The Crescent Porter Hale Foundation is a private family foundation supporting nonprofit organizations through grants…More in five Bay area counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo.</p> <p>The foundation has highlighted several areas of concern that it hopes to fund. Those areas are art and music education, Catholic elementary and high schools, programs that focus on improving the quality of life for the disadvantaged, and agencies serving at-risk and minority youth, families or the elderly.</p>