Virginia · Private foundation
Potomac Health Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $5.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 55
- Grants FY2024
- 54
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $84,100
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 60
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $110M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations Potomac Health Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 53 | $5.7M | 17% |
| FY2023 | 54 | $5.8M | 30% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $866k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 55 | $6.2M | 31% |
| FY2020 | 60 | $5.1M | 28% |
| FY2019 | 51 | $5.2M | 29% |
| FY2018 | 44 | $5.2M | 30% |
| FY2017 | 42 | $4.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greater Prince William Area Community Health Center Inc | $1,840,278 | 8 | 4% |
| Northern Virginia Family Services Inc | $1,795,819 | 8 | 1% |
| Youth for Tomorrow-New Life Center Inc | $1,764,610 | 7 | 1% |
| The House Inc | $1,700,800 | 7 | 13% |
| NOVA ScriptsCentral | $1,576,935 | 8 | 15% |
| Pathway Homes Inc | $1,280,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Fredericksburg Area Regional Health Council Inc | $1,126,550 | 8 | 6% |
| Virginia Poverty Law Center Inc | $946,429 | 5 | 6% |
| The Arc of Greater Prince William/Insight Inc | $936,422 | 4 | 9% |
| The Virginia Foundation for Community College Education Inc | $904,257 | 7 | 5% |
Show all 78 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 52 recipients with no EIN on record ($12M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Potomac Health Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 74 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Sentara Health · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Human Services Alliance of Greater Prince William Inc · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · United Way of the National Capital Area · Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties · Act for Alexandria · Uva Prince William Medical Center
How this is measured
About Potomac Health Foundation
- How much does Potomac Health Foundation give?
- Potomac Health Foundation reported 55 grants totaling $5,865,522 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 60 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Potomac Health Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (43%), Human Services (11%), Education (9%).
- Who are Potomac Health Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Greater Prince William Area Community Health Center Inc ($1.8M), Northern Virginia Family Services Inc ($1.8M), Youth for Tomorrow-New Life Center Inc ($1.8M).
- Does Potomac Health Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Potomac Health Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Potomac Health Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc, Sentara Health, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Potomac Health Foundation based?
- Potomac Health Foundation is based in VA.
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