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The Politzer Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Politzer Family Foundation Inc

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.

$19k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$59kHealth$22kCrime & Legal$19kAnimals$4kHuman Services$2kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$378k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARTNERS FOR WORLD HEALTH$3,500
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$3,500
THE MARSHALL PROJECT$3,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AM$3,000
MAINE NEEDS$2,000
THE LOCKER PROJECT$1,500
IMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT$1,500
HOMELESS ANIMAL RESCUE TEAM OF MAIN$500
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 (FY17–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NEW LEASH ON LIFE USA: $3k → 7%MAINE NEEDS: $2k → 7%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$112k · 6 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
2

Total granted

$112k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+98%
+271%

Still filing today

83%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
InternationalHuman ServicesCrime & LegalHealthCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsOther
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

  • PF
    Partners for World Health
    9× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +197%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +98%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $22k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • NEW LEASH ON LIFE USAgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +271%
  • EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -45%
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
Vlp Inc

The Maine Volunteer Lawyers Project is a legal aid organization that provides free legal information, assistance, and representation to Mainers with low incomes facing civil legal issues.

Crime & Legal
2
Maine Equal Justice Partners

Maine Equal Justice is a nonprofit legal aid and economic justice organization working to increase economic security, opportunity and equity for people in Maine.

Crime & Legal
3
Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland

The Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland nurtures the connection between people and pets to advance animal welfare and improve the quality of life in our community.

Animals
4
Maine Access Points

To recognize the resiliency of people who use drugs and to work in collaboration to create access points for overdose prevention and harm reduction services in Maine.

Health
5
Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center

The Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center serves as a hub of collaboration that strengthens the immigrant community through language acquisition, economic integration and civic engagement.

Human Services
6
Maine Justice Foundation

The mission of the maine justice foundation is to sustain, promote, and partner with legal aid providers and social justice organizations to inspire and support fairness and justice in maine.

Crime & Legal
7
Maine Pretrial Services

Provide low-income defendants assistance in obtaining pretrial release and supervision.

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8
Maine Prisoner Advocacy Coalition

Our mission is to support and advocate for maines incarcerated citizens, their families and friends. our purpose is to reduce maines use of incarceration by advocating for a legal system that is ethical, humane and restorative. our vision…

Crime & Legal
9
Maine Donor Alliance Fund

To build a permanent and powerful progressive movement in Maine. We will promote a healthy, just, equitable democracy through research, engagement, and education of Maine's citizens. We will engage in democracy expansion, voter engagement,…

Education
10
Maine GearShare

To provide access to outdoor gear and know-how through a collaborative, equity-centered approach.

Recreation & Sports
11
Mali Health Organizing Project Inc

Mali Health improves maternal and child health by supporting women, communities, and the community health system to develop local solutions that ensure every mother and child has access to quality primary care. We aim to end preventable…

Community Improvement
12
Oregon Justice Network

Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project; the most unlike its peers is Homeless Animal Rescue Team of Maine Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Partners for World Health: $30,000 · InternationalPartners for World HealthMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $28,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $22,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD F…ROOT REBOUND: $15,000 · OtherROOT REBOUNDLocker Project: $1,500 · OtherLocker Project+1 more: $500 · OtherTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC: $12,500 · Community ImprovementTHE MARSHAL…KIND INC: $3,500 · Crime & LegalIMMIGRANT LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT: $1,500 · Crime & LegalNEW LEASH ON LIFE USA: $3,000 · Human ServicesMaine Needs Inc: $2,000 · Human ServicesEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $1,500 · Civil Rights
International$58,500Health$22,000Other$17,000Community Improvement$12,500Crime & Legal$5,000Human Services$5,000Civil Rights$1,500

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 budgetPartners for World Health: $30,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $28,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $22,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKIND INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLocker Project: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Maine Community Found…Gwendolen Elwell Flan…Elmina B Sewall Found…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Maine Community Foundation IncME15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Gwendolen Elwell Flanagan Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 12 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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