Texas · Private foundation
Potts and Sibley 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.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $140,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $33M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Potts and Sibley Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k 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 | 40 | $1.9M | 20% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $1.7M | 16% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $1.5M | 7% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $2.6M | 16% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $345k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $1.2M | 60% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $550k | 63% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $579k | 63% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freedom Center Texas | $655,000 | 9 | 32% |
| Midland Community Healthcare Services Inc | $640,000 | 5 | 1% |
| West Texas Food Bank | $640,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Springboard Center | $410,000 | 5 | 2% |
| American Macular Degeneration Goehring | $375,000 | 7 | 8% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Permian Basin Inc | $305,000 | 6 | 15% |
| Marathon Public Library and History Museum | $237,500 | 5 | 19% |
| High Sky Childrens Ranch Inc | $237,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Hospice of Midland Inc | $231,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Centers for Children and Families Inc | $220,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Potts and Sibley Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Permian Basin Area Foundation · Abell-Hanger Foundation · Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation · Beal Foundation · Fmh Foundation · Yarborough Foundation · Pevehouse Family Foundation · Scharbauer Foundation Inc · Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust · Warren Charitable Foundation · The Henry Foundation · The Fasken Foundation
How this is measured
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About Potts and Sibley Foundation
- How much does Potts and Sibley Foundation give?
- Potts and Sibley Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $1,935,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Potts and Sibley Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (33%), Human Services (21%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
- Who are Potts and Sibley Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Freedom Center Texas ($655k), Midland Community Healthcare Services Inc ($640k), West Texas Food Bank ($640k).
- Does Potts and Sibley Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Potts and Sibley 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 Potts and Sibley Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Permian Basin Area Foundation, Abell-Hanger Foundation, Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Potts and Sibley Foundation based?
- Potts and Sibley Foundation is based in TX.
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