California · Private foundation
Porteous 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.
- $155k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $108,545
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Porteous Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | $155k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $147k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $127k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $163k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $147k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $144k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $132k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $142k | 29% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kidworks Community Development Corp | $45,700 | 7 | 0% |
| Union Rescue Mission | $28,500 | 4 | 0% |
| The Surfrider Foundation | $23,950 | 6 | 0% |
| Sacramento Jazz Education Foundation | $12,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Greenhouse Scholars | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| F C Cancer Foundation A California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corp | $7,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Pets for Vets Inc | $7,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Revert Foundation Inc | $7,000 | 7 | 3% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Girls Who Code Inc | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Porteous Family Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: AbbVie Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Porteous Family Foundation
- How much does Porteous Family Foundation give?
- Porteous Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $154,545 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Porteous Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (60%), Religion (25%), Youth Development (4%).
- Who are Porteous Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Kidworks Community Development Corp ($46k), Union Rescue Mission ($29k), The Surfrider Foundation ($24k).
- Does Porteous Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Porteous 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 Porteous Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AbbVie Foundation, Paypal Charitable Giving Fund, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.
- Where is Porteous Family Foundation based?
- Porteous Family Foundation is based in CA.
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