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Pott Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
85
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$2.5MHuman Services$1.8MHealth$1.6MYouth Development$745kFood & Nutrition$680kHousing & Shelter$553kCommunity Improvement$210kPhilanthropy$175kOther$0
02FY2025 · 85 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k32 grants · $178k
  • $10k–50k47 grants · $797k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $435k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST LOUIS$90,000
URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SAINT LOUIS$85,000
CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MISSOURI$85,000
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS$75,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF$50,000
CARONDELET COMMUNITY BETTERMENT FEDERATI$50,000
SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY$40,000
RANKEN- JORDAN HOME FOR -$40,000
ST LOUIS AREA FOODBANK INC$40,000
OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC$35,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$35,000
ST PATRICK CENTER$30,000
CHRISTIAN ACTIVITY CENTER$30,000
SAINT LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY$30,000
FOOD OUTREACH INC$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GOT YOUR SIX SUPPORT DOGS: $20k → 12%CHRISTIAN ACTIVITY CENTER: $30k → 16%GOT YOUR SIX SUPPORT DOGS: $20k → 12%CHRISTIAN ACTIVITY CENTER: $30k → 16%GOT YOUR SIX SUPPORT DOGS: $20k → 12%CHRISTIAN ACTIVITY CENTER: $30k → 16%PONY BIRD INCORPORATED: $10k → 9%GOT YOUR SIX SUPPORT DOGS: $20k → 12%CHRISTIAN ACTIVITY CENTER: $30k → 16%GOT YOUR SIX SUPPORT DOGS: $20k → 12%CHRISTIAN ACTIVITY CENTER: $30k → 16%CHRISTIAN ACTIVITY CENTER: $30k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF -- MISSOURI: $85k → 11%EVANGELICAL CHILDREN'S HOME: $10k → 11%EVANGELICAL CHILDRENS HOME: $10k → 11%EVANGELICAL CHILDRENS HOME: $10k → 11%EVANGELICAL CHILDRENS HOME: $10k → 11%EVANGELICAL CHILDREN'S HOME: $10k → 11%NURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $10k → 11%NURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $10k → 11%GUARDIAN ANGEL SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $20k → 21%NURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $10k → 11%GUARDIAN ANGEL SETTLEMENT ASSOC: $20k → 21%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%GUARDIAN ANGEL SETTLEMENT ASSOC: $20k → 21%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%GUARDIAN ANGEL SETTLEMENT ASSOC: $20k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI: $15k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI: $15k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI: $15k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI: $15k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI: $15k → 21%COVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI: $15k → 21%UNLEASHING POTENTIAL: $13k → 21%UNLEASHING POTENTIAL: $13k → 21%UNLEASHING POTENTIAL: $13k → 21%UNLEASHING POTENTIAL: $10k → 21%UNLEASHING POTENTIAL: $10k → 21%UNLEASHING POTENTIAL: $10k → 21%THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $10k → 21%NURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $10k → 11%NURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $10k → 11%NURSES FOR NEWBORNS: $10k → 11%CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF MISSOURI: $85k → 11%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MISSOURI: $85k → 11%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MISSOURI: $85k → 11%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MISSOURI: $85k → 11%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MISSOURI: $85k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
WI
NY
OR
IN
OH
PA
MO
VA
KS
NC
SC
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.2M · 127 repeat orgs$778k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

127 repeat relationships — 76 still active in FY2025, 51 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

127
28

Total granted

$8.2M
$556k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
0%

Still filing today

79%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $223k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • SL
    ST LOUIS MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $440k · revenue +16%
  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $420k · revenue +16%
  • OF
    OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $268k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $88k
  • GH
    GRACE HILL SETTLEMENT HOUSE
    one grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue 0%
  • UL
    URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS
    one grant, 2024 · $60k · revenue 0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Mission St Louis

Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.

Community Improvement
2
St Louis Learning Disabilities Association

To provide children with hope, understanding, and compassion so they can reach their full potential.

