THE POLONSKY FOUNDATION — grant history

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Latest income

£380k

Grants listed (FY2025)

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)

What changed: FY2024 → FY2025

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings we have read. A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2024	FY2025
new	Theatre for a New Audience	—	£47k
new	New York Shakespeare Festival	—	£38k
new	UNITED JEWISH ISRAEL APPEAL	—	£33k
new	The Center for Jewish History	—	£20k
new	Cambridge University Library	—	£20k
new	The WNET Group	—	£20k
new	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York	—	£19k
new	Open Book Publishers	—	£16k
up	Van Leer Jerusalem Institute	£438k	£685k
down	Friends of Bezalel Academy of Arts	£235k	£32k
down	THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA UK	£118k	£32k
down	America-Israel Cultural Foundation	£40k	£4k
not listed	Aspen Music Festival and School	£68k	—
not listed	Bibliotheque National de France	£39k	—
not listed	Victoria and Albert Museum	£35k	—
not listed	Israel Philharmonic Orchestra	£35k	—
not listed	PUSHKIN HOUSE TRUST	£34k	—
not listed	Merton College, Oxford	£20k	—
not listed	Old Vic Trust	£20k	—
not listed	Jewish Literary Foundation	£20k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount
Van Leer Jerusalem Institute	FY2025	£685k
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	FY2025	£132k
Theatre for a New Audience	FY2025	£47k
New York Shakespeare Festival	FY2025	£38k
United Jewish Israel Appeal	FY2025	£33k
Friends of Bezalel Academy of Arts	FY2025	£32k
The University of Haifa UK	FY2025	£32k
Bard College Berlin	FY2025	£25k
The Center for Jewish History	FY2025	£20k
The Royal National Theatre	FY2025	£20k
Cambridge University Library	FY2025	£20k
The WNET Group	FY2025	£20k
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York	FY2025	£19k
Open Book Publishers	FY2025	£16k
New Fund for Cinema and Television (NFCT)	FY2025	£15k
The Foundation For Jewish Heritage	FY2025	£15k
America-Israel Cultural Foundation	FY2025	£4k
Van Leer Jerusalem Institute	FY2024	£438k
Friends of Bezalel Academy of Arts	FY2024	£235k
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	FY2024	£154k
The University of Haifa UK	FY2024	£118k
Aspen Music Festival and School	FY2024	£68k
America-Israel Cultural Foundation	FY2024	£40k
Bibliotheque National de France	FY2024	£39k
Victoria and Albert Museum	FY2024	£35k
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra	FY2024	£35k
Pushkin House Trust	FY2024	£34k
Bard College Berlin	FY2024	£26k
The Royal National Theatre	FY2024	£25k
Merton College, Oxford	FY2024	£20k
Old Vic Trust	FY2024	£20k
Jewish Literary Foundation	FY2024	£20k
Foundation For Jewish Heritage	FY2024	£20k
American Trust for the British Library	FY2024	£20k
New Fund for Cinema and Television (NFCT)	FY2024	£20k
American Friends of Covent Garden	FY2024	£15k
Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies	FY2024	£15k
Pushkin House Trust	FY2023	£40k
Victoria and Albert Museum	FY2023	£35k
Bard College	FY2023	£31k
Royal National Theatre	FY2023	£30k
Van Leer Jerusalem Institute	FY2023	£24k
British Film Institute	FY2023	£23k
Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies	FY2023	£20k
Old Vic Trust	FY2023	£20k
Voltaire Foundation	FY2023	£18k
Scrum Theatre	FY2023	£18k
Classics for All	FY2023	£16k
7th Regiment Armory Conservancy	FY2023	£15k
Royal College of Music	FY2023	£15k
Consortium of European Research Libraries	FY2023	£4k
Bodleian Libraries	FY2023	£1k
Aspen Music Festival and School Consortium of European Research Classics for All	FY2022	£298k
SCTY	FY2022	£173k
University of Oxford	FY2022	£91k
University of Cambridge	FY2022	£84k
Stephen Spender	FY2022	£51k
Royal National Theatre	FY2022	£45k
Van Leer Institute	FY2022	£35k
Am-Is Cultural Foundation	FY2022	£33k
Pushkin House Trust	FY2022	£27k
Theatre for a New Audience	FY2022	£22k
Foundation for Jewish Heritage	FY2022	£18k
Old Vic Trust	FY2022	£17k
Oxford Centre for Jewish and Hebrew Studies	FY2022	£15k
UCL Development Fund	FY2022	£15k
Other grants to institutions	FY2022	£13k
The Rhodes Trust	FY2022	£8k
HUJI - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	FY2022	£5k
Friends of Bezalel Academy of Arts	FY2022	£5k
Royal College of Music	FY2022	£3k

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.