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The Porphyry Road 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $187k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| International Rescue Committee | $23,000 |
| ULTIMATE PEACE INC | $22,000 |
| Inewsource | $18,000 |
| Wikimedia Foundation | $12,000 |
| Legal Aid Foundation | $12,000 |
| Colorado CASA | $12,000 |
| Monarch School | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| Humane Society of Pagosa Springs | $12,000 |
| Broken Shovels Farm Sanctuary | $12,000 |
| HIAS | $10,000 |
| Luvin Arms Animal Sanctuary | $10,000 |
| Humane Society of Pagosa Springs | $10,000 |
| Good Life Refuge | $10,000 |
| MdDS Balance Disorder Foundation | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- UPULTIMATE PEACE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $298k · revenue +5%
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC5× · 2019–2023 · $113k · revenue +49%
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC6× · 2017–2023 · $113k · revenue +102%
Funded once
MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INCone grant, 2020 · $18k · revenue -23%- OLOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INCone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -23%
- PPPlanned Parenthood of Illinoisone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -8%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
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…
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
Ipas works globally to advance reproductive justice by expanding access to abortion and contraception.
Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…
Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.
Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…
Using legal advocacy to make advances in science and technology safer for people and the planet.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky Inc and the most unlike its peers is Good Life Refuge. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 63 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ULTIMATE PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ARTBRIDGE PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds FOOTSTEPS INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds INVESTIGATIVE NEWSOURCE ↗
- Who funds MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF PAGOSA SPRINGS ↗
- Who funds LuMind IDSC Foundation ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds VITAMIN ANGEL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds Lifespan Research Institution ↗
- Who funds Colorado CASA Inc ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds MdDS BALANCE DISORDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Illinois ↗
- Who funds MALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF INDIANA AND KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds THE SENTENCING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado ↗
- Who funds LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Pinion Street Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Polis Schutz Family Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Tides Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Porphyry Road Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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