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THE POLONSKY FOUNDATION — grant history

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Latest income
£24.9m
Grants listed (FY2026)
22
Listed grants total
£1.3m
Accounts grants total
£1.5m

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2026 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
Where grantees operate
  • Throughout England And Wales (9 grantees)
  • Northern Ireland (4 grantees)
  • Scotland (3 grantees)
  • Germany (2 grantees)
  • Israel (2 grantees)
  • Kensington And Chelsea (1 grantee)
  • Netherlands (1 grantee)
  • Poland (1 grantee)
  • Slovakia (1 grantee)
  • Spain (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2025 → FY2026

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings that have counted grants (unverified reads are left out, so a filing whose grants are all unverified is skipped). A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

ChangeGranteeFY2025FY2026
newIsrael Museum—£97k
newCambridge Arts Theatre—£70k
newTHE NATIONAL ARCHIVES TRUST—£50k
newGratz College—£37k
newThe Shalem Foundation—£37k
newUnited Jewish Israel Appeal (for Journey to the Horizon)—£33k
newArs Dramatis (for Alexander Zeldin Theatre Company)—£28k
newRoundabout Theatre Company—£26k
upFOUNDATION FOR JEWISH HERITAGE£15k£45k
upBard College Berlin£25k£39k
upThe WNET Group£20k£30k
upAmerica-Israel Cultural Foundation£4k£13k
not listedUNITED JEWISH ISRAEL APPEAL£33k—
not listedFriends of Bezalel Academy of Arts£32k—
not listedTHE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA UK£32k—
not listedTHE ROYAL NATIONAL THEATRE£20k—
not listedCambridge University Library£20k—
not listedMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York£19k—
not listedOpen Book Publishers£16k—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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RecipientYearAmountPurpose
Van Leer Jerusalem InstituteFY2026£575k
Israel MuseumFY2026£97k
Cambridge Arts TheatreFY2026£70k
The Hebrew University of JerusalemFY2026£67k
The National Archives TrustFY2026£50k
The Foundation For Jewish HeritageFY2026£45k
Theatre for a New AudienceFY2026£45k
Bard College BerlinFY2026£39k
Gratz CollegeFY2026£37k
The Shalem FoundationFY2026£37k
United Jewish Israel Appeal (for Journey to the Horizon)FY2026£33k
New York Shakespeare FestivalFY2026£30k
The WNET GroupFY2026£30k
Ars Dramatis (for Alexander Zeldin Theatre Company)FY2026£28k
Roundabout Theatre CompanyFY2026£26k
Sinfonia Smith SquareFY2026£23k
New Fund for Cinema and Television (NFCT)FY2026£22k
Live Music NowFY2026£22k
Scrum TheatreFY2026£21k
University of KentFY2026£20k
The Center for Jewish HistoryFY2026£19k
America-Israel Cultural FoundationFY2026£13k
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
Old Vic TrustFY2024£20k
Jewish Literary FoundationFY2024£20k
Foundation For Jewish HeritageFY2024£20k
Merton College, OxfordFY2024£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
Old Vic TrustFY2023£20k
Society for the Promotion of Roman StudiesFY2023£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
Aspen Music Festival and School Consortium of European Research Classics for AllFY2022£298k
SCTYFY2022£173k
University of OxfordFY2022£91k
University of CambridgeFY2022£84k
Stephen SpenderFY2022£51k
Royal National TheatreFY2022£45k
Van Leer InstituteFY2022£35k
Am-Is Cultural FoundationFY2022£33k
Pushkin House TrustFY2022£27k
Theatre for a New AudienceFY2022£22k
Foundation for Jewish HeritageFY2022£18k
Old Vic TrustFY2022£17k
Oxford Centre for Jewish and Hebrew StudiesFY2022£15k
UCL Development FundFY2022£15k
Other grants to institutionsFY2022£13k
The Rhodes TrustFY2022£8k
Friends of Bezalel Academy of ArtsFY2022£5k
HUJI - The Hebrew University of JerusalemFY2022£5k
Royal College of MusicFY2022£3k
New York UniversityFY2021£784k
Heidelberg UniversityFY2021£599k
The Van Leer Jerusalem InstituteFY2021£550k
Aspen Music Festival and SchoolFY2021£410k
Friends of Bezalel Academy of ArtsFY2021£399k
University of OxfordFY2021£298k
WNET (Simon Schema's 'Story of the Jews and the Fate of the World' )FY2021£176k
University of CambridgeFY2021£173k
Other grants to institutionsFY2021£163k
Herzog August BibliothekFY2021£104k
The Hebrew University of JerusalemFY2021£90k
Royal College of MusicFY2021£70k
The Rhodes TrustFY2021£50k
The Old Vic TrustFY2021£45k
Am-Is Cultural FoundationFY2021£40k
Royal National TheatreFY2021£35k
Classics for AllFY2021£33k
Oxford Centre of Hebrew and Jewish StudiesFY2021£28k
British Friends of Haifa UniversityFY2021£20k
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale RomeFY2021£19k
American Friends of Tel Aviv UniversityFY2021£15k

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 1347128 vs reference 1521366 (11.5% 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 or a recipient and want a correction, email [email protected].