· Private foundation
The Polinger-Cohen Charitable 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WRRAP | $3,000 |
| ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $3,000 |
| VIDIOTS FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $3,000 |
| JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE | $3,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $2,500 |
| THE ROYAL WAY | $2,000 |
| NEWH INC | $2,000 |
| BEIT T'SHUVAH | $1,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $1,500 |
| KCRW | $1,500 |
| THE PEOPLE CONCERN | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 15% of The Polinger-Cohen Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 73% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 62%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +98% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BTBeit T'Shuvah9× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +57%
- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC7× · 2018–2025 · $20k · revenue +23%
- VFVIDIOTS FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $18k · revenue +845%
Funded once
- FFFAIR FIGHT ACTION INCone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue -79%
- TMTHE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELESone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -89%
DIRECT RELIEFgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +94%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 36 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Beit T'Shuvah ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VIDIOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds OPICA ADULT DAY PROGRAM & COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLE CONCERN ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project ↗
- Who funds FAIR FIGHT ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds HOLLYWOOD FOOD COALITION ↗
- Who funds THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST TRUST ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WATERORG ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Polinger-Cohen Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Polinger-Cohen Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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