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Joan G & Michael R Potter Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Joan G & Michael R Potter 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.

$25k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$23kInternational$15kReligion$6kArts & Culture$4kHealth$3kFood & Nutrition$2kHuman Services$2kHousing & Shelter$500
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
College of Wooster$9,000
MYSO$8,500
Sign$2,500
Samaritans Purse$2,000
Asendigo$2,000
Jumbliee Partners$1,000
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 (FY20–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%Table: $1k → 13%Table: $500 → 13%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
WI
MA
OH
NJ
CO
WV
VA
NC
DC
GA
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

45%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$24k · 9 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
10

Total granted

$24k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
0%

Still filing today

56%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalReligionHealthHuman ServicesOther
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

  • PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $7k · revenue +33%
  • JP
    JUBILEE PARTNERS INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $5k · revenue +11%
  • MY
    MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $4k · revenue +126%

Funded once

  • NJ
    Norman Jordan African American Acad
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
  • AF
    ABLE FAMILIES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue -6%
  • PU
    Princton University
    one grant, 2020 · $571
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.

1
Floresta Usa Incorporated

Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…

International
2
World Learning Inc

Creating a more sustainable, peaceful, and just world through education, development, and exchange since 1932. as both an accredited academic institution and an international ngo, world learning, inc. offers the best of theory and practice…

International
3
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
4
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
5
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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6
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
7
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
8
Elizabethtown College

Provide a transformative educational experience that cultivates strengths of its students.

Education
9
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
10
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
11
Assist International Inc

Assist international partners with changemakers around the world to provide solutions that save lives and build resilient communities. we accomplish our mission with actionable projects that make a lasting and sustainable impact on the…

International
12
Project Mercy Inc

The vision of project mercy is to "renew the heart of a nation by freeing people from physical and spiritual poverty". the mission is to transform how people live and think and build strong, self-sufficient communities in ethiopia and…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jubilee Partners Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MYSO: $8,500 · OtherMYSOJUBILEE PARTNERS INC: $4,500 · OtherJUBILEE PARTNERS INCSpout Springs Church: $4,000 · OtherSpout Springs ChurchMILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $3,600 · OtherMILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCSign: $2,500 · OtherSignAsendigo: $2,000 · OtherAsendigoNorman Jordan African American Acad: $2,000 · OtherNorman Jordan African American AcadJubilee: $1,500 · Other+8 more: $4,071 · Other+8 moreTHE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER: $9,000 · EducationTHE COLLEGE OF WOOST…+2 more: $500 · EducationPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $7,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HE…SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $2,000 · ReligionTABLE MINISTRIES INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $600 · InternationalHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $500 · International
Other$32,671Education$9,500Health$7,000Religion$2,000Human Services$1,500International$1,100

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJUBILEE PARTNERS INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $3,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTABLE MINISTRIES INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetABLE FAMILIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREE UNION COUNTRY SCHOOL: $250 over 1y, 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.

  • Who funds THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds JUBILEE PARTNERS INC ↗
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds TABLE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds ABLE FAMILIES INC ↗
  • Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
  • Who funds FREE UNION COUNTRY SCHOOL ↗

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.

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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 Joan G & Michael R Potter Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joan G & Michael R Potter Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.

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 24 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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