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Pollack Family Foundation Trust at a glance

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Pollack Family Foundation Trust

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.

$231k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$103k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its 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, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$928kEducation$125kInternational$103kReligion$70kArts & Culture$21kMembership Benefit$10kHuman Services$10kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $205k
$101,510
Median grant
3
States reached
$665k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FD TR$103,176
JP MORGAN DONOR ADVISED FUND$101,510
B'NAI JESHURUN$25,000
CALVARY FUND$1,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JP MORGAN DONOR ADVISED FUND: $102k → 7%ADELPHI UNIVERSITY: $25k → 6%HACKLEY SCHOOL: $25k → 9%ROUNDABOUT THEATER CO: $4k → 17%EDITH & CARL MARKS JEWISH: $5k → 20%CALVARY FUND: $1k → 28%JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM: $14k → 11%MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FD TR: $103k → 16%ADELPHI UNIVERSITY: $25k → 6%ROUNDABOUT THEATRE CO: $4k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM: $6k → 11%ADELPHI UNIVERSITY: $25k → 6%ROUNDABOUT THEATER CO: $3k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM: $5k → 11%ADELPHI UNIVERSITY: $25k → 6%UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $150k → 17%JEWISH FED OF PALM BEACH CNTY: $5k → 11%UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $150k → 17%THE KRAVIS CENTER: $5k → 11%UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $150k → 17%UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $125k → 17%UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $125k → 17%UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK: $102k → 17%NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC: $3k → 17%NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC: $3k → 17%ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY FUND: $5k → 17%ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY FUND: $5k → 17%THE ACTORS FUND: $5k → 17%THE ACTORS FUND: $5k → 17%B'NAI JESHURUN: $25k → 17%B'NAI JESHURUN: $15k → 17%B'NAI JESHURUN: $10k → 17%B'NAI JESHURUN: $5k → 17%B'NAI JESHURUN: $5k → 17%B'NAI JESHURUN: $5k → 17%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 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.
$999k · 6 repeat orgs$254k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$999k
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+27%

Still filing today

67%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $206k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyEducationMembership BenefitCivil RightsOther
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

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $802k · revenue +39%
  • AU
    ADELPHI UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2017–2022 · $100k · revenue +34%
  • TA
    THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA
    4× · 2019–2023 · $20k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • HS
    HACKLEY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +2%
  • JF
    JEWISH FED OF PALM BEACH CNTY
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • RF
    RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +27%
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
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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3
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
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
The Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association

For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…

Religion
6
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
7
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
8
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
9
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
10
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
11
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
12
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Roundabout Theatre Company 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

11 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. 11 of the 17 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $801,780 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC+1 more: $25,000 · PhilanthropyMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FD TR: $103,176 · OtherMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMP…JP MORGAN DONOR ADVISED FUND: $101,510 · OtherJP MORGAN DONOR ADVISED F…CONGREGATION BNAI JESHURUN: $65,000 · OtherCONGREGATION BNAI JESHURU…+3 more: $17,000 · Other+3 moreADELPHI UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationHACKLEY SCHOOL: $25,000 · HealthCALVARY FUND INC: $1,000 · Health+1 more: $250 · HealthTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $20,000 · Membership BenefitRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $3,600 · Civil Rights
Philanthropy$826,780Other$286,686Education$100,000Health$26,250Membership Benefit$20,000Arts & Culture$14,000Civil Rights$3,600

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $801,780 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetADELPHI UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHACKLEY SCHOOL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALVARY FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Pollack Family Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pollack Family Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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