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Robert Gerard Pollock Foundation at a glance

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Robert Gerard Pollock Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$125k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$320kHealth$250kEducation$235kHuman Services$150kReligion$100kEnvironment$25k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$125,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARKLAND HEALTH FOUNDATION$125,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%PARKLAND HEALTH FOUNDATION: $125k → 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
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 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.

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Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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Dallas County Medical Society

The mission of the dallas county medical society is to promote public health and advocate for physicians and their relationship with patients, while upholding professionalism in the practice of medicine.

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3
Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation

To fulfill its corporate goals as a non-profit research and development organization that applies scientific principles to: (a) test theories and ultimately develop methodologies and resources to support innovative health care services;…

Health
4
Mhs Physicians of Texas

Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…

Health
5
Dallas International University

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

Education
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Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
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Dallas Bar Association

The Dallas Bar Association is a nonprofit corporation chartered by the State of Texas to protect and advance the professional interests of persons licensed to practice law in the Dallas area, to improve the relations between the Bench, the…

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8
Trinity University

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

Education
9
Memorial Hermann Medical Group

Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…

Health
10
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
11
Boston Architectural College

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

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12
University of Dallas

The university of dallas is dedicated to the pursuit of wisdom, of truth, and of virtue as the proper and primary ends of education. the university seeks to educate its students so they may develop the intellectual and moral virtues,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Museum of Art; 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

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 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 …Dallas Museum of Art: $150,000 · Arts & CultureDallas Museum of ArtCREATIVE ARTS CENTER OF DALLAS INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE ARTS CENTER OF DALLAS…Southern Methodist University: $100,000 · EducationSouthern Methodist …President and Fellows of Harvard College: $100,000 · EducationPresident and Fello…LUMIN EDUCATION: $10,000 · EducationPARKLAND FOUNDATION: $125,000 · HealthPARKLAND FOUNDAT…VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS: $30,000 · HealthVISITING NURSE A…PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $20,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHO…DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC: $25,000 · Environment
Other$475,000Arts & Culture$320,000Education$210,000Health$175,000Environment$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetPARKLAND FOUNDATION: $125,000 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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% 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, 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.
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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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