· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $728k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMY | $140,000 |
| WEST TEXAS FOOD BANK | $120,000 |
| MIDLAND COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE SERVICES | $120,000 |
| SIBLEY ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER | $120,000 |
| THE SPRINGBOARD CENTER | $100,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF TEXAS | $90,000 |
| LILAH SMITH SAFE PLACE | $80,000 |
| SAFE PLACE | $80,000 |
| NORTHEAST MIDLAND CO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT | $75,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE PERMIAN BASIN INC | $60,000 |
| AMERICAN MACULAR DEGENERATION FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| FOOD PANTRY OF ALPINE INC | $58,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| APHASIA CENTER OF WEST TEXAS | $50,000 |
| HIGH SKY CHILDREN'S RANCH | $49,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +25% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 8 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k 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
- MCMIDLAND COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE SERVICES INC5× · 2020–2025 · $640k · revenue +17%
- WTWEST TEXAS FOOD BANK6× · 2020–2025 · $640k · revenue +16%
- TSTHE SPRINGBOARD CENTER5× · 2020–2025 · $410k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- AFALPINE FOOD BANKone grant, 2022 · $96k
- LSLILAH SMITH SAFE HOUSEone grant, 2023 · $70k
- TSThe Salvation Army - Haitian Reliefone grant, 2018 · $50k
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.
The organization operates an adult day care facility in midland, texas which offers a multi-disciplinary, comprehensive health and activity program for frail and impaired elderly and disabled residents.
The High Plains Food Bank exists to help solve the issue of hunger and food insecurity in the Texas Panhandle.
To provide rehabilitation services to every child in the permian basin with a neurologic or orthopedic need at little or no cost.
Operate a non-profit medical clinic exclusively for charitable purposes to provide medical health services to uninsured and low income adults in the Abilene area.
Providing mental healthcare to restore hope and healing
To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.
Meals on Wheels of Odessa enables people to live with dignity by offering community support and sustenance through coordinated services and enable older adults to live in their own homes safely and independently as long as they are able.
Permian basin animal advocates strives to educate and help the public with spay and neuter while also rescuing abandoned or unwanted animals and finding them forever homes.
To collect, preserve, catalog and exhibit scientific, geological and engineering data gathered by the petroleum industry - to be a working library for use by industry professionals, educators, students and other members of the interested…
To provide high quality, individualized care and community inclusion for the people we serve so they can have full and happy lives.
The organization assists qualified first time homebuyers with credit report review, counseling, and down payment assistance to be "mortgage ready" in the puchase of their first home. in partnership with the city of midland, the…
Improving lives by providing exceptional and compassionate therapy services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freedom Center Texas and the most unlike its peers is Alpine Humane Society. 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 41 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 69 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 FREEDOM CENTER TEXAS ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE SPRINGBOARD CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MACULAR DEGENERATION GOEHRING ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE PERMIAN BASIN INC ↗
- Who funds MARATHON PUBLIC LIBRARY AND HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF MIDLAND INC ↗
- Who funds CENTERS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR LIFE MIDLAND INC ↗
- Who funds APHASIA CENTER OF WEST TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD PANTRY OF ALPINE ↗
- Who funds ARCHWAY OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds Midland Rape Crisis Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Alpine Public Library Association Inc ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COALITION OF THE PERMIAN BASIN ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CRISIS CENTER OF THE BIG BEND INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CHILDREN'S MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds CASA DE AMIGOS OF MIDLAND TEXASINC ↗
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: 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
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 Potts and Sibley 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.
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