — $5,834 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJORDAN MICHAEL FILLER FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetPORTLAND STORY THEATER INC — $4,700 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetHEARTLAND ANIMAL SHELTER NFP — $4,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SILENT WITNESS INC — $4,500 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetBoulder Rotary Club — $4,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSCOTTSDALE POLICE FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSHALVA INC — $3,850 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK — $3,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST HELP INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Wellesley College ↗
  • Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ORT AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Council on Urban Affairs ↗
  • Who funds SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WILD BEAR NATURE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NORTH LAWNDALE EMPLOYMENT NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YWCA METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds REVOLUTION WORKSHOP ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES ↗
  • Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
  • Who funds The Wounded Blue ↗
  • Who funds TIMELINE THEATRE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds SHAW FESTIVAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN BOULDER COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC ↗
  • Who funds Latino Union of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …Jewish Federation of …Polk Bros Foundation …Emsa Fund IncThe Chicago Community…Dr Scholl FoundationArizona Community Fou…Motorola Solutions Fo…Lloyd a Fry FoundationArie and Ida Crown Me…Healthcare Foundation…AbbVie Foundation
Community Foundation Boulder CountyCO24.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation Boulder County · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Emsa Fund Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Dr Scholl Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Healthcare Foundation of Highland Park · AbbVie Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Polk Family Charitable Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • New Avenues for Youth Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Community Transitional School — 7% of income from government
  • Performance Works Northwest Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Pear — 1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
  • Suffolk University — 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
28report 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

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Polk Family Charitable Fund?

Find your warmest path to Polk Family Charitable Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 194 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines