Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
POLIGON EDUCATION FUND
POLIGON EDUCATION FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,223 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($26,400). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $32k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $54k
- Net assets
- $6k
What Poligon Education Fund does
Mission
Poligon Education Fund (Poligon) is a national, non-profit organization that launched in January 2017 to increase American Muslim participation on Capitol Hill. Poligon seeks to amplify Muslim voices in Congress in two ways:(1) training the community on how to engage with their elected officials and educating them about the policies that impact them educating and (2) advocating with policymakers to promote positive policy change on issues such as civil rights, Islamophobia, and social, racial, and economic justice.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Poligon's skilled trainers provide a general overview of Congress, the advocacy process, and how to participate in office visits, town hall meetings, and phone calls with Members and/or their staff. Attendees, who vary in age and political experience, then practice the skills they learned through live simulations and receive immediate feedback on their performance. In addition to trainings, Poligon provides constituents with a myriad of educational resources and content. Hill Happenings, our weekly newsletter with headlines from Congress, reaches over 700 people. Our audience also receives a variety of other resources including: Action Alerts, or directions to contact Members of Congress on specific issues, as needed; policy guides and briefs explaining legislation and its impact; and step-by-step guides on advocacy. Additionally Poligon launched a COVID Policy Update Center and informational animated video as a response to the Coronavirus crisis to ensure our constituents are aware of legislation that impacts our community. These resources are published on our website and social media, and are available to the general public. In the future, we aim to also engage in special…
$0 spentof which $32,770 as grants
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $85k to $188k (+120%).
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 POLIGON EDUCATION FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $11k → $453.
5 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of POLIGON EDUCATION FUND’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.
How concentrated its funding is
POLIGON EDUCATION FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund POLIGON EDUCATION FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 69% · 2022 100% · 2023 88% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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
99% of POLIGON EDUCATION FUND's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $400 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $54k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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
POLIGON EDUCATION FUND's revenue fell 51% between 2020 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,279 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like POLIGON EDUCATION FUND
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In Washington, D.C.
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 POLIGON EDUCATION FUND: 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 POLIGON EDUCATION FUND?
- POLIGON EDUCATION FUND (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,223 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($26,400). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does POLIGON EDUCATION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $54,223 in grants to POLIGON EDUCATION FUND, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of POLIGON EDUCATION FUND?
- TIDES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $26,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like POLIGON EDUCATION FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2020–2023), and the filings of 6 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