Michigan · Private foundation
The Porter Family 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.
- $106k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $35,259
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 21
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations The Porter Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $101k | 35% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $99k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $105k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $95k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $109k | 53% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $67k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $74k | 76% |
| FY2017 | 9 | $50k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan Climate Action Network | $144,268 | 5 | 8% |
| Ecology Center | $52,050 | 7 | 1% |
| Soulardarity | $35,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Michigan Enviromental Council | $34,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Center for Michigan | $31,000 | 8 | 0% |
| For Love of Water | $30,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Traverse Area Recreation & Transportation Trails Inc | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| EcoWorks | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| National Wildlife Federation | $18,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Discovery Center Great Lakes | $15,500 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($188k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Porter Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · The Kresge Foundation · Michigan Enviromental Council · Americana Foundation · The Energy Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation
How this is measured
About The Porter Family Foundation
- How much does The Porter Family Foundation give?
- The Porter Family Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $105,692 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Porter Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (67%), Recreation & Sports (6%), Public Benefit (6%).
- Who are The Porter Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Michigan Climate Action Network ($144k), Ecology Center ($52k), Soulardarity ($35k).
- Does The Porter Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Porter Family 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 The Porter Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation, United States Energy Foundation.
- Where is The Porter Family Foundation based?
- The Porter Family Foundation is based in MI.
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