This research examines the influent of structural characteristics (shape, size, material properties, porosity), external conditions (mechanical load, thermal load, and foundation parameters) on the vibration and nonlinear dynamic response of shear deformable porous plates made of functionally graded materials (FGM) in the thermal environment and rested on the Pasternak’s elastic foundation. Reddy’s third-order shear deformation theory (TSDT) and von Kármán’s geometric nonlinearity are used to explore the structural behavior of thick FGM porous plates with two types of porosity distribution in FGM porous plates namely, even and uneven patterns. The solutions are obtained through the Bubnov-Galerkin method and Runge-Kutta methods. The outcomes are compared with other research in the result section to assess the reliability of the solution method in the paper.