Pennsylvania · Private foundation
John and Allie Lea Orton Fdn
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $75k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $11,110
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations John and Allie Lea Orton Fdn funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $75k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $70k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $60k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $66k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $42k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $44k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $46k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $60k | 25% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Main Street Theater Houston | $32,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Texas Equusearch Mounted Search and Recovery | $30,026 | 7 | 1% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Bach Society Houston | $18,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Camp For All Foundation | $16,000 | 4 | 0% |
| University of Houston Foundation | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| German-Texan Heritage Society | $15,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Magnolia City Brass Band | $14,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Bugle Boy Foundation | $13,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Writers in the Schools | $12,400 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($247k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John and Allie Lea Orton Fdn supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Alice Taylor Gray Foundation Acct #G02992 · Shell USA Company Foundation · Houston Arts Alliance · The Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About John and Allie Lea Orton Fdn
- How much does John and Allie Lea Orton Fdn give?
- John and Allie Lea Orton Fdn reported 16 grants totaling $75,110 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does John and Allie Lea Orton Fdn fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (46%), Education (21%), Religion (7%).
- Who are John and Allie Lea Orton Fdn's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Main Street Theater Houston ($33k), Texas Equusearch Mounted Search and Recovery ($30k), Samaritan's Purse ($30k).
- Does John and Allie Lea Orton Fdn fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John and Allie Lea Orton Fdn accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as John and Allie Lea Orton Fdn?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alice Taylor Gray Foundation Acct #G02992, Shell USA Company Foundation, Houston Arts Alliance.
- Where is John and Allie Lea Orton Fdn based?
- John and Allie Lea Orton Fdn is based in PA.
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