California · Private foundation
Porter 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.
- $23k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 9
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Porter Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 5 | $23k | 60% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $17k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $26k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $545 | 100% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $9k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $20k | 60% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $9k | 60% |
| FY2017 | 5 | $24k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Matthews Episcopal Church | $30,000 | 4 | n/a |
| PlayGroup | $22,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Town School for Boys | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Filter of Hope Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Edgewood Center for Children and Families | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Battery Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Hidden Wings | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Squashdrive | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bay Area Discovery Museum | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| San Francisco Youth Hockey Association | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 12 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Matthews Episcopal Church | $30,000 | 4 | n/a |
| PlayGroup | $22,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Town School for Boys | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Filter of Hope Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Edgewood Center for Children and Families | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Battery Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Hidden Wings | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Squashdrive | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bay Area Discovery Museum | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| San Francisco Youth Hockey Association | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Mount Olive Baptist Church | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc | $50 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($42k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Porter 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: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Porter Family Foundation
- How much does Porter Family Foundation give?
- Porter Family Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $22,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Porter Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (32%), Health (25%), Religion (24%).
- Who are Porter Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Matthews Episcopal Church ($30k), PlayGroup ($23k), Town School for Boys ($10k).
- Does Porter Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Porter 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 Porter Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, American Endowment Foundation.
- Where is Porter Family Foundation based?
- Porter Family Foundation is based in CA.
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