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Polytechnic School

The mission of POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL is to develop the unique intellect, talents, and character of each student in a community dedicated to academic excellence, personal responsibility, and service to others. The school envisions a community of students, inspired by transformative teaching, who will contribute profoundly to the world as…

$5.9M
Granted FY2021
3
Itemized grants FY2021
3
Organizations funded FY2021
100%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$20k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$6,500
Largest grant, FY2021
$7,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 3
FY2020 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
2
Total assets, FY2021
$203M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 100% of the organizations Polytechnic School funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20213$20k100%
FY20202$40kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Education$33kHousing & Shelter$7kRecreation & Sports$7kEnvironment$7kHealth$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Utu Social Ventures$32,7731n/a
FAMILY HOPE dba ELIZABETH HOUSE$7,36311%
Legacy Connections$7,00010%
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc$6,50010%
The Lily Project Inc$6,49013%

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About Polytechnic School

How much does Polytechnic School give?
Polytechnic School reported 3 itemized grants totaling $19,990, out of $5,879,692 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 3 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2021.
What does Polytechnic School fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2021, its largest causes are Education (55%), Housing & Shelter (12%), Recreation & Sports (12%).
Who are Polytechnic School's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2021: Utu Social Ventures ($33k), FAMILY HOPE dba ELIZABETH HOUSE ($7k), Legacy Connections ($7k).
Does Polytechnic School fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Polytechnic School based?
Polytechnic School is based in CA.

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 5 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $6.8M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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