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Poznanski Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.1M
Granted FY2020
20
Grants FY2020
3
States reached
$270k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Arts & Culture$971kRecreation & Sports$610kHealth$565kHuman Services$487kEducation$455kYouth Development$100kReligion$45kEmployment$25kOther$0
02FY2020 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k4 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $195k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $390k
  • $250k+2 grants · $520k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAMP ST ANDREWS$270,000
BROADWAY ROSE THEATRE CO$250,000
MERIDIAN PARK MEDICAL FOUNDATION$185,000
TUCKER MAXON SCHOOL$125,000
FRIENDLY HOUSE$80,000
BOYS AND GIRLS AID SOCIETY$40,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
HAVEN UNIVERSE$20,000
PORTLAND ROSE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION$20,000
UPLIFT FAMILY SERVICES$20,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
WARFIGHTER OUTFITTERS$15,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$10,000
SANTA MARIA URBAN MINISTRY$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $380k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%HAVEN UNIVERSE: $20k → 8%HAVEN UNIVERSE: $5k → 8%HAVEN UNIVERSE: $5k → 8%UPLIFT FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 8%FRIENDLY HOUSE: $100k → 12%FRIENDLY HOUSE: $100k → 12%FRIENDLY HOUSE: $80k → 12%FRIENDLY HOUSE: $50k → 12%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 20 repeat orgs$165k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2020, 11 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
8

Total granted

$3.2M
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+29%

Still filing today

45%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
Human ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • BROADWAY ROSE THEATRE CO
    4× · 2017–2020 · $870k · revenue +48%
  • CS
    CAMP ST ANDREWS INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $610k · revenue +54%
  • MP
    MERIDIAN PARK MEDICAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $535k · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • BC
    Braking Cyclesgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +56%
  • OA
    OPEN ARMS INTERNATIONAL DBA STAND BY ME USA
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -45%
  • DC
    DOERNBECHER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -43%
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
Trillium Family Services

Building brighter futures with children and families.

Housing & Shelter
2
Olalla Center

To help strengthen and heal children and families, and the community. olalla center's staff believes all children and families can heal and this premise is the foundation of olalla center's treatment philosophy and the basis for their work.

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3
Providence Health & Services - Washington

As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.

Health
4
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
5
Phoenix Children's Hospital

To advance hope, healing and the best healthcare for children and their families.

Health
6
Listen and Talk

Listen and Talk teaches deaf and hard of hearing children to communicate and learn through listening and spoken language.

Education
7
Depaul Community Resources

Depaul serves children and families involved in the child welfare system and children and adults with developmental disabilities. vision: opening doors to hope and belonging. corporate mission: we work to support the success of our cients…

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8
Family and Community Together

Fact oregon empowers families, youth, and communities to navigate disability systems, advocating together for disability justice and policy change so that people with disabilities have what they need to thrive at home, in school, and in…

Human Services
9
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
10
Adaptive Riding Institute Dba Horses of Hope Oregon

Our mission is to enhance the lives of individuals living with physical, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral challenges by providing innovative, accessible and safe equine-assisted therapeutic programs of the highest quality. we are…

Animals
11
Bender Jcc of Greater Washington

The bender jcc embraces and welcomes the diversity of our community and encourages everyone to seek meaning and fulfillment by participating in our rich programming inspired by our jewish heritage. we open our doors to everyone, including…

Human Services
12
Hillsides

We are a premier provider dedicated to healing children and young adults, strengthening families, and transforming communities through quality comprehensive services and advocacy. we envision a world in which children and young adults,…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels People Inc; the most unlike its peers is Warfighter Outfitters. 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

20 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. 20 of the 39 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MERIDIAN PARK MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $535,000 · OtherMERIDIAN PARK MEDICAL FOUNDATIONTUCKER MAXON SCHOOL: $225,000 · OtherTUCKER MAXON SCHOOLST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $180,000 · OtherST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOLPORTLAND ROSE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $77,656 · OtherPORTLAND ROSE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATIONBOYS AND GIRLS AID SOCIETY: $65,120 · OtherWARFIGHTER OUTFITTERS: $61,496 · Other+25 more: $275,417 · Other+25 moreBROADWAY ROSE THEATRE CO: $870,000 · PhilanthropyBROADWAY ROSE THEATRE COCAMP ST ANDREWS INC: $610,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP ST ANDREWS INCFRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $330,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDLY HOU…HAVEN UNIVERSE INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesHAVEN UNIVER…PACIFIC CLINICS: $20,000 · Human ServicesPORTLAND ROSE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Arts & CulturePortland YouthBuilders: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC: $20,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,419,689Philanthropy$870,000Recreation & Sports$610,000Human Services$380,000Arts & Culture$20,000Youth Development$20,000Food & Nutrition$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBROADWAY ROSE THEATRE CO: $870,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetMERIDIAN PARK MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $535,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetFRIENDLY HOUSE INC: $330,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetWARFIGHTER OUTFITTERS: $61,496 over 2y, 21% of budgetHAVEN UNIVERSE INC: $30,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetPACIFIC CLINICS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPORTLAND ROSE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPortland YouthBuilders: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGRESHAM BARLOW EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetBraking Cycles: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOPEN ARMS INTERNATIONAL DBA STAND BY ME USA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDOERNBECHER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $4,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY DOGS NEW LIFE SHELTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHope - A Dementia Support Group: $2,000 over 1y, 2.6% 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.

  • Who funds BROADWAY ROSE THEATRE CO ↗
  • Who funds CAMP ST ANDREWS INC ↗
  • Who funds MERIDIAN PARK MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDLY HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds TUCKER MAXON SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WARFIGHTER OUTFITTERS ↗
  • Who funds HAVEN UNIVERSE INC ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC CLINICS ↗
  • Who funds PORTLAND ROSE FESTIVAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Portland YouthBuilders ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC ↗
  • Who funds GRESHAM BARLOW EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Braking Cycles ↗
  • Who funds OPEN ARMS INTERNATIONAL DBA STAND BY ME USA ↗
  • Who funds DOERNBECHER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CURE JM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VANCOUVER SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY DOGS NEW LIFE SHELTER ↗
  • Who funds Hope - A Dementia Support Group ↗

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.

Juan Young TrustOR17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Juan Young Trust · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Clark Foundation · The Robert D and Marcia H Randall Charitable Trust · Onpoint Community Credit Union · The Autzen Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Portland YouthBuilders: 35% of income from government
  • Friendly House Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Portland Rose Festival Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Broadway Rose Theatre Co: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Poznanski Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Poznanski Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 39 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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