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Robert Gerard Pollock Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$350k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20232024.

Arts & Culture$320kHealth$250kEducation$235kHuman Services$150kReligion$100kEnvironment$25k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$100,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$8.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE LEGACY SENIOR COMMUNITIES$150,000
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY$100,000
THE PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE$100,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $100k → 16%LUMIN EDUCATION: $10k → 14%DALLAS ARBORETUM: $25k → 14%CREATIVE ARTS CENTER: $20k → 14%VISITING NURSES ASSOCIATION: $30k → 14%SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY: $100k → 14%THE LEGACY SENIOR COMMUNITIES: $150k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $20k → 14%UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $200k → 14%DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART: $150k → 14%DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $150k → 14%TEMPLE EMANU-EL: $100k → 14%DALLAS PUBLIC LIBRARY: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

2
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
3
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
4
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
5
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
7
Drake University

See schedule o.drake's mission is to provide an exceptional learning environment that prepares students for meaningful personal lives, professional accomplishments, and responsible global citizenship. the drake experience is distinguished…

Education
8
Dallas Contemporary

Dallas contemporary presents art in a forum that cultivates artists, ignites learning and inspires the community. dallas contemporary is a non-collecting art museum presenting new and challenging ideas from regional, national and…

Arts & Culture
9
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
10
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
11
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
12
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Museum of Art and the most unlike its peers is Planned Parenthood. 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 13 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER — $200,000 · OtherUT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTERDALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $150,000 · OtherDALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRATEMPLE EMANU-EL — $100,000 · OtherTEMPLE EMANU-ELDALLAS PUBLIC LIBRARY — $25,000 · OtherTHE LEGACY SENIOR COMMUNITIES INC — $150,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LEGACY SENIOR COMMUNITIES INCDallas Museum of Art — $150,000 · Arts & CultureDallas Museum of ArtCREATIVE ARTS CENTER OF DALLAS INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE ARTS CENTER OF DALLAS IN…Southern Methodist University — $100,000 · EducationSouthern Methodist Uni…President and Fellows of Harvard College — $100,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows …LUMIN EDUCATION — $10,000 · EducationVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS — $30,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD — $20,000 · HealthDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC — $25,000 · Environment
Other$475,000Arts & Culture$320,000Education$210,000Health$50,000Environment$25,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE LEGACY SENIOR COMMUNITIES INC — $150,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetDallas Museum of Art — $150,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSouthern Methodist University — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCREATIVE ARTS CENTER OF DALLAS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetLUMIN EDUCATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Robert Gerard Pollock Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Robert Gerard Pollock Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Robert Gerard Pollock 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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