THE POLONSKY FOUNDATION — grant history

Registered charity 291143 · filings on the Charity Commission register

Latest income
£380k
Grants listed (FY2025)
17
Listed grants total
£1.2m
Accounts grants total
£1.2m

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded
  • Education/training (9 grantees)
  • Arts/culture/heritage/science (7 grantees)
  • Environment/conservation/heritage (2 grantees)
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty (1 grantee)
  • General Charitable Purposes (1 grantee)
  • Religious Activities (1 grantee)
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives (1 grantee)
Where grantees operate
  • Throughout England And Wales (7 grantees)
  • Northern Ireland (3 grantees)
  • Scotland (3 grantees)
  • Israel (2 grantees)
  • Germany (2 grantees)
  • Kensington And Chelsea (1 grantee)
  • Netherlands (1 grantee)
  • Poland (1 grantee)
  • Slovakia (1 grantee)
  • Spain (1 grantee)

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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RecipientYearAmountPurpose
Van Leer Jerusalem InstituteFY2025£685k
The Hebrew University of JerusalemFY2025£132k
Theatre for a New AudienceFY2025£47k
New York Shakespeare FestivalFY2025£38k
United Jewish Israel AppealFY2025£33k
Friends of Bezalel Academy of ArtsFY2025£32k
The University of Haifa UKFY2025£32k
Bard College BerlinFY2025£25k
The Center for Jewish HistoryFY2025£20k
The Royal National TheatreFY2025£20k
Cambridge University LibraryFY2025£20k
The WNET GroupFY2025£20k
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkFY2025£19k
Open Book PublishersFY2025£16k
New Fund for Cinema and Television (NFCT)FY2025£15k
The Foundation For Jewish HeritageFY2025£15k
America-Israel Cultural FoundationFY2025£4k
Van Leer Jerusalem InstituteFY2024£438k
Friends of Bezalel Academy of ArtsFY2024£235k
The Hebrew University of JerusalemFY2024£154k
The University of Haifa UKFY2024£118k
Aspen Music Festival and SchoolFY2024£68k
America-Israel Cultural FoundationFY2024£40k
Bibliotheque National de FranceFY2024£39k
Victoria and Albert MuseumFY2024£35k
Israel Philharmonic OrchestraFY2024£35k
Pushkin House TrustFY2024£34k
Bard College BerlinFY2024£26k
The Royal National TheatreFY2024£25k
Merton College, OxfordFY2024£20k
Old Vic TrustFY2024£20k
Jewish Literary FoundationFY2024£20k
Foundation For Jewish HeritageFY2024£20k
American Trust for the British LibraryFY2024£20k
New Fund for Cinema and Television (NFCT)FY2024£20k
American Friends of Covent GardenFY2024£15k
Society for the Promotion of Roman StudiesFY2024£15k
Pushkin House TrustFY2023£40k
Victoria and Albert MuseumFY2023£35k
Bard CollegeFY2023£31k
Royal National TheatreFY2023£30k
Van Leer Jerusalem InstituteFY2023£24k
British Film InstituteFY2023£23k
Society for the Promotion of Roman StudiesFY2023£20k
Old Vic TrustFY2023£20k
Voltaire FoundationFY2023£18k
Scrum TheatreFY2023£18k
Classics for AllFY2023£16k
7th Regiment Armory ConservancyFY2023£15k
Royal College of MusicFY2023£15k
Consortium of European Research LibrariesFY2023£4k
Bodleian LibrariesFY2023£1k

About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (listed sum 1173777 vs reference 1224496 (4.1% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder and want a correction, contact us.