Missouri · Private foundation
Potthoff Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $254k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2025
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 43
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Potthoff Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 | 35 | $254k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 35 | $227k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $217k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $264k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $203k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 43 | $183k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Greater St Louis Inc | $130,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Old Town Artisan Studio Inc | $64,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Backstoppers Inc Fka Policemen & Firemen Fund of St Louis | $55,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Kirkwood School District Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 10% |
| The Ranken-Jordan Home For Convalescent Crippled Children | $48,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra | $45,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Palm Springs Friends of Philharmonic | $40,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Forest Park Forever Inc | $37,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The German St Vincent Orphan Association | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Food Outreach Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($464k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Potthoff Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Clifford Willard Gaylord Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · William a Kerr Foundation
How this is measured
About Potthoff Family Foundation
- How much does Potthoff Family Foundation give?
- Potthoff Family Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $254,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 43 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Potthoff Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (22%), Education (17%), Health (12%).
- Who are Potthoff Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: United Way of Greater St Louis Inc ($130k), Old Town Artisan Studio Inc ($64k), The Backstoppers Inc Fka Policemen & Firemen Fund of St Louis ($55k).
- Does Potthoff Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Potthoff Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Potthoff Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, St Louis Community Foundation, Commerce Bancshares Foundation.
- Where is Potthoff Family Foundation based?
- Potthoff Family Foundation is based in MO.
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