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Mott Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$2.8MEducation$2.0MPhilanthropy$275kHealth$230kAnimals$135kHousing & Shelter$117kHuman Services$96kEnvironment$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $157k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $478k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.5M
$25,070
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THE ARGYROS$10,000
SUN VALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $75k → 7%SPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $75k → 7%SPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $75k → 7%SPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 7%SPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 7%SWIFTSURE RANCH THERAPEUTIC EC: $25k → 7%SWIFTSURE RANCH THERAPEUTIC EC: $25k → 7%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.
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 15 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
6

Total granted

$3.9M
$916k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+26%

Still filing today

80%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $550k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationAnimalsEnvironmentHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • SV
    Sun Valley Community School Inc
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +56%
  • AS
    ANIMAL SHELTER OF WOOD RIVER VALLEY DBA MOUNTAIN HUMANE
    5× · 2019–2024 · $85k · revenue +44%
  • TV
    THE V FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $80k · revenue +91%

Funded once

  • SV
    SUN VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $825k · revenue -67%
  • O
    ODC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • HG
    HIGHER GROUND USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $11k · revenue +26%
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
San Lorenzo Valley Mountain Community Theater
Arts & Culture
2
Sonoma Valley Film Festival

Sonoma valley film society produces the annual international film festival

Arts & Culture
3
Salt Lake Acting Company

Salt lake acting company's mission is to engage and enrich community through brave, contemporary theatre.

Arts & Culture
4
Transcendence Theatre Company

Performing arts organization dedicated to combining health and wellness with the arts in the community it serves.

Arts & Culture
5
Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation Inc

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…

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6
Sundance Institute

Sundance institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the discovery and development of independent artists and audiences.

Arts & Culture
7
Southern Vermont Arts Center Inc Po Box 617

As one of New Englands leading visual and performing arts institutions, SVAC's mission is to promote and nurture the arts.

Arts & Culture
8
Vail Valley Foundation

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.

Community Improvement
9
Southwest Washington Center for the Arts
Philanthropy
10
Theatreworks Silicon Valley

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.

Arts & Culture
11
Skagit Symphony

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.

Arts & Culture
12
Silicon Valley Shakespeare

Silicon valley shakespeare is innovating the classics through unique and relevant theatrical experiences that illuminate and inspire modern audiences.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sun Valley Summer Symphony Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Sun Valley Community School Inc: $1,300,250 · EducationSun Valley Community School IncThe Community Library Association Inc: $500,000 · EducationThe Community Library Association In…+1 more: $60,070 · EducationTHE ARGYROS: $1,325,324 · OtherTHE ARGYROSTHE COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $120,000 · OtherTHE COMMUNITY LIBRARYWOOD RIVER COMMUNITY YMCA: $96,000 · OtherWOOD RIVER COMMUNITY YMCA+5 more: $90,700 · Other+5 moreSUN VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS INC: $825,000 · Arts & CultureSUN VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS INCSUN VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL INC: $600,000 · Arts & CultureSUN VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL INCSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $60,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $89,830 · Arts & Culture+4 moreSPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $275,000 · Human ServicesSWIFTSURE RANCH THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesMAYO CLINIC: $100,000 · HealthTHE V FOUNDATION: $80,000 · HealthANIMAL SHELTER OF WOOD RIVER VALLEY DBA MOUNTAIN HUMANE: $85,000 · AnimalsPets Lifeline Inc: $50,000 · AnimalsWOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO: $50,000 · Environment
Education$1,860,320Other$1,632,024Arts & Culture$1,574,830Human Services$325,000Health$180,000Animals$135,000Environment$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSun Valley Community School Inc: $1,300,250 over 7y, 6.7% of budgetSUN VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL INC: $600,000 over 3y, 79% of budgetThe Community Library Association Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetSPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $275,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL SHELTER OF WOOD RIVER VALLEY DBA MOUNTAIN HUMANE: $85,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFARWISE INC: $60,070 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPets Lifeline Inc: $50,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSWIFTSURE RANCH THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC: $50,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetWOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC: $44,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSUN VALLEY PLAYWRIGHTS RESIDENCY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetBALLET SUN VALLEY INC: $15,830 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHIGHER GROUND USA INC: $10,700 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARCH COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Spur Community Founda…The Bessemer Giving F…The Nalen FoundationBoswell Family Founda…Helios FoundationIdaho Community Found…The San Francisco Fou…Vanguard Charitable E…The Shafran Family Fo…The Lehman FoundationThrasher Koffey Found…Kemmerer Family Found…
Spur Community Foundation IncID20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Mott Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mott Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Mott Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Mott Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 25 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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