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.

The Muriel Pollia Foundation

The Muriel Pollia Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$175k

Largest

01What it funds

0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$1.0MArts & Culture$920kCivil Rights$577kCommunity Improvement$266kFood & Nutrition$177kReligion$161kHuman Services$161kEnvironment$80kOther$0

02FY2025 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k31 grants · $104k
$10k–50k17 grants · $323k
$50k–250k6 grants · $528k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$12M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY	$175,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY	$100,000
LIBRARY FOUNDATION	$85,000
NEW YORK LIVE ARTS	$60,000
HUMANITAS	$55,000
HOUSTON FOOD BANK	$53,000
GOODMAN THEATRE	$45,000
THE ROTHKO CHAPEL	$25,000
INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS	$25,000
FORWARD TOGETHER WISCONSIN	$25,000
Individual grant recipient	$25,000
THE DOLORES HUERTA FOUNDATION	$22,000
HOLLYWOOD HIGH SCHOOL	$20,500
FALLEN FRUIT-FULCRUM ARTS	$20,000
NEW GEORGIA PROJECT	$20,000

02The need

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 (FY21–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.3M · 50 repeat orgs$429k to everyone else

50 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.3M

$308k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%

+9%

Still filing today

66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

Vanderbilt University
6× · 2020–2025 · $408k · revenue +65%
NY
NEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC
5× · 2021–2025 · $263k · revenue +36%
DOLORES C HUERTA FOUNDATION
6× · 2020–2025 · $231k · revenue +10%

Funded once

LD
LIVING DESERT THEgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue +100%
AC
ART COUNCIL INC
one grant, 2021 · $50k
UO
UNIVERSITY OF LA VERNE
one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue -5%

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.

New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture

Kadist Collection Manager Inc

Arts & Culture

Artpace Inc (Audit)

Artpace san antonio is a nonprofit residency program which supports texas, national, and international artists in the creation of new art. see schedule o for continuation.

Arts & Culture

Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture

Via Art Fund Inc

Via art fund is a nonprofit organization where art patrons join forces as partners in a new model of philanthropy to support visionary initiatives in art.

Arts & Culture

California Institute of Contemporary Art

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Berggruen Institute

Education

Artists Space Inc

A contemporary art space that provides direct support to artists through exhibition opportunities, live commissions, and public programs. in recent years, the exhibition program has grown to present six major exhibitions per year…

Arts & Culture

Counterpublic

Counterpublic is a triennial exhibition reimaginging the possibilities of art in public life.

Arts & Culture

White Columns Inc

White columns identifies significant emerging and under-represented visual artists and encourages their creative and professional development through the presentation of group and solo exhibitions, an online curated artists registry, and…

Arts & Culture

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture

The Sculpture Center Inc

See schedule osculpturecenter leads the conversation on contemporary art by supporting artistic innovation and independent thought highlighting sculpture's specific potential to change the way we engage with the world. positioning artists'…

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Foundation for the Arts Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ted Foundation Inc. 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

66 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. 66 of the 98 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

66/66

Grantees still filing

33/66

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,870,000Arts & Culture$749,000Education$580,500Community Improvement$251,700Religion$145,000Environment$60,000Civil Rights$40,000

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

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.

The Andrew W Mellon FoundationNY30.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Muriel Pollia Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Muriel Pollia Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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