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The Porticus North America Foundation F/K/A the Humanitas Foundation at a glance

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The Porticus North America Foundation F/K/A the Humanitas 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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$300k
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 2024.

Education$2.9MEnvironment$2.7MReligion$1.2MCivil Rights$960kPublic Benefit$800kInternational$400kPhilanthropy$336kScience & Tech$300kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $190k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $790k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$50,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$300,000
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS$175,000
CONSTRUCTIVE DIALOGUE INSTITUTE$100,000
CATHOLIC CHURCH EXTENSION SOCIETY OF THE US$100,000
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE US SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT$100,000
ISSUE ONE$100,000
ONE AMERICA MOVEMENT$60,000
ENDING CLERGY ABUSE (ECA) GLOBAL$55,240
SALT LAKE CIVIL NETWORK INC$50,000
NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION$50,000
FADICA$40,000
SOUTH DAKOTA EDUCATION EQUITY COALITION$35,000
RED CLOUD INDIAN SCHOOL INC$35,000
RED CLOUD RENEWABLE$35,000
MAKOCE AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT$35,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $152k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FUNDERS TOGETHER TO END HOMELESSNESS: $1k → 16%NATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE US SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT: $100k → 11%FUNDERS TOGETHER TO END HOMELESSNESS: $1k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE INTERNATIONAL: $50k → 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

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
SD
IN
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
DC
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of The Porticus North America Foundation F/K/A the Humanitas Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Porticus North America Foundation F/K/A the Humanitas Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.8M · 15 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +42% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
23

Total granted

$6.8M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+42%

Still filing today

67%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $655k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesReligionPhilanthropyCivil RightsPublic BenefitOther
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

  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
    2× · 2018–2022 · $560k · revenue +58%
  • SE
    SETON EDUCATION PARTNERS
    3× · 2020–2022 · $500k · revenue +163%
  • TN
    THE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $500k · revenue +282%

Funded once

  • LE
    LASALLIAN EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH INITIATIVES
    one grant, 2020 · $400k · revenue -4%
  • NR
    NATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTUREgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $375k · revenue +300% · 28% of their budget
  • CI
    ColaborativoPR Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $355k · revenue -2%
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.

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Council of Independent Colleges

The council of independent colleges is an association of nonprofit independent colleges and universities, state- based councils of independent colleges, and other higher education affiliates, that works to support college and university…

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2
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
3
Citizen University

Citizen university is working to fortify the habits and skills of powerful, responsible citizenship in communities across the country. our vision is a nation of vibrant, self-governing communities where each person understands their civic…

Public Benefit
4
Collegium Institute

Collegium Institute is a Catholic intellectual apostolate that fosters the Catholic intellectual tradition within the University of Pennsylvania community and within the greater region and secular academia. (Continued on Sch. O)

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5
Collaborative for Academic Social and Emotional Learning

Casel is a trusted source for knowledge about high-quality, evidence-based social and emotional learning (sel). our mission is to help make evidence-based social and emotional learning (sel) an integral part of education from preschool to…

Youth Development
6
Literacy Design Collaborative Inc

Seeks to ensure that every student in america graduates from (continued on schedule o) high school with the literacy skills necessary for success in college and career. ldc is a teacher-created instructional design system that transforms…

Education
7
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
8
Third Way Institute

Third way institute supports charitable and educational activities that advance centrist solutions to major economic, national security, energy and social policy issues.

Civil Rights
9
National Association of Independent Schools Inc

As the largest association of independent schools, nais co-creates the future of education by uniting and empowering our community. we do this through thought leadership, research, creation and curation of resources, and direct…

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10
Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose Inc

Chief executives for corporate purpose (cecp) is the only business counsel and network dedicated to driving measurable returns on purpose. we promote responsible purpose-driven business as it increases customer loyalty, builds employee…

Philanthropy
11
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
12
American Association of State Colleges and Universities

Aascu is a washington, d.c. based higher education association that represents the sector of over 500 regional public colleges, universities, and systems whose members share a learning and teaching centered culture, a commitment to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seton Education Partners; the most unlike its peers is George Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 52 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
21/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LARCHE USA(FOUNDATION INTERNATIONALE DE LARCHE): $2,400,000 · OtherLARCHE USA(FOUNDATION INTERNATIONALE DE LARCHE)FADICA: $560,000 · OtherFADICAUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE: $476,687 · OtherUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCEASSOCIATION OF CATHOLIC COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITY: $400,000 · OtherASSOCIATION OF CATHOLIC COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITYLASALLIAN EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH INITIATIVES: $400,000 · OtherLASALLIAN EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH INITIATIVESRED CLOUD INDIAN SCHOOL: $329,000 · OtherRED CLOUD INDIAN SCHOOL+26 more: $1,588,940 · Other+26 moreTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $559,760 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLL…THE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC: $500,000 · EducationTHE NEWS LITERACY PROJE…ColaborativoPR Inc: $354,689 · EducationColaborativoPR IncGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $325,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $80,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $75,000 · Education+3 more: $165,200 · Education+3 moreSETON EDUCATION PARTNERS: $500,000 · PhilanthropySETON EDU…TARIQ KHAMISA FOUNDATION INC TKF: $200,000 · PhilanthropyTARIQ KHA…ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $175,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELL…NATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE: $375,000 · Civil RightsCATHOLIC MOBILIZING NETWORK: $200,000 · Civil RightsRED CLOUD RENEWABLE: $335,000 · EnvironmentCenter for Humane Technology: $300,000 · Science & TechINTERFAITH AMERICA: $150,000 · ReligionTHE ONE AMERICA MOVEMENT: $60,000 · ReligionPRISON CONTEMPLATIVE FELLOWSHIP: $30,000 · Religion
Other$6,154,627Education$2,159,649Philanthropy$875,000Civil Rights$575,000Environment$335,000Science & Tech$300,000Religion$240,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $559,760 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSETON EDUCATION PARTNERS: $500,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTHE NEWS LITERACY PROJECT INC: $500,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetASSOCIATION OF CATHOLIC COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITY: $400,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetLASALLIAN EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH INITIATIVES: $400,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetNATIONAL RELIGIOUS CAMPAIGN AGAINST TORTURE: $375,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetRED CLOUD RENEWABLE: $335,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $325,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Humane Technology: $300,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCATHOLIC MOBILIZING NETWORK: $200,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetTARIQ KHAMISA FOUNDATION INC TKF: $200,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $175,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH AMERICA: $150,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMakoce Agriculture Development: $135,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSTRUCTIVE DIALOGUE INSTITUTE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE US SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetISSUE ONE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDHOOD EDUCATION INTERNATIONAL: $100,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $80,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEADERSHIP ROUNDTABLE INC: $70,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetUPSTREAM EDUCATION INC: $60,200 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetTHE ONE AMERICA MOVEMENT: $60,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNEW AMERICA FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASHOKA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA EDUCATION EQUITY COALITION: $35,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetPRISON CONTEMPLATIVE FELLOWSHIP: $30,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetCOMMONWEAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFUNDERS TOGETHER TO END HOMELESSNES: $2,000 over 2y, 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.

Lilly Endowment IncSilicon Valley Commun…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Lilly Endowment IncIN12.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lilly Endowment Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Porticus North America Foundation F/K/A the Humanitas Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Porticus North America Foundation F/K/A the Humanitas Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 Porticus North America Foundation F/K/A the Humanitas 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 52 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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