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The Pollio 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.

$572k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
30%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$6,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$500,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 17
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$2.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 30% of the organizations The Pollio Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving9$572k22%
FY202410$251k30%
FY202317$151k29%
FY20229$343k33%
FY202114$162k21%
FY202012$136k25%
FY201914$101k21%
FY201816$92k44%
88% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.5MArts & Culture$143kEducation$46kAnimals$45kPhilanthropy$40kPublic Safety & Disaster$18kHuman Services$16kRecreation & Sports$12kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
NY
MA
OH
CA
UT
CO
AR
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 24 grantees
All grantees of The Pollio Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Grace Cottage Foundation$1,369,050913%
Seraphic Fire Inc$80,96351%
Grafton Historical Society$58,000514%
Brattleboro Memorial Hospital$36,00030%
Big Cat Rescue Corp$36,00070%
Baptist Health Foundation Inc$23,50040%
The Brick Meeting House Foundation Inc$20,000218%
The Windham Foundation Inc$18,00012%
Grafton Firefighters Association$17,91028%
Montessori Children's School of Key West Inc$14,50030%
Healthnetwork Foundation Fka Health Net Foundation Inc$12,00040%
The Grammar School Inc$10,00020%
Grafton Cares Inc$10,000524%
Womens Community Club of Grafton Vt Inc$10,0002n/a
Best Friends Animal Society$7,44850%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$5,00030%
Trustees of Tufts College$4,00020%
Ascendigo Autism Services Inc$1,80020%
Castleton Ranch Horse Rescue Inc$1,50010%
Sarcoma Foundation of America$1,10010%
Connecticut Valley Addiction Recovery Inc$1,00010%
Vermont Symphony Orchestra Association Inc$1,00010%
Grafton News$7502n/a
Grafton Improvement Association Inc$7251n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($144k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Pollio Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGrace Cottage Foundation: $1,369,050 over 9y, 13% of budgetSeraphic Fire Inc: $80,963 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetGrafton Historical Society: $58,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetBrattleboro Memorial Hospital: $36,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBig Cat Rescue Corp: $36,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetBaptist Health Foundation Inc: $23,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe Brick Meeting House Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetThe Windham Foundation Inc: $18,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGrafton Firefighters Association: $17,910 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetMontessori Children's School of Key West Inc: $14,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHealthnetwork Foundation Fka Health Net Foundation Inc: $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Grammar School Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGrafton Cares Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetBest Friends Animal Society: $7,448 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAscendigo Autism Services Inc: $1,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCastleton Ranch Horse Rescue Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSarcoma Foundation of America: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConnecticut Valley Addiction Recovery Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVermont Symphony Orchestra Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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.

The Windham Foundation IncVT22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Windham Foundation Inc · Thomas M Evans Jr Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

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About The Pollio Family Foundation Inc

How much does The Pollio Family Foundation Inc give?
The Pollio Family Foundation Inc reported 9 grants totaling $571,890 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Pollio Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (79%), Arts & Culture (8%), Education (2%).
Who are The Pollio Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Grace Cottage Foundation ($1.4M), Seraphic Fire Inc ($81k), Grafton Historical Society ($58k).
Does The Pollio Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Pollio Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Pollio Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Windham Foundation Inc, Thomas M Evans Jr Foundation, Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc.
Where is The Pollio Family Foundation Inc based?
The Pollio Family Foundation Inc is based in VT.

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 40 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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