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The Polo Club Foundation Inc

Provide grants to other 501c3 tax-exempt organizations whose missions align with our focus, including but not limited to education, economics, health, and social services

$191k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$56k
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, FY2024 to 2025.

Health$88kEducation$76kFood & Nutrition$46kHuman Services$20k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $161,723, the rows itemized in this filing. The $191,033 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $29,310 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–50k5 grants · $106k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $56k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$383k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE GEORGE SNOW FOUNDATION$56,091
MEALS OF HOPE INC$25,632
THE SOUP KITCHEN INC$20,000
CHAMPIONS EMPOWERING CHAMPIONS$20,000
WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND$20,000
RUTH AND NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES$20,000
02The need
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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 (FY24–25, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHASIN A DREAM: $20k → 11%WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND: $20k → 11%WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND: $20k → 11%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

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
Feeding South Florida Inc

Feeding south florida's mission is to end hunger in south florida by providing immediate access to nutritious food, leading hunger and poverty advocacy efforts, and transforming lives through innovative programming and education.

Food & Nutrition
2
The Assistance Fund Inc

To help insured people with life-changing diseases overcome the financial barriers preventing them from accessing treatment.

Health
3
Chances & Changes Inc

To operate residential and non-residential programs for victims of domestic violence.

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4
Jewish Family Services of Greater Orlando Inc

Jewish family services of greater orlando (jfs orlando) provides services to stabilize individuals and families in crisis and enhances the quality of life across generations to all members of the central florida community. annually, our…

Human Services
5
Cares of Farmington Hills Inc

To provide comprehensive support services for individuals and families that are in need of everyday necessities due to insufficient financial resources or family instabilty. c.a.r.e.s. will offer food, clothing, job education and training…

Food & Nutrition
6
Deliver the Dream Inc

A retreat program that enables families who are experiencing serious illness or crisis to regain strength, mend spirits and just be families and kids again.

Health
7
Snowline Health

To bring peace and dignity through life's transitions by providing comfort, care, and support to people in need.

Human Services
8
Hope Helps Inc

To prevent and reduce hunger and homelessness in central florida by equipping individuals and families to become self-sufficient through housing, outreach, prevention, and education.

Human Services
9
Survivors Inc

Survivor's ince. provides responsive, comprehensive, confidential and client driven and client focused services to those experiencing sexual abuse, domestic violence, human trafficking and stalking. the services provided include: a fully…

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10
Disabled Veterans National Foundation

The disabled veterans national foundation exists to change the lives of men and women who came home wounded or sick after defending our safety and our freedom.

Public Benefit
11
Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc

Dedicated to alleviating hunger through acquisition and distribution of food and grocery products, community education to the causes and consequences of hunger, and meaningful action on behalf of people in need of food.

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12
Feeding Dreams Inc

The mission of Feeding Dreams to combat childhood hunger and malnutrition that affect one in five children in Florida. Through grants, fundraising efforts, and school partnerships, we delivered 2.5 million highly nutritious meals to…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ruth & Norman Rales Jewish Family Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Chasin a Dream 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

8 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.

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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
2/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND INCCHASIN A DREAM FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesCHASIN A DREAM FOUNDATION INCAID TO VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesAID TO VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE INCGEORGE SNOW SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $56,091 · OtherGEORGE SNOW SCHOLARSHIP FUN…MEALS OF HOPE INC: $25,632 · Food & NutritionMEALS OF HOPE INCThe Soup Kitchen Inc: $20,000 · Food & NutritionThe Soup Kitchen IncRUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $27,899 · HealthRUTH & NORMAN…CHAMPIONS EMPOWERING CHAMPIONS INC: $20,000 · EducationCHAMPIONS…
Human Services$80,000Other$56,091Food & Nutrition$45,632Health$27,899Education$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetRUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $27,899 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS OF HOPE INC: $25,632 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHAMPIONS EMPOWERING CHAMPIONS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetCHASIN A DREAM FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetThe Soup Kitchen Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAID TO VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC ABUSE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

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

2024
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no gov · 60%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    6get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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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    How do I get to The Polo Club Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Polo Club 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 8 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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