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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 FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% 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
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $54k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$6,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRACE COTTAGE FOUNDATION$500,000
SERAPHIC FIRE INC$23,890
GRAFTON FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
BRATTLEBORO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL$6,000
NEUROSCIENCE CENTERS OF FL FOUNDATION INC$5,000
WOMENS COMMUNITY CLUB OF GRAFTON VT INC$5,000
CONNECTICUT VALLEY ADDICTION RECOVERY INC$1,000
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$1,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $129k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BIGCAT RESCUE CORP: $10k → 13%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%BIGCAT RESCUE CORP: $10k → 13%SERAPHIC FIRE INC: $27k → 15%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%BIGCAT RESCUE CORP: $6k → 13%SERAPHIC FIRE INC: $24k → 15%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%BIGCAT RESCUE CORP: $3k → 13%SERAPHIC FIRE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $17k → 15%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%BIGCAT RESCUE CORP: $3k → 13%SERAPHIC FIRE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $9k → 15%BIGCAT RESCUE CORP: $2k → 13%BIGCAT RESCUE: $2k → 13%SERAPHIC FIRE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA: $5k → 15%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

VT
NH
NY
MA
OH
CA
UT
CO
AR
DC
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.
$1.8M · 26 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
12

Total granted

$1.8M
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+21%

Still filing today

58%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% 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
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterAnimalsOther
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

  • GC
    Grace Cottage Foundation
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +229%
  • SF
    SERAPHIC FIRE INC
    5× · 2018–2025 · $81k · revenue +27%
  • BM
    Brattleboro Memorial Hospital
    3× · 2021–2025 · $36k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • TW
    THE WINDHAM FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $18k · revenue +110%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $4k
  • OM
    OLIVIA MANNING FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
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
Gaston Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc

To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
2
Saratoga Care Inc

To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.

Health
3
Gaston Memorial Hospital Inc

To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
4
Bridgton Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.

Health
5
Brattleboro Retreat

Inspired by the courage of our patients, the Brattleboro Retreat is dedicated to children, adolescents and adults in their pursuit of recovery from mental illness and psychological trauma. We are committed to excellence in treatment,…

Health
6
Southwestern Vermont Health Care Corporation

To care for and comfort our patients, residents, and their loved ones and to improve the health status of the communities we serve. the purpose of the organization is also to promote and support the development and maintenance of a highly…

Health
7
The Saratoga Hospital

To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.

Health
8
Southwestern Vermont Healthcare Foundation Inc

The sole purpose of the svhc foundation shall be to engage in development and fundraising activities exclusively for the support of the southwestern vermont health care corporation and affiliates.

Health
9
Caromont Health

To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
10
Concord Hospital - Franklin

CH-Franklin is a charitable organization which exists to meet the health needs of individuals within the communities it serves.

Health
11
Windsor Hospital Corporation

Mt. ascutney hospital and health center's mission is to improve the lives of those we serve.

Health
12
Vermont Medical Society

The vermont medical society is the leading voice of physicians and physician assistants in the state and is dedicated to advancing the practice of medicine by advocating on behalf of vermonts clinicians and the patients and communities…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baptist Health Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Windham Foundation 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

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 40 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Grace Cottage Foundation: $1,369,050 · OtherGrace Cottage FoundationGRAFTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $58,000 · Other+22 more: $193,285 · Other+22 moreSERAPHIC FIRE INC: $80,963 · Human ServicesBIG CAT RESCUE CORP: $36,000 · Human ServicesHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesBrattleboro Memorial Hospital: $36,000 · HealthBaptist Health Foundation Inc: $23,500 · Health+2 more: $2,800 · HealthMontessori Children's School of Key West Inc: $14,500 · EducationTHE GRAMMAR SCHOOL INC: $10,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts College: $4,000 · EducationTHE BRICK MEETING HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyGRAFTON CARES INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $7,448 · AnimalsSARCOMA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $1,100 · Arts & CultureVERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,620,335Human Services$128,963Health$62,300Education$33,500Philanthropy$20,000Housing & Shelter$10,000Animals$7,448Arts & Culture$2,100

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 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
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 Grace Cottage Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SERAPHIC FIRE INC ↗
  • Who funds GRAFTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Brattleboro Memorial Hospital ↗
  • Who funds BIG CAT RESCUE CORP ↗
  • Who funds Baptist Health Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE BRICK MEETING HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WINDHAM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GRAFTON FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Montessori Children's School of Key West Inc ↗
  • Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds GRAFTON CARES INC ↗
  • Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
  • Who funds ASCENDIGO AUTISM SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds CASTLETON RANCH HORSE RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds SARCOMA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT VALLEY ADDICTION RECOVERY INC ↗
  • Who funds VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Windham Foundatio…Thomas M Evans Jr Fou…Ben & Jerry's Foundat…Ibm International Fou…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Vermont Symphony Orchestra Association Inc: 11% of income from government
  • The Grammar School Inc: 4% of income from government
  • The Windham Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Brattleboro Memorial Hospital: 1% of income from government
  • Seraphic Fire Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get 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
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Pollio Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Pollio Family 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 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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