Human Services
3
St Martin's Child Center

Providing day care services to infants and children of low income families in northern st. louis county, missouri

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4
St Louis Community Foundation

To promote the possibilities of charitable giving, helping charitable citizens understand how they can effectively provide for the community they love and the causes they care deeply about.

Philanthropy
5
Gateway Homeless Services Inc

To empower adults and families to become independent and permanently housed. the organization provides shelter, food, and other life sustaining materials and activities for destitute families, children and the homeless in the city of st.…

Human Services
6
Larche St Louis

High quality, 24/7 support in neighborhood homes for persons with intellectual disabilities. inclusive educational opportunities for people in st. louis. changing the way persons with disabilities are seen and highlighting their…

Health
7
St Louis Life

To enable individuals with developmental disabilities to achieve the highest level of independent living and live a full and enriched life.

Housing & Shelter
8
St Louis Economic Development Partnership

Economic development.

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9
Sinnissippi Centers Inc

It is the mission of sinnissippi centers, inc. to provide quality, coordinated and responsive behavioral healthcare services to individuals, families and the communities we serve.

Health
10
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
11
The Louisville Urban League Inc

As an active partner, leader and catalyst, we will assist african americans, other minority groups and the disadvantaged attain social and economic equality and stability through direct services and advocacy.

Human Services
12
Greater St Louis Inc

Greater st. louis, inc. brings together business and civic leaders to create jobs, drive inclusive economic growth, and increase the st. louis metro area's global competitiveness. we speak with a unified voice, lead with a bold agenda, and…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Crisis Nursery and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 45 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%1%<5yr13%1%5–10yr17%13%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr16%29%35–55yr19%37%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr17%8%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr16%28%35–55yr19%49%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/122
the rest of the field
14%
1,453/10,035

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.

