· Private foundation
Reese & Linda Polesky Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEMPLE EMANUEL BEVERLY HILLS | $2,500 |
| WEST POINT JEWISH CHAPEL | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES | $400 |
| LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART | $300 |
| THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES | $200 |
| THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES | $150 |
| DISCOVERY EYE FOUNDATION | $150 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $100 |
| US NAVAL INSTITUTE | $100 |
| HAMMER MUSEUM | $75 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 100% of Reese & Linda Polesky Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 0%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MAMUSEUM ASSOCIATES9× · 2017–2025 · $2k · revenue +89%
- TMTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES5× · 2018–2025 · $804 · revenue +74%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES4× · 2022–2025 · $580 · revenue +28%
Funded once
- SUSTANDFORD UNIVERSIYone grant, 2018 · $100
- UUCLAone grant, 2021 · $100
- FOFRIENDS OF THE BEVERLY HILLS PUBLIC LIBRARYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $75 · revenue +36%
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.
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.
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.
To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
The museum's mission is to inspire all californians to create a more vibrant future for themselves and their communities. through collections, exhibitions, education programs, and public dialogue, we inspire people of all ages and…
The metropolitan museum of art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.
Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art
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.
The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…
The academy museum of motion pictures advances the understanding, celebration, and preservation of cinema through inclusive and accessible exhibitions, screenings, programs, initiatives, and collections. welcoming visitors from los angeles…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 22 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 MUSEUM ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY EYE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE BEVERLY HILLS PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CONSUMER REPORTS INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Reese & Linda Polesky Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Reese & Linda Polesky Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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