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The Polyamory Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$31k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
78%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 11
FY2022 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$35k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 78% of the organizations The Polyamory Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 75% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Crime & LegalInternationalOther
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 arriving6$31k33%
FY20249$42k78%
FY202311$50k73%
FY20226$12kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Civil Rights$39kCrime & Legal$22kArts & Culture$17kEducation$15kRecreation & Sports$10kHuman Services$10kScience & Tech$9kHealth$6kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
IN
PA
CT
CA
CO
MD
AZ
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Chosen Family Law Center Inc$22,45635%
Organization for Polyamory and Ethical Nonmonogamy$22,14745%
Modern Family Institute$10,0001n/a
Spportland Inc$5,0001n/a
Mnpoly$5,0003n/a
National Coalition for Sexual Freedom$1,0001n/a
International Planned Parenthood Federation Western Hemisphere Region$20010%

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($69k), not named here.

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About The Polyamory Foundation

How much does The Polyamory Foundation give?
The Polyamory Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $31,376 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 11 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
What does The Polyamory Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (29%), Crime & Legal (17%), Arts & Culture (12%).
Who are The Polyamory Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Chosen Family Law Center Inc ($22k), Organization for Polyamory and Ethical Nonmonogamy ($22k), Modern Family Institute ($10k).
Does The Polyamory Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 78% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Polyamory Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is The Polyamory Foundation based?
The Polyamory Foundation is based in MA.

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 23 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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