Oregon · Private foundation
Pontist Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $35k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,200
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 32
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $460k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Pontist Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1000 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 | 13 | $35k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $31k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $52k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $40k | 34% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $34k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $40k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literary Arts Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Profile Theatre Project | $14,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Portland Center Stage | $12,510 | 6 | 0% |
| Live Wire Radio Inc | $11,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Ninety-Nine Girlfriends | $7,850 | 5 | 0% |
| Oregon Public Broadcasting | $7,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Willamette Falls Trust | $7,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette Inc | $6,500 | 4 | 0% |
| The Circus Project | $4,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($9k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Pontist Family Foundation 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: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Meyer Memorial Trust · James F & Marion L Miller Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · Juan Young Trust · The Starseed Foundation
How this is measured
About Pontist Family Foundation
- How much does Pontist Family Foundation give?
- Pontist Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $35,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 32 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Pontist Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (77%), Health (4%), Philanthropy (3%).
- Who are Pontist Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Literary Arts Inc ($60k), National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States ($60k), Profile Theatre Project ($15k).
- Does Pontist Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Pontist Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Pontist Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, The Jackson Foundation, The Collins Foundation.
- Where is Pontist Family Foundation based?
- Pontist Family Foundation is based in OR.
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