· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $104k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS | $30,000 |
| LUTHERAN NORTH HIGH SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| PALM SPRINGS FRIENDS OF PHILHARMONIC | $20,000 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVSERISTY DEPT OF CARDIOLOGY | $10,000 |
| ST LOUIS SYMPHONY | $10,000 |
| OLD TOWN ARTISAN STUDIO | $10,000 |
| forest park forever | $10,000 |
| ST LOUIS PUBLIC RADIO | $10,000 |
| CHANNEL 9 PBS | $10,000 |
| ST LOUIS ZOO | $10,000 |
| RANKEN JORDAN HOME | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| TRINITY LUTHERAN CENTER | $5,000 |
| New Music Circle | $5,000 |
| kirk care | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 10 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- OTOLD TOWN ARTISAN STUDIO INC6× · 2020–2025 · $64k · revenue +29%
- TBTHE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS6× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +49%
- TRThe Ranken-Jordan Home For Convalescent Crippled Children6× · 2020–2025 · $48k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- KSKIRKWOOD SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +143%
- HKHISTORIC KIRKWOOD TRAIN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
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…
To foster and amplify community-led innovations through partnerships resulting in radical system changes that create equitable health outcomes.
The saint louis zoo association was established to support and enhance the saint louis zoo by providing facilities, funds, and advice. the association provides direct financial support to the zoo for renovations, new facilities, programs,…
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
Economic development.
Behavioral Health Network is a collaborative effort of providers working together to improve our community by leading behavioral health planning and coordination.
To eliminate underlying causes of health inequities, transform systems and enable individuals and communities to thrive
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Jefferson national parks association provides quality educational products and related services that enhance public understanding and appreciation of america's national parks, public lands and historic places.
Jewish federation of st. louis mobilizes the jewish community and its human and financial resources to preserve and enhance jewish life in st. louis, in israel and around the world.
The missouri historical society (mhs) is a missouri pro forma decree, not-for-profit corporation whose primary functions are educational and community programs; collections and conservation; library and research; and exhibitions.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees and the most unlike its peers is Dream Builders 4 Equity. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
30 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. 30 of the 57 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds OLD TOWN ARTISAN STUDIO INC ↗
- Who funds THE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds KIRKWOOD SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Ranken-Jordan Home For Convalescent Crippled Children ↗
- Who funds SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS FRIENDS OF PHILHARMONIC ↗
- Who funds Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
- Who funds The German St Vincent Orphan Association ↗
- Who funds FOOD OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI St Louis ↗
- Who funds ST PATRICK CENTER ↗
- Who funds KIRK CARE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MUSIC CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CHILDRENS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST MISSOURI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATION USO OF MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds TRAILNET INC ↗
- Who funds DREAM BUILDERS 4 EQUITY ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION OF MISSOURI ↗
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.
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
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 Potthoff Family 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.
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.