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The Pohly Family 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.

$127k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2025
21
Organizations funded FY2024
29%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,250
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
18 to 37
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$2.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 29% of the organizations The Pohly Family 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; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationRecreation & SportsOther
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
FY2025still arriving18$107k6%
FY202421$80k29%
FY202324$81k38%
FY202218$67k11%
FY202129$61k17%
FY202033$60k24%
FY201930$69k23%
FY201837$66k43%
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$276kHuman Services$229kPhilanthropy$116kHealth$31kReligion$23kRecreation & Sports$20kInternational$20kArts & Culture$19kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MD
AZ
DC
OK
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 49 grantees
All grantees of The Pohly Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Harlem Children's Zone Inc$165,50090%
(914) Cares Inc$64,53881%
Chappaqua School Foundation Inc$37,59072%
Robin Hood Foundation$25,00040%
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc$23,90080%
Jewish Community Centers Association of North America$20,00050%
Horace Greeley Scholarship Fund$17,67591%
New York City Police Foundation Inc$15,00010%
Backyard Sports Cares Inc$13,25051%
Devils Youth Foundation Inc$11,25740%
Chappaqua Volunteer Ambulance Corp Inc$7,50080%
Friends of United Hatzalah Inc$7,10020%
New York Pops Inc$5,00020%
Mount Kisco Child Care Center$4,51050%
A Cure in Our Lifetime Inc$4,25080%
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc$4,15050%
Neighbors Link Corp$4,00050%
New Beginnings of Westchester Inc$3,75052%
Lawyers for Children Inc$2,50030%
Boys & Girls Club of Northern Westchester$2,50050%
Child Care Council of Westchester Inc$2,00020%
Children's Medical Fund of New York$1,75010%
Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism Inc$1,51220%
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center$1,30010%
Northern Westchester Hospital Association$1,25020%
The Thomas M Brennan Memorial Foundation Inc$1,03130%
The Acceleration Project Inc$77020%
Hackers for Hope Inc$75010%
Jake Reish Memorial Foundation Inc$75022%
The Fuller Center for Housing of Greater New York City Inc$75010%
Metropolitan Golf Association Foundation$6001n/a
The Ironman Foundation Inc$50710%
The Children's Aid Society$50010%
Horace Greeley Sports Boosters Inc$50010%
March of Dimes Inc$5001n/a
Harlem Educational Activities Fund Inc$50010%
Charley's Fund Inc$42940%
MVP Basketball Camps Inc$40010%
Worldwide Orphans Foundation$30530%
Westchester Jewish Community Services Inc$26010%
Making Headway Foundation Inc$25710%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$25010%
Bronx Lacrosse Inc Co Ota$20820%
Ronald McDonald House of New York Inc$20520%
Ossining Children's Center Inc$15510%
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation$1041n/a
Project Purple Inc$10010%
Maccabi USA Inc$7410%
Direct Relief$5010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($197k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Pohly Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHarlem Children's Zone Inc: $165,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budget(914) Cares Inc: $64,538 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetChappaqua School Foundation Inc: $37,590 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetRobin Hood Foundation: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc: $23,900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Community Centers Association of North America: $20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHorace Greeley Scholarship Fund: $17,675 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetNew York City Police Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBackyard Sports Cares Inc: $13,250 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetDevils Youth Foundation Inc: $11,257 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetChappaqua Volunteer Ambulance Corp Inc: $7,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetFriends of United Hatzalah Inc: $7,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Pops Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMount Kisco Child Care Center: $4,510 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetA Cure in Our Lifetime Inc: $4,250 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCrohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc: $4,150 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNeighbors Link Corp: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNew Beginnings of Westchester Inc: $3,750 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetLawyers for Children Inc: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Northern Westchester: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChild Care Council of Westchester Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Medical Fund of New York: $1,750 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFoundation to Combat Anti-Semitism Inc: $1,512 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: $1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Westchester Hospital Association: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Thomas M Brennan Memorial Foundation Inc: $1,031 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Acceleration Project Inc: $770 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHackers for Hope Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJake Reish Memorial Foundation Inc: $750 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetThe Fuller Center for Housing of Greater New York City Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Ironman Foundation Inc: $507 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Aid Society: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHorace Greeley Sports Boosters Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHarlem Educational Activities Fund Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharley's Fund Inc: $429 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMVP Basketball Camps Inc: $400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWorldwide Orphans Foundation: $305 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWestchester Jewish Community Services Inc: $260 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaking Headway Foundation Inc: $257 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBronx Lacrosse Inc Co Ota: $208 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRonald McDonald House of New York Inc: $205 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOssining Children's Center Inc: $155 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Purple Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaccabi USA Inc: $74 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDirect Relief: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 46.

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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.

Jewish Communal FundNY23.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Frieder Family Foundation · Harold E Hirsch Foundationinc · St Faith's House Foundation · The Thomas and Agnes Carvel Foundation · Pcsb Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Barbara and Michael Satow Family Foundation · Leventhal Family Charitable Foundation · Peckham Family Foundation · Viking Global Foundation Inc

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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How do I get to The Pohly Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Pohly Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Pohly Family Foundation

How much does The Pohly Family Foundation give?
The Pohly Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $126,869 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Pohly Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (32%), Human Services (26%), Philanthropy (13%).
Who are The Pohly Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Harlem Children's Zone Inc ($166k), (914) Cares Inc ($65k), Chappaqua School Foundation Inc ($38k).
Does The Pohly Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Pohly Family 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 Pohly Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Frieder Family Foundation.
Where is The Pohly Family Foundation based?
The Pohly Family Foundation is based in CT.

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 100 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-PF 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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