How much does Pott Foundation give?

Pott Foundation reported 85 grants totaling $1,410,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 95 and 110 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Pott Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (27%), Human Services (20%), Health (18%).

Who are Pott Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Children's Home Society of Missouri ($510k), St Louis Mercantile Library Association ($440k), Washington University ($420k).

Does Pott Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Pott Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Pott Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, United Way of Greater St Louis Inc, Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company.

Where is Pott Foundation based?

Pott Foundation is based in MN.

Pott Foundation

Pott Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Pott Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$90k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k32 grants · $178k
$10k–50k47 grants · $797k
$50k–250k6 grants · $435k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$27M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
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
ST LOUIS AREA FOODBANK INC	$40,000
RANKEN- JORDAN HOME FOR -	$40,000
OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC	$35,000
THE SALVATION ARMY	$35,000
CHRISTIAN ACTIVITY CENTER	$30,000
SAINT LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY	$30,000
ST PATRICK CENTER	$30,000
FOOD OUTREACH INC	$25,000

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$8.2M · 127 repeat orgs$778k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Total granted

$8.2M

$556k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%

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.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterOther

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

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

SL
ST LOUIS
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%

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.

Mission St Louis

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

Community Improvement

St Louis Learning Disabilities Association

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

Human Services

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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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

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

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

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

St Louis Economic Development Partnership

Economic development.

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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

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

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

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

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Crisis Nursery; 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.

04the grantee network

116 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. 116 of the 164 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

115/116

Grantees still filing

74/116

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$4,678,511Human Services$1,748,500Education$1,360,500Food & Nutrition$442,500Health$353,500Youth Development$245,000Philanthropy$175,000

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.

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.

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

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

2024

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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

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home