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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 FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2025.

Education$633kArts & Culture$358kCrime & Legal$281kCivil Rights$164kHealth$95kReligion$28kPhilanthropy$22kCommunity Improvement$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VILLAGE SCHOOL INC$70,000
PUBLIC COUNSEL$25,000
GIVING BACK FUND INC$20,000
THE WINDWARD SCHOOL$15,000
INDEPENDENT SCHOOL ALLIANCE FOR MINORITY AFFAIRS$10,000
FRACTURED ATLAS INC$10,000
CHANGE THE REF INC$10,000
CENTER FOR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC$5,000
CONGREGATION OR AMI$5,000
BALLET HISPANICO OF NEW YORK$5,000
JACOB JONAS THE COMPANY INC$5,000
SHAREWELL$5,000
LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES$3,000
YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN L$1,000
INSIDEOUT WRITERS INC$1,000
02The need
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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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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EASTERN CONGO INITIATIVE: $1k → 11%HOSPICE OF KONA FOUNDATION: $7k → 15%NORTH HAWAII HOSPICE INC: $7k → 15%BOTTOMLESS CLOSET: $3k → 17%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN L: $1k → 14%CHILDRENS INSTITUTE INC: $5k → 14%GOLDEN STATE OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN L: $1k → 14%GO CAMPAIGN: $4k → 14%GO CAMPAIGN: $3k → 14%GO CAMPAIGN: $3k → 14%LOS ANGELES YOUTH NETWORK LA YOUTH: $1k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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 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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 25 repeat orgs$246k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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50

Total granted

$1.4M
$202k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+21%

Still filing today

84%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther

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

  • VS
    VILLAGE SCHOOL INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $343k · revenue +178%
  • Vanderbilt University
    5× · 2017–2023 · $140k · revenue +74%
  • IS
    INDEPENDENT SCHOOL ALLIANCE FOR MINORITY AFFAIRS
    3× · 2018–2025 · $53k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • SL
    SALT LAKE CITY FILM CENTER AND ARTISTS COLLABORATI
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +148%
  • MP
    MARFA PUBLIC RADIO CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue +72%

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.

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Los Angeles Conservancy

The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.

Arts & Culture
2
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce

Chamber's mission: design and advance opportunities and solutions for a thriving regional economy that are inclusive and globally competitive. 1) advocacy - be a bold advocate for business as a driver of a strong economy that enables…

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3
Los Angeles Conservation Corps

The la conservation corps creates equitable opportunities for young people to build resilience in themselves, their communities and the environment through a program of work, education and support.

Employment
4
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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5
Los Angeles Opera Company

To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…

Arts & Culture
6
Los Angeles County Bar Association (Lacba)

Meeting the professional needs of los angeles lawyers, and improving the administration of justice.

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7
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
8
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
9
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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10
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
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California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dolores C Huerta Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Marlene F Landy Cancer Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Sports ProgramsFraternal & Sororal Organiz…Family Philanthropic Founda…School Parent-Teacher Organ…Union Member Benefit Plans
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%1%<5yr15%10%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr17%29%20–35yr11%28%35–55yr13%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%2%<5yr15%6%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr17%14%20–35yr11%59%35–55yr13%11%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/82
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,896

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

77 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 77 of the 86 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
76/77
Grantees still filing
47/77
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VILLAGE SCHOOL INC — $342,830 · OtherVILLAGE SCHOOL INCTHE RAPE FOUNDATION — $218,500 · OtherTHE RAPE FOUNDATIONKCRW FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · OtherKCRW FOUNDATION INC+30 more — $148,310 · Other+30 moreVanderbilt University — $140,000 · EducationVanderbilt Universi…INDEPENDENT SCHOOL ALLIANCE FOR MINORITY AFFAIRS — $53,100 · EducationINDEPENDENT SCHOOL …UCLA FOUNDATION — $35,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONTHE PALISADES PRESCHOOL — $20,500 · EducationTHE PALISADES PRESC…THE WINDWARD SCHOOL — $15,000 · EducationFriends of Third Street School — $11,000 · Education+6 more — $12,850 · EducationINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL DOCU…SHAREWELL — $40,000 · Arts & CultureSHAREWELLBALLET HISPANICO OF NEW YORK INC — $40,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET HISPANICO O…PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM — $35,000 · Arts & CulturePALM SPRINGS ART M…FRACTURED ATLAS INC — $25,525 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS IN…MARFA PUBLIC RADIO CORPORATION — $11,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES PERFORMANCE PRACTICE — $10,000 · Arts & CulturePalm Springs Center for Creativity — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more — $22,000 · Arts & Culture+6 morePEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION — $153,971 · Civil RightsPEOPLE FOR …CHANGE THE REF INC — $10,000 · Civil RightsCHANGE THE …+1 more — $5,000 · Civil RightsMARLENE F LANDY CANCER FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY — $15,000 · HealthThe Council on Recovery — $5,000 · Health+7 more — $10,685 · HealthPUBLIC COUNSEL — $30,000 · Crime & LegalYOUTH REPRESENT INC — $20,000 · Crime & LegalEssie Justice Group — $5,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $1,000 · Crime & LegalGo Campaign — $8,500 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF KONA FOUNDATION — $6,921 · Human ServicesNORTH HAWAII HOSPICE INC — $6,921 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesGolden State Opportunity — $2,500 · Human ServicesBOTTOMLESS CLOSET — $2,500 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles — $2,000 · Human Services+2 more — $2,000 · Human Services
Other$759,640Education$287,450Arts & Culture$273,525Civil Rights$168,971Health$80,685Crime & Legal$56,000Human Services$36,342

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVILLAGE SCHOOL INC — $342,830 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetTHE RAPE FOUNDATION — $218,500 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY FOUNDATION — $153,971 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetVanderbilt University — $140,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetINDEPENDENT SCHOOL ALLIANCE FOR MINORITY AFFAIRS — $53,100 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetMARLENE F LANDY CANCER FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetKCRW FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSHAREWELL — $40,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBALLET HISPANICO OF NEW YORK INC — $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM — $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC COUNSEL — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $25,525 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PALISADES PRESCHOOL — $20,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetYOUTH REPRESENT INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WINDWARD SCHOOL — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFriends of Third Street School — $11,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetDOLORES C HUERTA FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPEN AMERICA LOS ANGELES FKA PEN CENTER USA WEST — $10,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHANGE THE REF INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetPalm Springs Center for Creativity — $10,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetGo Campaign — $8,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTeach Democracy — $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CONTEMPORARY BALLET INC — $7,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHEAL THE BAY — $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF KONA FOUNDATION — $6,921 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORTH HAWAII HOSPICE INC — $6,921 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPALI COMMUNITY CENTER COMMITTEE — $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetHOPE-NET — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Council on Recovery — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEssie Justice Group — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLABC INSTITUTE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $4,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL AND PUBLIC ART RESOURCE CENTER — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGolden State Opportunity — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

California Community …The Annenberg Foundat…The Ahmanson Foundati…Lear Family FoundationWeingart FoundationJewish Community Foun…The Ralph M Parsons F…Liberty Hill Foundati…The California Endowm…The J Paul Getty TrustThe James Irvine Foun…The California Wellne…
California Community FoundationCA30.2× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 organization The Mark E Pollack 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
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no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Center for Childrens Advocacy Inc — 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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 86 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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