· Private foundation
Mott Family Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $157k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $478k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ARGYROS | $1,000,000 |
| COMMUNITY LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC | $500,000 |
| SUN VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL | $150,000 |
| SUN VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL | $150,000 |
| SPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| THE ARGYROS | $53,350 |
| WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST COMPANY | $50,000 |
| SUN VALLEY COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $25,250 |
| FAR AND WISE | $25,070 |
| SPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MOUNTAIN HUMANE | $20,000 |
| V FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| SUN VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL | $12,000 |
| SUN VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL | $10,000 |
| SUN VALLEY PLAYWRIGHTS RESIDENCY | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $325k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $550k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SVSun Valley Community School Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +56%
- ASANIMAL SHELTER OF WOOD RIVER VALLEY DBA MOUNTAIN HUMANE5× · 2019–2024 · $85k · revenue +44%
- TVTHE V FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $80k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- SVSUN VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS INCone grant, 2017 · $825k · revenue -67%
- OODCone grant, 2023 · $50k
- HGHIGHER GROUND USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $11k · revenue +26%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Sonoma valley film society produces the annual international film festival
Salt lake acting company's mission is to engage and enrich community through brave, contemporary theatre.
Performing arts organization dedicated to combining health and wellness with the arts in the community it serves.
The sun valley ski education foundation, inc. is dedicated to providing winter sports programs for the youth of the wood river valley, to include all ability and interest levels, regardless of each participant's economic level. the primary…
Sundance institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the discovery and development of independent artists and audiences.
As one of New Englands leading visual and performing arts institutions, SVAC's mission is to promote and nurture the arts.
Vail valley foundation was created to enhance the quality of life in the vail valley and showcase our community to a global audience through arts, athletics, and education.
Our mission is to ignite imagination and foster meaningful connections as an outstanding professional theatre that celebrates diverse experiences and our shared humanity, enriching silicon valley and beyond.
Skagit Symphony's mission is to present exceptional orchestral experiences to a growing and inclusive audience; to enrich, entertain, educate, and inspire our community through music.
Silicon valley shakespeare is innovating the classics through unique and relevant theatrical experiences that illuminate and inspire modern audiences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sun Valley Summer Symphony Inc and the most unlike its peers is San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Sun Valley Community School Inc ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds The Community Library Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL SHELTER OF WOOD RIVER VALLEY DBA MOUNTAIN HUMANE ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FARWISE INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO ↗
- Who funds SWIFTSURE RANCH THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Pets Lifeline Inc ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY PLAYWRIGHTS RESIDENCY INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET SUN VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHER GROUND USA INC ↗
- Who funds ARCH COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Spur Community Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Nalen Foundation · Boswell Family Foundation · Helios Foundation · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Shafran Family Foundation · The Lehman Foundation · Thrasher Koffey Foundation · Kemmerer Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Mott Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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