· Private foundation
Potoff Private Philanthropy
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k3 grants · $517k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARIZONA LOCAL NEWS FOUNDATION | $775,000 |
| HANDI-DOGS INC DBA ABILITY DOGS OF ARIZONA | $300,000 |
| PIMA COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS | $200,000 |
| PIMA JTED FOUNDATION | $177,000 |
| MAKE WAY FOR BOOKS | $140,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $300k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $440k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ALArizona Local News Foundation2× · 2024–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +2% · 60% of their budget
- PJPIMA JTED FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $657k · revenue +59%
- PCPIMA COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS3× · 2022–2025 · $600k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $2.0M
- TPTHE PIMA COUNTY ACCOMMODATION SCHOOL DISTRICT CYCLE PROGRAMone grant, 2021 · $100k
- TPThe Primavera Foundation Incone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -18%
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.
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.
Our mission is to educate and inform public discourse and civic participation in arizona through local, independent journalism.
The Arts Foundation mission is to advance artistic expression, civic participation, and equitable economic growth of our diverse community by supporting, promoting, and advocating for arts and culture in our region.
Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…
Arizona Forward brings business and civic leaders together to promote cooperative efforts to improve the environmental sustainability and economic vitality of our state and local regions.
Pro-Choice Arizona centers abolition and reproductive justice values to prioritize community needs. We advance reproductive equity, pregnancy and family justice, and abortion access for all folks living in Arizona through direct service…
One arizonas mission is to increase civic participation among arizonans
Instituto's mission is to build sustained political power of low-income and communities of color in Arizona.
Phoenix Center for the Arts provides arts and culture opportunities for all through education, programming and advocacy.
Publishing a local online news source. We believe a well informed and connected community is essential to making San Antonio a better place to live, work and play.
Sonoran Prevention Works mission is building a healthy Arizona with people who use drugs. We envision an Arizona where justice, autonomy & wellbeing are guaranteed for people who use drugs.
To create and support cutting-edge, project-based sustainability solutions in arizona.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 15 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Arizona Local News Foundation ↗
- Who funds PIMA JTED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HANDI-DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds Make Way For Books ↗
- Who funds The Primavera Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Tucson Investigative Reporting Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF TUCSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN PIMA ALLIANCE ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Potoff Private Philanthropy funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Potoff Private Philanthropy. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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