· 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.
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 $10k10 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $202k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM | $101,500 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| KIDS ON STAGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART | $20,000 |
| BISHOP WALKER SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| LIBRARY OF CONGRESS | $20,000 |
| ST PETER'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $15,000 |
| WASHINGTON WINTER SHOW | $5,000 |
| KING'S DAUGHTERS' SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| THOMAS COLLEGE | $3,500 |
| EDUCATIONAL THEATRE COMPANY | $2,500 |
| WENDT CENTER FOR LOSS & HEALING | $2,000 |
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK | $1,500 |
| TUDOR PLACE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
49 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Vanderbilt University7× · 2018–2024 · $190k · revenue +65%
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION4× · 2019–2024 · $116k · revenue +19%- TATHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND5× · 2018–2022 · $115k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- SCST COLUMBA'S EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $30k
- FOFRIENDS OF HIGH LINEone grant, 2019 · $25k
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +21%
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.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Washington college challenges and inspires emerging citizen leaders to discover lives of purpose and passion.core valueswe share these values of our founding patron, george washington: integrity, determination, curiosity, civility,…
To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.
Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.
The mission of the school is to provide outstanding legal education in a collegial and supportive environment with attention to newly emerging areas of law, particularly those related to technological development, globalization and the…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Bullis school provides a student-centered balanced experience in academics, arts, athletics and community service. bullis uniquely prepares all students to become caring citizens and creative, critical thinkers who will thrive in…
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
How this is measured
44 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. 44 of the 76 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 Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds Washington Winter Show Inc ↗
- Who funds Belmont University ↗
- Who funds THOMAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Madeira School ↗
- Who funds Jubilee Jumpstart ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds TUDOR PLACE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Westminster School Inc ↗
- Who funds WOODLEY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Citizens Association of Georgetown ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds DC SCORES ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DISTRICT ALLIANCE FOR SAFE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds THE FATHER MCKENNA CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds THE ELLINGTON FUND ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Porter Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Porter Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Old Sturbridge Inc: 4% of income from government
- Williams College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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