· Private foundation
Po Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Assistenance Leaue of South Bay | $20,000 |
| Holy Trinty School | $10,000 |
| Mary and Joseph Retreat Center | $10,000 |
| Saint Margaret Mary School | $10,000 |
| Habitat for Hummanity | $10,000 |
| Bishop Montgomery High School | $10,000 |
| Budist Tzu Chi Foundation | $10,000 |
| American Red Cross | $5,000 |
| El Camino College | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| The Leukemia Lymphoma Society | $5,000 |
| Doctors without Borders | $5,000 |
| Mercy Ships | $5,000 |
| Unicef | $2,000 |
| Smile Train | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against -15% for those funded once.
39 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Mercy Ships International7× · 2017–2023 · $39k · revenue +251%- IPINTERNATIONAL PRIMATE PROTECTION LEAGUE5× · 2018–2024 · $33k · revenue +73%
- ALAssistance League of San Pedro-South Bay3× · 2019–2021 · $30k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- HTHoly Trinity Church Music Developone grant, 2019 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $6k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
Usp's mission is to improve global health through public standards and related programs that help ensure the quality, safety, and benefit of medicines and foods.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
We save children's lives by transforming pediatric heart care in underserved parts of the world.
Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.
To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
We support, through philanthropic efforts, the improvement of urological care globally by funding research, clinical education, patient education, and humanitarian programs.
How this is measured
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 52 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL PRIMATE PROTECTION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Assistance League of San Pedro-South Bay ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds EL CAMINO COMMUNITY COLLEGE District Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Po Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Po Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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