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Ptsrk 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.

$290k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
17%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 11
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$2.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Ptsrk Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving6$290k17%
FY20236$290k17%
FY20226$295k0%
FY20218$365k0%
FY202010$390k20%
FY20199$375k11%
FY20189$405k22%
FY201711$410kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$1.6MCivil Rights$800kHealth$225kAnimals$80kPhilanthropy$70kEducation$55kArts & Culture$45kHuman Services$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Third Way Institute$800,00081%
The Breakthrough Institute$800,00084%
Clean Air Task Force Inc$430,00081%
Generation Atomic$170,000818%
University of Michigan$125,000235%
Revive & Restore$80,00082%
Civilization Works$80,0005n/a
Nuclear Innovation Alliance$75,00022%
Muse Film & Television Inc$45,000170%
Rebuild Hope$10,000116%
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All grantees of Ptsrk Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Third Way Institute$800,00081%
The Breakthrough Institute$800,00084%
Clean Air Task Force Inc$430,00081%
Generation Atomic$170,000818%
University of Michigan$125,000235%
Revive & Restore$80,00082%
Civilization Works$80,0005n/a
Nuclear Innovation Alliance$75,00022%
Muse Film & Television Inc$45,000170%
Rebuild Hope$10,000116%
Social & Economic Action for Lebanoninc$10,00011%
Mothers Against Media Addiction$10,00012%
Ravenswood Education Foundation$2,50010%

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($183k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Ptsrk Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThird Way Institute: $800,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetThe Breakthrough Institute: $800,000 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetClean Air Task Force Inc: $430,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetGeneration Atomic: $170,000 over 8y, 18% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $125,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetRevive & Restore: $80,000 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetNuclear Innovation Alliance: $75,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMuse Film & Television Inc: $45,000 over 1y, 70% of budgetRebuild Hope: $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetSocial & Economic Action for Lebanoninc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMothers Against Media Addiction: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetRavenswood Education Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.

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About Ptsrk Foundation

How much does Ptsrk Foundation give?
Ptsrk Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $290,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Ptsrk Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (54%), Civil Rights (28%), Health (8%).
Who are Ptsrk Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Third Way Institute ($800k), The Breakthrough Institute ($800k), Clean Air Task Force Inc ($430k).
Does Ptsrk Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ptsrk 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 Ptsrk 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, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is Ptsrk Foundation based?
Ptsrk Foundation is based in CA.

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 19 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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