Arizona · Private foundation
Potoff Private Philanthropy
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $775,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 6
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Potoff Private Philanthropy funded were first-time grantees, receiving 62% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $745k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $1.6M | 40% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $1.2M | 67% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $2.1M | 50% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $310k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $120k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $51k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $55k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona Local News Foundation | $1,475,000 | 2 | 60% |
| Pima Jted Foundation | $657,000 | 4 | 22% |
| Handi-Dogs Inc | $300,000 | 1 | 53% |
| Make Way For Books | $140,000 | 1 | 4% |
| The Primavera Foundation Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Tucson Investigative Reporting Center Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Rotary Club of Tucson Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Pima Animal Care Center | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Metropolitan Pima Alliance | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.8M), not named here.
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Arizona Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
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About Potoff Private Philanthropy
- How much does Potoff Private Philanthropy give?
- Potoff Private Philanthropy reported 5 grants totaling $1,592,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Potoff Private Philanthropy fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (42%), Education (28%), Arts & Culture (27%).
- Who are Potoff Private Philanthropy's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Arizona Local News Foundation ($1.5M), Pima Jted Foundation ($657k), Handi-Dogs Inc ($300k).
- Does Potoff Private Philanthropy fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Potoff Private Philanthropy accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Potoff Private Philanthropy?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc, Arizona Community Foundation.
- Where is Potoff Private Philanthropy based?
- Potoff Private Philanthropy is based in AZ.
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