California · Private foundation
The Muriel Pollia 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.
- $955k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 54
- Grants FY2025
- 51
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $175,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 51
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 16
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
- 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 Muriel Pollia Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k 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 | 54 | $955k | 31% |
| FY2024 | 51 | $841k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 39 | $638k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $627k | 42% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $398k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $224k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| People for the American Way | $555,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Vanderbilt University | $408,000 | 6 | 0% |
| New York Live Arts Inc | $262,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Dolores C Huerta Foundation | $231,200 | 6 | 1% |
| The Houston Food Bank | $149,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Rothko Chapel | $145,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Los Angeles Unified School District | $106,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Pen American Center Inc | $90,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Living Desert The | $60,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Intersection for the Arts | $56,500 | 3 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($817k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Muriel Pollia 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: The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · The Ford Foundation · California Community Foundation · Arison Arts Foundation · Jerome Foundation Inc · The Scherman Foundation Inc · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Wilhelm Family Foundation Co Cascade Wilhelm
How this is measured
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About The Muriel Pollia Foundation
- How much does The Muriel Pollia Foundation give?
- The Muriel Pollia Foundation reported 54 grants totaling $954,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 51 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Muriel Pollia Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (27%), Arts & Culture (25%), Civil Rights (16%).
- Who are The Muriel Pollia Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: People for the American Way ($555k), Vanderbilt University ($408k), New York Live Arts Inc ($263k).
- Does The Muriel Pollia Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Muriel Pollia 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 Muriel Pollia Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Andrew W Mellon Foundation, Tides Foundation, The Annenberg Foundation.
- Where is The Muriel Pollia Foundation based?
- The Muriel Pollia Foundation is based in CA.
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