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The Porphyry Road Foundation at a glance

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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.

$192k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$313kCivil Rights$302kHealth$258kArts & Culture$172kInternational$102kEducation$98kAnimals$97kHuman Services$57kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $187k
$12,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
International Rescue Committee$23,000
ULTIMATE PEACE INC$22,000
Inewsource$18,000
Colorado CASA$12,000
Monarch School$12,000
Humane Society of Pagosa Springs$12,000
Wikimedia Foundation$12,000
Legal Aid Foundation$12,000
Individual grant recipient$12,000
Broken Shovels Farm Sanctuary$12,000
HIAS$10,000
Good Life Refuge$10,000
Luvin Arms Animal Sanctuary$10,000
Humane Society of Pagosa Springs$10,000
MdDS Balance Disorder Foundation$5,000
02The need
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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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Good Life Refuge: $10k → 9%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $10k → 14%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $5k → 17%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

MN
IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
CA
CO
MD
KS
DC
GA
TX
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 26 repeat orgs$332k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
31

Total granted

$1.3M
$271k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
0%

Still filing today

85%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalCivil RightsAnimalsHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • UP
    ULTIMATE PEACE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $298k · revenue +5%
  • NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $113k · revenue +102%
  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $113k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $18k · revenue -23%
  • MM
    MALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -12%
  • HR
    HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -78%
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
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
2
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal
3
Colorado Legal Services

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.

Crime & Legal
4
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

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.

Human Services
5
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
6
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
7
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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8
Ipas

Ipas works globally to advance reproductive justice by expanding access to abortion and contraception.

International
9
International Life Sciences Institute

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…

Science & Tech
10
Women Donors Network

Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.

Philanthropy
11
Pro Publica Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology Inc

Using legal advocacy to make advances in science and technology safer for people and the planet.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 63 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
27/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ULTIMATE PEACE INC: $298,000 · InternationalULTIMATE PEACE INCInternational Rescue Committee INC: $51,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee …THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $42,000 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTIS…HIAS INC: $26,000 · InternationalHIAS INCHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $15,000 · International+2 more: $8,000 · InternationalNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $113,000 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFENS…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $113,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIB…Colorado CASA Inc: $22,000 · Civil RightsColorado CASA IncMALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND: $15,000 · Civil RightsMALDEF - MEXICAN A…INVESTIGATIVE NEWSOURCE DBA INEWSOURCE: $54,500 · OtherINVESTIGATIVE NEWSOURCE DBA IN…LuMind IDSC Foundation: $30,000 · OtherLuMind IDSC FoundationTHE SENTENCING PROJECT: $15,000 · OtherOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC: $15,000 · OtherPBS SOCAL - PBS NEWSHOUR: $15,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF INDIANA AND KENTUCKY INC: $15,000 · OtherARTBRIDGE PROJECTS INC: $53,000 · OtherARTBRIDGE PROJECTS INCTHE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY: $15,000 · OtherVITAMIN ANGEL ALLIANCE INC: $27,500 · OtherVITAMIN ANGEL ALLIANCE INCMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $18,000 · Other+23 more: $174,000 · Other+23 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $59,000 · HealthPLANNED PAREN…ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $29,000 · HealthROCKY MOUNTAI…Lifespan Research Institution: $25,000 · HealthLifespan Rese…PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS: $20,000 · HealthPLANNED PAREN…MdDS BALANCE DISORDER FOUNDATION: $15,000 · HealthMdDS BALANCE …Planned Parenthood of Illinois: $15,000 · HealthPlanned Paren…LUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION: $12,000 · HealthLUCKY DUCK FO…PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES: $10,000 · HealthPLANNED PAREN…WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $64,000 · EducationWIKIMEDIA…INVESTIGATIVE NEWSOURCE: $41,000 · EducationINVESTIGA…MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT: $34,000 · EducationMONARCH S…HUMANE SOCIETY OF PAGOSA SPRINGS: $32,000 · AnimalsWASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $21,000 · AnimalsTHE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION: $12,000 · AnimalsLuvin Arms: $10,000 · AnimalsFOOTSTEPS INC: $47,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $10,000 · Human ServicesGood Life Refuge: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $5,000 · Human Services
International$440,000Civil Rights$263,000Other$432,000Health$185,000Education$139,000Animals$75,000Human Services$72,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetULTIMATE PEACE INC: $298,000 over 9y, 12% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $113,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $113,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $64,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $59,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetARTBRIDGE PROJECTS INC: $53,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $51,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOOTSTEPS INC: $47,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $42,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINVESTIGATIVE NEWSOURCE: $41,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT: $34,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF PAGOSA SPRINGS: $32,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetLuMind IDSC Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $29,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVITAMIN ANGEL ALLIANCE INC: $27,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $26,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLifespan Research Institution: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetColorado CASA Inc: $22,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $21,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SENTENCING PROJECT: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMdDS BALANCE DISORDER FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF INDIANA AND KENTUCKY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLegal Aid Foundation of Colorado: $12,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLUCKY DUCK FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GENTLE BARN FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGood Life Refuge: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetIMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVOICES OF OUR CITY CHOIR INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetPATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT INC: $3,000 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.

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 Foun…Pinion Street Foundat…Colorado Gives Founda…The Polis Schutz Fami…AbbVie FoundationShell USA Company Fou…Tides FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…Silicon Valley Commun…American Endowment Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…
Jewish Community Foundation of San DiegoCA21× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Porphyry Road Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Porphyry Road Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Museum of Science: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Porphyry Road Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 63 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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