04the grantee network

116 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. 116 of the 164 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
115/116
Grantees still filing
74/116
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST LOUIS MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — $440,000 · OtherST LOUIS MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC — $237,500 · OtherST PATRICK CENTER — $177,500 · OtherST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY — $165,000 · OtherRANKEN- JORDAN HOME FOR - — $160,000 · Other+94 more — $3,498,511 · Other+94 moreCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MISSOURI — $510,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIET…CHRISTIAN ACTIVITY CENTER — $180,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN ACTIVITY CEN…GUARDIAN ANGEL SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION — $120,000 · Human ServicesGUARDIAN ANGEL SETTLEM…THE WOMEN'S SAFE HOUSE — $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S SAFE HOUSEGOT YOUR SIX SUPPORT DOGS — $100,000 · Human ServicesGOT YOUR SIX SUPPORT D…COVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI — $90,000 · Human ServicesUNLEASHING POTENTIAL — $67,500 · Human ServicesNURSES FOR NEWBORNS — $60,000 · Human ServicesPONY BIRD INC — $60,000 · Human Services+17 more — $461,000 · Human Services+17 moreWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $420,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVER…ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY — $240,000 · EducationST LOUIS UNIVERSI…Ranken Technical College — $120,000 · EducationRanken Technical …CITY ACADEMY INC — $90,000 · EducationCITY ACADEMY INCMARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL — $90,000 · EducationMARIAN MIDDLE SCH…MIRIAM FOUNDATION — $62,000 · EducationMISSOURI COLLEGES FUND INC — $50,000 · EducationST LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Education+8 more — $238,500 · Education+8 moreOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC — $267,500 · Food & NutritionFOOD OUTREACH INC — $125,000 · Food & NutritionAFFTON CHRISTIAN FOOD PANTRY — $50,000 · Food & NutritionNAMI St Louis — $97,000 · HealthMEMORY CARE HOME SOLUTIONS — $68,000 · HealthCHILD CENTER-MARYGROVE — $60,000 · HealthGATEWAY TO HOPE — $45,000 · HealthDelta Gamma Center for Children with Vis — $25,000 · HealthPREVENTED — $20,000 · HealthTREE HOUSE OF GREATER ST LOUIS — $20,000 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $17,500 · Health+1 more — $1,000 · HealthA MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND — $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentLift for Life Gym Inc — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC — $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentSHERWOOD FOREST CAMP INC — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentMIDTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD OPPORTUNITIES CORP — $30,000 · Youth Development+2 more — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC — $120,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE — $20,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA — $20,000 · PhilanthropyST ANDREWS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Philanthropy
Other$4,678,511Human Services$1,748,500Education$1,360,500Food & Nutrition$442,500Health$353,500Youth Development$245,000Philanthropy$175,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MISSOURI — $510,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $420,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC — $267,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY — $240,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC — $237,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN ACTIVITY CENTER — $180,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetST PATRICK CENTER — $177,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY — $165,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCarondelet Community Betterment Federation Inc — $150,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetFOOD OUTREACH INC — $125,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetGUARDIAN ANGEL SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION — $120,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC — $120,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRanken Technical College — $120,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetINDEPENDENCE CENTER — $107,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S SAFE HOUSE — $100,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetGOT YOUR SIX SUPPORT DOGS — $100,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MISSOURI — $100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMISSOURI GIRLS TOWN FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetNAMI St Louis — $97,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI — $90,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCITY ACADEMY INC — $90,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL — $90,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetA MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND — $90,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetEMMAUS HOMES INC — $90,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGRACE HILL SETTLEMENT HOUSE — $75,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetThe German St Vincent Orphan Association — $75,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetAIM HIGH ST LOUIS — $75,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetMEMORY CARE HOME SOLUTIONS — $68,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetUNLEASHING POTENTIAL — $67,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMIRIAM FOUNDATION — $62,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS — $60,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS — $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNURSES FOR NEWBORNS — $60,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetLIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC — $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD CENTER-MARYGROVE — $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPONY BIRD INC — $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS — $60,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetKIPP ST LOUIS — $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE CENTER FOR EARLY LEARNING — $60,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBEYOND HOUSING INC — $55,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMISSOURI COLLEGES FUND INC — $50,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetLift for Life Gym Inc — $50,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetEvangelical Children's Home — $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetST LOUIS COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSTS JOACHIM AND ANN CARE SERVICE — $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAFFTON CHRISTIAN FOOD PANTRY — $50,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION — $47,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS — $45,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budget
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 CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN ACTIVITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ST PATRICK CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
  • Who funds Carondelet Community Betterment Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds FOOD OUTREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds GUARDIAN ANGEL SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
  • Who funds Ranken Technical College ↗
  • Who funds INDEPENDENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE WOMEN'S SAFE HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds GOT YOUR SIX SUPPORT DOGS ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MISSOURI ↗
  • Who funds MISSOURI GIRLS TOWN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NAMI St Louis ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE MISSOURI ↗
  • Who funds CITY ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds MARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds A MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND ↗
  • Who funds EMMAUS HOMES INC ↗
  • Who funds GRACE HILL SETTLEMENT HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds The German St Vincent Orphan Association ↗
  • Who funds AIM HIGH ST LOUIS ↗
  • Who funds MEMORY CARE HOME SOLUTIONS ↗
  • Who funds UNLEASHING POTENTIAL ↗
  • Who funds MIRIAM FOUNDATION ↗

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.

St Louis Community Fo…United Way of Greater…Employees Community F…St Louis Community Fo…Commerce Bancshares F…Youthbridge Community…Norman J Stupp Founda…Brown Dana Charitable…World Wide Technology…Jordan Mary R & Ettie…St Louis Philanthropi…Moneta Group Charitab…
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO130.7× affinity77 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · St Louis Community Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Norman J Stupp Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · World Wide Technology Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · St Louis Philanthropic Organization · Moneta Group Charitable 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 Pott Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    59report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Pott Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Pott Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 164 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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