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The Polg Foundation Inc

The purposes for which the foundation is formed are to address the unmet medical needs of patiens with polg-related disorders with the goal of being able to mitigate or cure such disorders.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$315k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Health$1.1MCrime & Legal$315kScience & Tech$146kEducation$49kEnvironment$40kPublic Safety & Disaster$25k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $628,825, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,319,962 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $691,137 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $114k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
  • $250k+1 grant · $315k
$100,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$8.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Board Institute$315,000
Jeeva Clinical Trials Inc$100,000
Across Healthcare LLC$100,000
University of Miami$49,000
Individual grant recipient$39,825
Childrens Hospital of PA$25,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 40% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE BROAD INSTITUTE: $313k → 8%UNITED MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASE FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%Childrens Hospital of PA: $25k → 22%Board Institute: $315k → 17%University of Miami: $49k → 15%Across Healthcare LLC: $100k → 13%Jeeva Clinical Trials Inc: $100k → 7%THE JACKSON LABORATORY: $46k → 11%The Broad Institute: $310k → 8%United Mitochondrial Disease: $40k → 11%Childrens Hospital of PA: $13k → 22%Columbia University IMC: $25k → 17%The Broad Institute: $305k → 8%Childrens Hospital of PA: $13k → 22%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.
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 field
04the grantee network

4 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. 4 of the 10 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
1/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Broad Institute Inc: $927,500 · HealthThe Broad Institute IncUNITED MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · HealthTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $46,250 · HealthBoard Institute: $315,000 · OtherBoard InstituteAcross Healthcare LLC: $100,000 · OtherAcross Healthcare LLCJeeva Clinical Trials Inc: $100,000 · OtherJeeva Clinical Trials IncChildrens Hospital of PA: $51,524 · OtherChildrens Hospital of PAIndividual grant recipient: $39,825 · OtherIndividual grant recipientColumbia University IMC: $25,000 · OtherUniversity of Miami: $49,000 · Education
Health$1,023,750Other$631,349Education$49,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $927,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $49,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY: $46,250 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 The Broad Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNITED MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Polg Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Polg Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • The Broad Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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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Find your warmest path to The Polg Foundation Inc 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.

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 10 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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