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The Polevoy Family Foundation at a glance

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The Polevoy 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.

$90k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$162kEducation$111kScience & Tech$78kArts & Culture$66kPhilanthropy$64kHuman Services$42kReligion$30kInternational$27kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k26 grants · $78k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
$2,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PAPER MILL PLAYHOUSE$12,500
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$8,000
SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN$7,000
MIT ALUMNI FUND$6,500
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GALUP$5,000
ALZHEIMERS FDN OF AMERICA$5,000
LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR$5,000
GALLUP COMMUNITY HEALTH$5,000
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH JERSEY$5,000
TEMPLE BETH TIKVAH$3,900
VISION OF CHILDREN FOUNDATION$3,000
FRIENDS OF THE IISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$2,500
THE GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION$2,500
SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES$2,500
LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION$2,000
02The need
03

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 (FY19–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $2k → 6%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY: $2k → 16%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $2k → 6%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO: $1k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY: $2k → 16%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO: $1k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY: $2k → 16%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO: $1k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY: $2k → 16%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO: $1k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY: $1k → 16%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO: $1k → 12%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $500 → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

NH
MI
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
NM
KS
TN
GA
TX
FL
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$607k · 46 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

46 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
8

Total granted

$607k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+94%

Still filing today

50%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • PM
    Paper Mill Playhouse
    9× · 2017–2025 · $62k · revenue +83%
  • AF
    ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $42k · revenue +64%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $26k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • BF
    BOTSFORD FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • SH
    SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR SHILDREN
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
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.

1
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
2
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute

We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…

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3
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
4
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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6
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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7
Highmark Health

As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.

Health
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
11
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; the most unlike its peers is Paper Mill Playhouse. 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

30 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. 30 of the 60 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
22/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE JEWISH EDUCATION WELFARE FOUNDATION: $69,250 · OtherTHE JEWISH EDUCATION WELFARE FOUNDATIONMIT ALUMNI FUND: $57,500 · OtherMIT ALUMNI FUNDUNITED JEWISH APPEAL JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH JERSEY: $45,000 · OtherUNITED JEWISH APPEAL JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH JERSEYThe Vision of Children: $26,500 · OtherThe Vision of ChildrenTEMPLE BETH TIKVAH: $22,650 · OtherTEMPLE BETH TIKVAHBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GALUP: $15,000 · OtherLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $15,000 · OtherThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $20,000 · OtherThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies+28 more: $98,600 · Other+28 moreALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $42,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S FOUN…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $26,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN…GALLUP COMMUNITY HEALTH: $15,000 · HealthGALLUP COMMUNITY…THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $9,000 · HealthTHE SHRINERS' HO…MARCH OF DIMES INC: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthPaper Mill Playhouse: $62,000 · Arts & CulturePaper Mill…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $16,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $12,000 · Human ServicesMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $8,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesHILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT: $19,200 · EducationSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $11,500 · EducationGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 · Education+2 more: $2,000 · EducationJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $10,300 · PhilanthropySHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $9,500 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $5,500 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $2,000 · PhilanthropyDIRECT RELIEF: $11,000 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $7,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $7,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $1,500 · International
Other$369,500Health$98,000Arts & Culture$62,000Human Services$42,000Education$40,700Philanthropy$27,300International$26,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPaper Mill Playhouse: $62,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $42,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Vision of Children: $26,500 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $26,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $20,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT: $19,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $16,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGALLUP COMMUNITY HEALTH: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $12,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $11,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $11,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $10,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $9,500 over 7y, 10% of budgetTHE VALERIE FUND: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $8,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDisabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $5,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN AREA LAND TRUST: $5,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBABSON COLLEGE: $1,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO UPLIFT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds Paper Mill Playhouse ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds The Vision of Children ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds The Salk Institute for Biological Studies ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds GALLUP COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE VALERIE FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds MOUNTAIN AREA LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC ↗
  • Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Paper Mill Playhouse: 9% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • Babson College: 3% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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 60 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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grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home