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The Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Supporting Foundation

THE NORMAN & ELAINE POLSKY FAMILY SUPPORTING FOUNDATION wants to assist those 501(c)(3) organizations, having an annual budget under $5 million, which will help themselves to establish a polsky endowment thus encouraging them to establish other endowments. It is our belief that without endowments, they will have no future.

$50k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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100% of The Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Supporting Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

1
’20
1
’21
2
’23
0
’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2025
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$2.3M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations The Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Supporting Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’23
Community ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20232$150k100%
FY20211$200k0%
FY20201$150kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$500kHuman Services$350kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kReligion$100kPhilanthropy$100kCommunity Improvement$50k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City$350,00021%
Congregation Beth Shalom$100,0001n/a
Hadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc$50,00010%

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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About The Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Supporting Foundation

How much does The Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Supporting Foundation give?
The Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Supporting Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $50,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Supporting Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (42%), Human Services (29%), Public Safety & Disaster (8%).
Who are The Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Supporting Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City ($350k), Congregation Beth Shalom ($100k), Hadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc ($50k).
Does The Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Supporting Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Supporting Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Supporting Foundation based?
The Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Supporting Foundation is based in KS.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 5 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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