Illinois · Nonprofit
JODI POLIKOV MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
JODI POLIKOV MEMORIAL FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100 to it, the largest being LEON AND SHARON KAUFMAN FOUNDATION ($100). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $100
- Net assets
- $55k
What Jodi Polikov Memorial Foundation does
Mission
To help qualified special education students pursue their college education by means of awarding scholorships.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Providing to deserving special education students a $ 3,500 scholorship to be utilized by them to further support their college education in the same field as the individual for which the foundation was formed. Three high school graduating students are chosen each year to receive this scholorship.current year scholorship winners:joey harriskyuri bahnalexandra jackson
$12,000 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $12,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $35k to $44k (+26%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of JODI POLIKOV MEMORIAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Lindsey Berman
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of JODI POLIKOV MEMORIAL FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of JODI POLIKOV MEMORIAL FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
JODI POLIKOV MEMORIAL FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like JODI POLIKOV MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JODI POLIKOV MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JODI POLIKOV MEMORIAL FOUNDATION?
- JODI POLIKOV MEMORIAL FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100 to it, the largest being LEON AND SHARON KAUFMAN FOUNDATION ($100). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JODI POLIKOV MEMORIAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $100 in grants to JODI POLIKOV MEMORIAL FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of JODI POLIKOV MEMORIAL FOUNDATION?
- LEON AND SHARON KAUFMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JODI POLIKOV MEMORIAL FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing