Best Portion Foundation

• The foundation does not accept unsolicited requests and works by invitation only, so a cold application is unlikely to be considered; look for an existing connection or wait for an invitation before writing.
• The filing records grants to education organisations, including college-access and college-completion groups, schools and teacher-focused organisations, as well as arts, climate-innovation and healthcare grants, so check whether your work sits close to these.
• About 8 in 10 of its grants fall between $20,000 and $105,000, and half are $35,000 or less, so a request in that region is more realistic than a much larger one.
• Repeat giving is strong: 90% of its grant dollars went to organisations it had also funded in the earlier filings, which suggests that prior funding counts for a lot.
• No geographic focus is stated, so the recipients in Illinois, New York, Virginia and Massachusetts should not be read as a limit on who may approach it.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Chicago Scholars Foundation · Public
  $539,6632024 tax year
• Randolph College · Public
  $100,7322024 tax year
• A Better Chicago · Public
  $100,4722024 tax year
• Teach For America · Public
  $75,4162024 tax year
• Kids First Chicago · Public
  $54,9102024 tax year
• School Year Abroad · Public
  $50,0002024 tax year
• Partnership for College Completion · Public
  $49,8712024 tax year
• Evergreen Climate Innovations · Public
  $35,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.