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The Geri & Lester Pollack Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Geri & Lester Pollack Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$71k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$365kPhilanthropy$262kPublic Benefit$148kEducation$66kReligion$65kInternational$55kSocial Science$50kCommunity Improvement$33kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$325k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL FEDERATION$50,000
THE JEWISH MUSEUM$20,000
BREAKTHROUGH TID$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–19, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $5k → 6%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION: $10k → 17%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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 17 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
15

Total granted

$1.2M
$82k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+41%

Still filing today

47%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther
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

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    6× · 2018–2025 · $260k · revenue +22%
  • TJ
    THE JEWISH MUSEUM
    4× · 2019–2025 · $78k · revenue +30%
  • AF
    American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ
    2× · 2018–2019 · $65k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • HM
    HOLOCAUST MUSEUM
    one grant, 2024 · $18k
  • NL
    NYU LANGONE HEALTH
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICAgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +38%
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
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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2
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
3
Yivo Institute for Jewish Research Inc

Yivo's mission is to study the thousand-year history of jewish life in eastern europe and russia in all its aspects: language, history, religion, folkways and material culture. yivo's archive and library preserves a significant collection…

Religion
4
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…

Arts & Culture
5
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
6
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
7
University of Judaism Foundation
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8
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
9
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust

The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.

Arts & Culture
10
National Center for Jewish Filminc

The national center for jewish film is a unique, independent nonprofit motion picture archive, distributor, resource center and exhibitor. ncjf's ongoing mission is the collection, preservation and exhibition of films with artistic and…

Arts & Culture
11
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Friends of Institute for Zionist

The organization seeks to reinforce the foundations of israel as a jewish and democratic state. it acts to promote programs to educate the israeli public on the importance of both values and to demonstrate how each contributes to and…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Birthright Israel Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Lisa Foundation. 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

18 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. 18 of the 33 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL MUSEUM: $267,500 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL MUSEUMCONFERENCE OF PRESIDENTS FUND: $147,500 · OtherCONFERENCE OF PRESIDENTS FUNDJCC ASSOCIATION: $60,000 · OtherJCC ASSOCIATIONJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL: $51,800 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCILWASHINGTON INSTITUTE: $50,000 · OtherWASHINGTON INSTITUTEIndividual grant recipient: $41,800 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJCC ASSOCATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $32,600 · Other+8 more: $54,700 · Other+8 moreUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $260,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FE…American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $65,000 · InternationalAmerican Fr…WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $50,025 · InternationalWASHINGTON …ELEM YOUTH IN DISTRESS INC: $6,100 · International+3 more: $5,000 · InternationalTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $78,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWIS…The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $10,000 · Arts & CultureThe Unite…NEW YORK HALL OF SCIENCE: $5,000 · Arts & CultureWNET: $4,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $25,000 · Civil RightsJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $10,000 · Human ServicesSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE LISA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,000 · HealthTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$705,900Philanthropy$260,000International$126,125Arts & Culture$99,000Civil Rights$25,000Human Services$15,000Health$6,000Public Safety & Disaster$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $260,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $78,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $65,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $50,025 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELEM YOUTH IN DISTRESS INC: $6,100 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LISA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNEW YORK HALL OF SCIENCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWNET: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ISRAEL STORY: $2,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL ZIONIST ORGANIZATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Geri & Lester Pollack Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Geri & Lester Pollack Family Foundation Inc. 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%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    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 33 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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