New York · Nonprofit
POLLYLABS FOUNDATION
POLLYLABS FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $227,610 to it, the largest being UPSTART BAY AREA ($80,360). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $489k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $228k
- Net assets
- $176k
What Pollylabs Foundation does
Mission
Pollylabs works to exponentially accelerate solutions to the world's most pressing needs through the use of existing technologies.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Repurposing technology for good utilize their funding to help relaunch existing technology ventures through the foundation's unique incubation process, where they address the urgent, solvable problems and provide support in order for the technologies to achieve scale.influence: organizes events, pitch competitions, and gatherings to foster collaboration and catalyze movement in the impact innovation space. This includes participating in and presenting at conferences like socap, and publishing research insights such as the thesis on humanitarian solutions and the future scenario report.incubate: identifies and develops transformative solutions through a thesis-driven process, incubating ventures like careco and foodco. In 2023, this program involved setting up the incubation infrastructure and hiring students over the summer to support research and preparation for venture incubation.accelerate: support to early-stage, "on-thesis" ventures, focusing on diverse founders. In 2023, this program supported three existing impact ventures (aseel, re+connect, and citizen impact) through capacity support, guidance, mentorship, and network access.
$255,491 spentof which $25,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $255,491.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $50k to $180k (+258%).
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 POLLYLABS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Bar Pereg
President & executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 POLLYLABS 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
POLLYLABS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
74% 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 POLLYLABS FOUNDATION.
“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
POLLYLABS FOUNDATION draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $87k 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.
Against its field
POLLYLABS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% 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 POLLYLABS 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 POLLYLABS FOUNDATION?
- POLLYLABS FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $227,610 to it, the largest being UPSTART BAY AREA ($80,360). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does POLLYLABS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $227,610 in grants to POLLYLABS FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of POLLYLABS FOUNDATION?
- UPSTART BAY AREA is the largest funder on record, with $80,360 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like POLLYLABS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 5 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