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Porter Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$370k
Granted FY2026still arriving
44
Grants FY2026still arriving
9
States reached
$36k
Largest
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Religion$419kYouth Development$394kHealth$218kRecreation & Sports$210kInternational$110kHuman Services$86kEnvironment$51kPhilanthropy$46kOther$0
02FY2026 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k30 grants · $108k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $262k
$5,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CORPORATE CHAPLAINS OF AMERICA$36,000
STILLWATER HOSPICE$35,900
Zion Lutheran Church Decatur IN$28,265
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$22,550
YOUTH FOR CHRIST$20,500
Marine Trades Institute$20,000
SAMARITANS PURSE$20,000
THE HOPE CLINIC$14,600
Lifewise Academy$14,100
Team Rubicon$10,000
GRACE FIRST COMMUNITY CHURCH DEC$10,000
ST MARY OF THE ASSUMPTION PARRISH$10,000
Convoy of Hope$10,000
Mercy Chefs$10,000
BOYS GIRLS CLUB$9,150
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–26, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Mercy Chefs: $20k → 9%Mercy Chefs: $10k → 9%Mercy Chefs: $10k → 9%CROSSROADS COMMUNITY: $10k → 12%KATES KART: $3k → 12%KATES KART: $3k → 12%CROSSROADS COMMUNITY: $1k → 12%KATE'S KART: $1k → 12%KATE'S KART: $1k → 12%KATE'S KART: $500 → 12%Adams County Cancer Coalition: $3k → 12%ADAMS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $2k → 12%UNITED WAY OF ADAMS COUNTY: $700 → 12%UNITED WAY OF ADAMS COUNTY: $500 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
MA
IN
OH
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
TN
NC
AL
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 49 repeat orgs$392k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

49 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2026, 13 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
32

Total granted

$1.8M
$371k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
0%

Still filing today

37%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25’26
Human ServicesReligionHealthYouth DevelopmentPublic Safety & DisasterArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC
    6× · 2021–2026 · $290k · revenue +1%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    5× · 2022–2026 · $100k · revenue +40%
  • CC
    CORPORATE CHAPLAINS OF AMERICA INC
    4× · 2023–2026 · $68k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF DECATUR PARK BOARD
    one grant, 2023 · $125k
  • BH
    BELLMONT HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC DEPT
    one grant, 2023 · $60k
  • SL
    Southeastern Legal Foundation SLF
    3× · 2024–2026 · $50k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
2
American Cancer Society Inc

Improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.

Health
3
Chamber of Commerce of Harrison County

Support our members and the business environment by fostering economic and community development initiatives to improve the quality of life in harrison county.

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4
The County Chamber of Commerce

The business council of westchester's mission is to work hard to grow the economy, create jobs and build a strong business community in westchester county.

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5
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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6
United Way of Adams County Inc

To inspire, unite, and empower the people of adams county to reach their full human potential.

Philanthropy
7
Catholic Charities Bloomington Inc

Catholic Charities Bloomington is committed to enhancing the availability of quality mental health services in the communities it serves. We do this through the delivery of professional mental health education and counseling on a sliding…

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8
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
9
Advocate Health Care Network

The mission of advocate health care is to serve the health needs of individuals, families and communities through a wholistic philosophy rooted in our fundamental understanding of human beings as created in the image of god.

Health
10
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
11
United Way of East Central Iowa

Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.

Philanthropy
12
Christian Healthcare Ministries Inc

To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifewise Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 89 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
17/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH DEC: $189,500 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH DECSTILLWATER HOSPICE: $166,400 · OtherSTILLWATER HOSPICECITY OF DECATUR PARK BOARD: $125,000 · OtherCITY OF DECATUR PARK BOARDYOUTH FOR CHRIST: $78,600 · OtherGrace First Community Church: $61,000 · OtherMarine Trades Institute: $60,000 · OtherBELLMONT HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC DEPT: $60,000 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $59,550 · OtherST MARY OF THE ASSUMPTION PARRISH: $53,750 · OtherSoutheastern Legal Foundation SLF: $50,000 · Other+61 more: $580,490 · Other+61 moreJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC: $290,150 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEME…CONVOY OF HOPE: $40,000 · InternationalCONVOY OF HOPESAMARITAN'S PURSE: $100,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN…CORPORATE CHAPLAINS OF AMERICA INC: $68,000 · ReligionCORPORATE…+2 more: $9,100 · ReligionHOPE CLINIC INC: $67,100 · HealthWOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC: $17,500 · HealthMERCY CHEFS INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesCROSSROADS COMMUNITY CORP: $11,000 · Human ServicesKATE'S KART INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesADAMS COUNTY CANCER COALITION INC: $2,500 · Human Services+2 more: $2,800 · Human ServicesTEAM RUBICON INC: $40,000 · Public Safety & Disaster+1 more: $300 · Public Safety & DisasterADAMS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $28,300 · PhilanthropyTHE HOMETOWN FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,484,290International$330,150Religion$177,100Health$84,600Human Services$64,300Public Safety & Disaster$40,300Philanthropy$33,300

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC: $290,150 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATE CHAPLAINS OF AMERICA INC: $68,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE CLINIC INC: $67,100 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetMERCY CHEFS INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetADAMS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $31,800 over 6y, 16% of budgetUniversity of Indianapolis: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetADAMS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $28,300 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetDECATUR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $20,650 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetLIFEWISE INC: $19,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC: $17,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCONNOR BRITES WILDFLOWERS: $11,700 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetCROSSROADS COMMUNITY CORP: $11,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetHUMMINGBIRD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetKATE'S KART INC: $8,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $6,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetARTISTS IN CHRISTIAN TESTIMONY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOMETOWN FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetC & C BIBLE FELLOWSHIP INC: $4,100 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetADAMS COUNTY CANCER COALITION INC: $2,500 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ADAMS COUNTY INDIANA INC: $1,200 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBERNE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $1,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetANTHONY WAYNE AREA COUNCIL INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FIRE SAFETY COUNCIL INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds CORPORATE CHAPLAINS OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds MERCY CHEFS INC ↗
  • Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
  • Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds ADAMS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Indianapolis ↗
  • Who funds ADAMS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DECATUR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
  • Who funds LIFEWISE INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S CARE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CONNOR BRITES WILDFLOWERS ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS COMMUNITY CORP ↗
  • Who funds HUMMINGBIRD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

Adams County Community Foundation IncIN22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Adams County Community Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Porter Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Porter Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 89 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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