California · Nonprofit
Pollen Initiative
Pollen Initiative (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $347,000 to it, the largest being REVA AND DAVID LOGAN FOUNDATION ($125,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Pollen Initiative receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $347k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- New York Women's Foundation Incshared funders
- Alternative Newsweekly Foundationportfolio match
- The Int'L Center for Journalists Incportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 Pollen Initiative’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
Pollen Initiative leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
51% 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 Pollen Initiative.
“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
Pollen Initiative draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 9 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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. Your 11 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- New York Women's Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 62 organizations that share your funders
- Alternative Newsweekly Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Int'L Center for Journalists Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fund for Investigative Journalism Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ambos Mundosportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Local Independent Online News Publishers Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alcibie Alliance Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Massie Family Charitable Trust 1 Michael N Newmark Co-Trusteeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Groundtruth Project Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Adamma Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Women's Media Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Tesuque Foundation Incportfolio 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 Pollen Initiative
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Pollen Initiative: 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 Pollen Initiative?
- Pollen Initiative (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $347,000 to it, the largest being REVA AND DAVID LOGAN FOUNDATION ($125,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Pollen Initiative have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $347,000 in grants to Pollen Initiative, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Pollen Initiative?
- REVA AND DAVID LOGAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Pollen Initiative find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 11funders 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