Washington, D.C. · Private foundation
Porter Family Charitable 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.
- $329k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2024
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $101,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 36
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations Porter Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 17 | $329k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $224k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $200k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $220k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $254k | 32% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $258k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 36 | $275k | 56% |
| FY2017 | 27 | $299k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation of the D of C | $265,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Vanderbilt University | $190,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Smithsonian Institution | $116,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | $115,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Jubilee Housing Inc | $110,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Convention of P E Church of the Diocese of Washington | $72,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Friends of the Library of Congress | $70,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Washington Winter Show Inc | $48,000 | 7 | 11% |
| Belmont University | $42,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Thomas College | $40,500 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($556k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Porter Family Charitable 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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · United Way of the National Capital Area · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Thomas Rutherfoord Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Heart Sing · Sachiko Kuno Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Porter Family Charitable Foundation with peer funders
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About Porter Family Charitable Foundation
- How much does Porter Family Charitable Foundation give?
- Porter Family Charitable Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $329,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 36 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Porter Family Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (45%), Arts & Culture (19%), Religion (11%).
- Who are Porter Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation of the D of C ($266k), Vanderbilt University ($190k), Smithsonian Institution ($116k).
- Does Porter Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Porter Family Charitable 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 Porter Family Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, Clark-Winchcole Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation.
- Where is Porter Family Charitable Foundation based?
- Porter Family Charitable Foundation is based in DC.
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