· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $728k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMY | $140,000 |
| SIBLEY ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER | $120,000 |
| WEST TEXAS FOOD BANK | $120,000 |
| MIDLAND COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE SERVICES | $120,000 |
| THE SPRINGBOARD CENTER | $100,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF TEXAS | $90,000 |
| SAFE PLACE | $80,000 |
| LILAH SMITH SAFE PLACE | $80,000 |
| NORTHEAST MIDLAND CO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT | $75,000 |
| AMERICAN MACULAR DEGENERATION FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE PERMIAN BASIN INC | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MCMIDLAND COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE SERVICES INC5× · 2020–2025 · $640k · revenue +17%
- WTWEST TEXAS FOOD BANK6× · 2020–2025 · $640k · revenue +5%
- TSTHE SPRINGBOARD CENTER5× · 2020–2025 · $410k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- AFALPINE FOOD BANKone grant, 2022 · $96k
- LSLILAH SMITH SAFE HOUSEone grant, 2023 · $70k
- NFNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -35%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
36 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. 36 of the 69 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Potts and Sibley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Potts and Sibley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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