Delaware · Private foundation
The Mark E Pollack 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.
- $190k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $70,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 29
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations The Mark E Pollack Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $170k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $98k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $151k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $200k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $145k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $104k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $204k | 24% |
| FY2018 | 29 | $341k | 66% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Village School Inc | $342,830 | 8 | 1% |
| The Rape Foundation | $218,500 | 4 | 2% |
| People for the American Way Foundation | $153,971 | 6 | 1% |
| Vanderbilt University | $140,000 | 5 | 0% |
| International Documentary Foundation Inc | $70,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Independent School Alliance for Minority Affairs | $53,100 | 3 | 3% |
| Kcrw Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Marlene F Landy Cancer Foundation | $50,000 | 7 | 12% |
| Sharewell | $40,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Ballet Hispanico of New York Inc | $40,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 78 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($24k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Mark E Pollack Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Lear Family Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · The California Endowment · The J Paul Getty Trust · The James Irvine Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation
How this is measured
About The Mark E Pollack Foundation
- How much does The Mark E Pollack Foundation give?
- The Mark E Pollack Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $190,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Mark E Pollack Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (38%), Arts & Culture (22%), Crime & Legal (17%).
- Who are The Mark E Pollack Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Village School Inc ($343k), The Rape Foundation ($219k), People for the American Way Foundation ($154k).
- Does The Mark E Pollack Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Mark E Pollack Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Mark E Pollack Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Annenberg Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation.
- Where is The Mark E Pollack Foundation based?
- The Mark E Pollack Foundation is based in DE.
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