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Polish American Congress Charitable Foundation
Polish American Congress Charitable Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,394 to it, the largest being POLISH ARMY VETERANS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC POST 90 CHICAGO ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Polish American Congress Charitable Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,516 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,516 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Ben & Mary Doskocil Family Foundatioshared funders
- Suzanne Sloat & Ray Okonski Fdnportfolio match
- Ukrainian American Community (Uac) Foundation Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
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.
25% of Polish American Congress Charitable Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $280 → $37.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 Polish American Congress Charitable 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.
How concentrated its funding is
Polish American Congress Charitable Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 Polish American Congress Charitable Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 89% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
98% of Polish American Congress Charitable Foundation's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $144 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- The Ben & Mary Doskocil Family Foundatioshared fundersTX · backs 11 organizations that share your funders
- Suzanne Sloat & Ray Okonski Fdnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ukrainian American Community (Uac) Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Feed My Hungry Childrenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Heritage Foundation of First Security Federal Savings Bank Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Polish Supplementary School Council of America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- La Speranza Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- W Moreland & Ruth U Ernst Charportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Maria Hulai Lion Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The 3000 Clubportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jay & Hadasa Pomrenze Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Andoni Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Polish American Congress Charitable Foundation
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
26%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Polish American Congress Charitable 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Polish American Congress Charitable Foundation?
- Polish American Congress Charitable Foundation (Illinois) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,394 to it, the largest being POLISH ARMY VETERANS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC POST 90 CHICAGO ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Polish American Congress Charitable Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $15,394 in grants to Polish American Congress Charitable Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Polish American Congress Charitable Foundation?
- POLISH ARMY VETERANS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC POST 90 CHICAGO is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Polish American Congress Charitable 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing