How much did THE LEON SMITH POLK FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 77% of THE LEON SMITH POLK FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k3 grants · $16k
$10k–50k9 grants · $186k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$13M

Total assets

Largest grants

INTERNATIONAL STUDIO & CURATORIAL PROGRAM$41,448
CAMARGO FOUNDATION$35,000
The Regents of the University of Michigan$25,000
The Land with No Name Sanctuary$20,000
Independent Curators International$20,000
ARTTABLE$15,000
AAMC Foundation$10,000
LOWER EAST SIDE PRINTSHOP$10,000
River Valley Arts Collective$10,000
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts$7,500
IAIA Mueseum of Contemporary Native Arts$5,000
The Aspen Institute$3,000

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 12%. 98% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$615k · 9 repeat orgs$266k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$615k

$188k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%

+5%

Still filing today

44%

24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CulturePublic BenefitSocial ScienceOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

CF
CAMARGO FOUNDATION
4× · 2021–2024 · $110k · revenue +59%
LE
LOWER EAST SIDE PRINTSHOP
4× · 2021–2024 · $110k · revenue -36%
WB
WOODSTOCK BYRDCLIFFE GUILD
3× · 2021–2023 · $100k

Funded once

IO
INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN INDIAN ARTS
one grant, 2019 · $55k
NA
NATIVE ARTS & CULTURES
one grant, 2021 · $30k
KI
KENTLER INTL DRAWING SPACE
one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -31%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

International Contemporary Art

Arts & Culture

International Foundation for Art

Educational and research organization concerning art objects and issues.

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Berggruen Institute

Education

Kansas City Art Institute

Mission: prepare gifted students to transform the world creatively through art and design. vision: to be an innovative leader in art and design education.

Education

The Art Institute of Chicago

The Art Institute of Chicago, a not-for-profit corporation, is both a museum and an institution of higher education that exists to provide appreciation and education in visual fine arts and design.

Education

McColl Center for Art Innovation

We champion contemporary artists and spark creative experiences for positive community impact.

Arts & Culture

The Museum of Russian Art

The museum of russian art collects, preserves, exhibits, and illuminates the rich artistic tapestry of russia, past and present, through outstanding exhibitions and public programs for all audiences.

Arts & Culture

Museum of Contemporary Art

Enhance appreciation of contemporary art through education, programming and exhibitions.

Arts & Culture

Museum of Contemporary Art

Please see mission statement on form 990, page 2, part iii, line 1.

Arts & Culture

Currier Gallery of Art

Focused on art, centered in community, committed to inspire.

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The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.

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Provenance Institute for the Arts

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aamc Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Camargo 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

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

12/12

Grantees still filing

7/12

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$677,248Arts & Culture$128,100Public Benefit$73,000Social Science$2,500

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

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.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation THE LEON SMITH POLK FOUNDATION INC 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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: KENTLER INTL DRAWING SPACE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 113621398 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on KENTLER INTL DRAWING SPACE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 12% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to The Leon Smith Polk Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE LEON SMITH POLK FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Leon Smith Polk Foundation Inc?

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THE LEON SMITH POLK FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Leon Smith Polk Foundation Inc?

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