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Portz Fannie - Max Ta at a glance

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Portz Fannie - Max Ta

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.

$199k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$777kEducation$377kCivil Rights$56k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $181k
$60,307
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAPITAL UNIVERSITY$60,307
TRINITY LUTHERAN SEMINARY$60,307
EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA$60,307
ST PAUL S LUTHERAN CHURCH$18,468
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%ST PAULS LUTHERAN CHURCH: $17k → 13%TRINITY LUTHERAN SEMINARY: $81k → 15%EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA: $66k → 14%ST PAUL S LUTHERAN CHURCH: $20k → 18%ST PAULS LUTHERAN CHURCH: $17k → 13%CAPITAL UNIVERSITY: $81k → 15%EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA: $60k → 14%ST PAUL S LUTHERAN CHURCH: $18k → 18%CAPITAL UNIVERSITY: $66k → 15%EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA: $57k → 14%ST PAUL S LUTHERAN CHURCH: $17k → 18%TRINITY LUTHERAN SEMINARY: $66k → 15%EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA: $56k → 14%ST PAUL S LUTHERAN CHURCH: $17k → 18%CAPITAL UNIVERSITY: $60k → 15%ELCA FOUNDATION: $56k → 14%TRINITY LUTHERAN SEMINARY: $60k → 15%EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA: $54k → 14%TRINITY LUTHERAN SEMINARY: $57k → 15%CAPITAL UNIVERSITY: $57k → 15%TRINITY LUTHERAN SEMINARY: $56k → 15%CAPITAL UNIVERSITY: $56k → 15%CAPITAL UNIVERSITY: $56k → 15%TRINITY LUTHERAN SEMINARY: $56k → 15%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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 5 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
1

Total granted

$1.2M
$56k

Still filing today

20%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • TL
    TRINITY LUTHERAN SEMINARY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $377k
  • CU
    CAPITAL UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $377k · revenue -7%
  • EL
    EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA
    5× · 2021–2025 · $293k

Funded once

  • EF
    ELCA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $56k
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
04the grantee network

1 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. 1 of the 6 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
1/1
Grantees still filing
0/1
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRINITY LUTHERAN SEMINARY: $376,716 · OtherTRINITY LUTHERAN SEMINARYEVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA: $293,349 · OtherEVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICAST PAUL S LUTHERAN CHURCH: $72,362 · OtherST PAUL S LUTHERAN CHURCHELCA FOUNDATION: $56,225 · OtherELCA FOUNDATIONST PAULS LUTHERAN CHURCH: $34,332 · OtherCAPITAL UNIVERSITY: $376,716 · EducationCAPITAL UNIVERSITY
Other$832,984Education$376,716

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCAPITAL UNIVERSITY: $376,716 over 6y, 0.1% 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 CAPITAL UNIVERSITY ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Portz Fannie - Max Ta funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Portz Fannie - Max Ta. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 6 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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