Wisconsin · Private foundation
Pollybill Foundation Inc
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.
- $495k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Pollybill Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 76% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k 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 | 21 | $485k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $362k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $141k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $48k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $48k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $48k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $48k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $52k | 75% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado State University Foundation | $956,800 | 1 | 1% |
| Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc | $400,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Milwaukee Public Museum Inc | $245,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Friends of Schlitz Audubon Nature Center Inc | $113,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Milwaukee Domes Alliance Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Forest Home Historic Preservation Association Inc | $65,000 | 8 | 5% |
| Hawaiian Islands Land Trust | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Milwaukee Art Museum Inc | $60,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Ascension Wisconsin Foundation Inc | $35,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado State University Foundation | $956,800 | 1 | 1% |
| Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc | $400,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Milwaukee Public Museum Inc | $245,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Friends of Schlitz Audubon Nature Center Inc | $113,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Milwaukee Domes Alliance Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Forest Home Historic Preservation Association Inc | $65,000 | 8 | 5% |
| Hawaiian Islands Land Trust | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Milwaukee Art Museum Inc | $60,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Ascension Wisconsin Foundation Inc | $35,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Environmental Working Group | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Marin Horizon School Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Marin Humane Society | $12,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Marine Mammal Center | $12,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $12,000 | 3 | 0% |
| She-Can Global Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Ritter Center | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Marin Agricultural Land Trust | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Pollybill Foundation Inc 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.
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How this is measured
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About Pollybill Foundation Inc
- How much does Pollybill Foundation Inc give?
- Pollybill Foundation Inc reported 22 grants totaling $495,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Pollybill Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (30%), Philanthropy (28%), Arts & Culture (24%).
- Who are Pollybill Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Colorado State University Foundation ($957k), Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc ($400k), Milwaukee Public Museum Inc ($245k).
- Does Pollybill Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Pollybill Foundation Inc 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 Pollybill Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, American Endowment Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is Pollybill Foundation Inc based?
- Pollybill Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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