· Private foundation
The Polasek Family Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k11 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $202k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sisters of Mary Morning Star | $50,000 |
| Shepard them All | $35,000 |
| Mobile Loaves & Fishes | $30,000 |
| Relevant Radio | $26,200 |
| Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish | $21,000 |
| Red-c Apostolate | $17,000 |
| St Martin's Church | $16,000 |
| FOCUS | $15,000 |
| St Vincent DePaul | $15,000 |
| St Anthoney's Chapel Fund | $15,000 |
| Society of St Vincent De Paul | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| Care Net Pregnancy Center | $3,003 |
| EWTN | $3,000 |
| K of C Charities | $2,700 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 76% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- IHIMMACULATE HEART MEDIA INC2× · 2021–2023 · $28k · revenue -31%
- SMSt Martin's Church2× · 2022–2023 · $21k
- SVSt Vincent DePaul2× · 2022–2023 · $20k
Funded once
- HFHoly Family Schoolone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue 0%
- DODiocese of Austin-CSAone grant, 2022 · $11k
- SASt Anthony of Padua Churchone grant, 2022 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Operation of a NCE Catholic Radio Station
Keep the faith is a catholic lay apostolate devoted to assist in the dissemanation of good catholic doctrine
To procure and deliver bold, authentically catholic radio programming for listeners across west michigan.
To inform, instruct and inspire people through the media about the sacred scriptures and teachings of the roman catholic church
Ave Maria Communications (AMC)employs radio, internet and other media to offer news, analysis, teaching, devotion and music to demonstrate Catholic values.
Publish catholic books in support of eternal word television network, inc.
Santa fe communications, inc., embracing and proclaiming judeo-christian values from a catholic perspective, produces and markets quality electronic media designed to enrich people's lives through the renewal, reawakening and support of…
Iowa Catholic Radio is dedicated to providing the best in Catholic teaching, news, and inspiration. From World Youth Day to the Iowa State Fair, from Dowling Catholic to your local parish. Our mission is to save souls and to proclaim the…
The Organizations primary exempt purpose is to faithfully broadcast the message of Jesus Christ through the medium of radio. The programming will enlighten and educate listeners to the depth and richness of the Catholic Faith.
Operation of faith based non commercial radio stations to produce religious programming for syndication and free distribution to teach the catholic faith
Catholics for Catholics is fighting to bring the Catholic faith back into the public square through rosary rallies, media, political action and more!
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Immaculate Heart Media Inc and the most unlike its peers is Red-C Apostolate. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 29 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SHEPHERD THEM ALL INC ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds Holy Family School ↗
- Who funds IMMACULATE HEART MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds Red-C Apostolate ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESAN COUNCIL OF AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds 40 DAYS FOR LIFE ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile 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 Polasek Family 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.
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.