Delaware · Private foundation
Pollyanna Foundation
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.
- $225k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $62,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Pollyanna Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $225k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $210k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $195k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $190k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $161k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $157k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $150k | 82% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $135k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Family Services of Delaware Inc | $254,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Congregation Beth Shalom Inc | $79,000 | 6 | n/a |
| West End Neighborhood House Inc | $64,700 | 5 | 0% |
| Jewish Federation of Lane County | $31,500 | 5 | 6% |
| Delaware Art Museum Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Synagogue of the Summit | $15,000 | 4 | n/a |
| The Andrew McDonough B Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Kingswood Community Center Inc | $9,000 | 2 | 0% |
| YWCA Delaware Inc | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Family Services of Delaware Inc | $254,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Congregation Beth Shalom Inc | $79,000 | 6 | n/a |
| West End Neighborhood House Inc | $64,700 | 5 | 0% |
| Jewish Federation of Lane County | $31,500 | 5 | 6% |
| Delaware Art Museum Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Synagogue of the Summit | $15,000 | 4 | n/a |
| The Andrew McDonough B Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Kingswood Community Center Inc | $9,000 | 2 | 0% |
| YWCA Delaware Inc | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Rohr Chabad House at Vanderbilt University | $5,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Food Bank of Delaware Inc | $5,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Delaware Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Reading Assist Institute | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Healthy Foods for Healthy Kids Inc | $4,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Jewish Family Service | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Delaware Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Autism Delaware Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| National Ramah Commission Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Central Synagogue | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Literacy Delaware | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($881k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Pollyanna 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: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Longwood Foundation Inc · Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc · United Way of Delaware · Incyte Charitable Giving Foundation · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Welfare Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · The Diane and Harry Levin Foundation
How this is measured
About Pollyanna Foundation
- How much does Pollyanna Foundation give?
- Pollyanna Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $225,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Pollyanna Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (42%), Philanthropy (18%), Religion (18%).
- Who are Pollyanna Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Jewish Family Services of Delaware Inc ($255k), Congregation Beth Shalom Inc ($79k), West End Neighborhood House Inc ($65k).
- Does Pollyanna Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Pollyanna 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 Pollyanna Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Delaware Community Foundation Inc, Laffey-McHugh Foundation, Longwood Foundation Inc.
- Where is Pollyanna Foundation based?
- Pollyanna Foundation is based in DE.
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