· Private foundation
Potts 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 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 $10k13 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $44k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UVA Medical School | $17,000 |
| The Shipley School | $15,000 |
| University of Virginia | $12,000 |
| The Haverford School | $6,000 |
| Friends of Princeton Wrestling | $5,000 |
| Princeton University | $3,000 |
| Summit Foundation | $3,000 |
| Lakes Region Food Pantry | $3,000 |
| Princeton Wrestling Club | $3,000 |
| Mainline Arts Center | $3,000 |
| Garden Club of Philadelphia | $2,000 |
| Princeton Club of SW Florida | $2,000 |
| Community Foundation of Collier Cty | $1,000 |
| Fountain Valley School of Colorado | $1,000 |
| Home Base Kensington | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–18, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 12% of Potts Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 8 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SSSHIPLEY SCHOOL7× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +18%
The Trustees of Princeton University5× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +5%- HSHAVERFORD SCHOOL7× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- TBTHE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +60%
- FOFRIENDS OF PRINCETON WRESTINGone grant, 2017 · $1k
- FAFletcher Annual Fund - Tufts Univerone grant, 2024 · $1k
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.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
Sonoma charter school seeks to achieve academic excellence through engaged learning in a setting that involves students, teachers, and parents.
Hillbrook provides an extraordinary educational experience that fosters a love of learning in our students and helps them to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to achieve their highest individual potential in school and in life.…
Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.
Hampshire country school is a place of possibilities for high-ability, neurodiverse students enrolling in later elementary or middle school who have not found success in traditional educational environments. hampshire country school offers…
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
Rippowam Cisqua School creates independent thinkers, confident communicators, and engaged leaders who respect and contribute meaningfully to a diverse and increasingly complex global society.
Morristown beard school is an educational college preparatory school in grades 6 to 12 located in morristown, new jersey.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 29 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 SHIPLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds HAVERFORD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Main Line Art Center ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON WRESTLING CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds SQUAM LAKES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNTAIN VALLEY SCHOOL OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BUSH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LAKES REGION FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds EPIPHANY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SQUAM LAKES CONSERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MOORINGS PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SQUAM LAKES NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pamela and Laurence Tarica Foundation · The Schifrin Foundation Inc · Lovett-Woodsum Foundation Inc · The William Penn Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Boston Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Potts Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Potts Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
How this is measured
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