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Potts Memorial Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$293k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$1.7MEducation$606k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $193k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRUSTEES OF TUFTS UNIVERSITY$50,000
THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY$50,000
WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE$37,000
TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$36,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$25,000
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$25,000
TRUDEAU INSTITUTE$25,000
UMASS CHAN MEDICAL SCHOOL$25,000
WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $30k → 11%TRUSTEES OF TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $50k → 16%CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PHARMACY: $25k → 10%UNIVERSITY ROCHESTER: $28k → 14%ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE DEPT OF IMMUNOLOGY & MICROBIAL DISEASE: $33k → 14%TRUDEAU INSTITUTE: $50k → 16%NYU GROSSMAN MEDICINE: $25k → 17%ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $50k → 28%WASHINGTON UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $52k → 21%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $40k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $50k → 27%NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $37k → 12%RUTGERS NJ MEDICAL SCHOOL PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $48k → 16%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $25k → 19%TRUSTEES OF TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $30k → 16%HEALTH RESEARCH INC: $54k → 14%TRUDEAU INSTITUTE: $30k → 16%WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $62k → 17%ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $50k → 28%WASHINGTON UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $50k → 21%NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $25k → 12%RUTGERS NJ MEDICAL SCHOOL PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $25k → 16%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $25k → 19%TRUDEAU INSTITUTE: $25k → 16%WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $60k → 17%ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $45k → 28%WASHINGTON UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $25k → 21%NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $25k → 12%JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE: $48k → 19%TRUDEAU INSTITUTE: $25k → 16%WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $59k → 17%ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $35k → 28%WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $53k → 17%WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE NY PRESBYTERIAN DIV OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE: $50k → 17%WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $50k → 17%WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $46k → 17%WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $37k → 17%WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE DEPT OF MICROBIOLOGY & IMMUNOLOGY: $70k → 17%WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL: $54k → 17%THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $50k → 17%THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $50k → 17%THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $50k → 17%THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $50k → 17%THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $50k → 17%WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE: $50k → 17%WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL: $30k → 17%WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL: $30k → 17%TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $36k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
MD
NC
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 12 repeat orgs$499k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
13

Total granted

$1.7M
$474k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+8%

Still filing today

50%
15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2025 · $152k · revenue +76%
  • NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH
    3× · 2018–2021 · $87k · revenue +35%
  • HR
    HEALTH RESEARCH INC
    3× · 2018–2024 · $83k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • WC
    WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE DEPT OF MICROBIOLOGY & IMMUNOLOGY
    one grant, 2020 · $70k
  • WC
    WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE NY PRESBYTERIAN DIV OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
Thomas Jefferson University

Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…

Education
3
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
4
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
5
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
6
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
7
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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8
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
9
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
10
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
11
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
12
Philadelphia University

The organization is an affiliate within thomas jefferson university/jefferson health; a comprehensive professional university and tax-exempt integrated healthcare delivery system ("system"), with a tripartite mission of education, research…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Rockefeller University; the most unlike its peers is Health Research Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE: $387,006 · OtherWEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGEALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE: $205,000 · OtherALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINEWeill Medical College of Cornell Univers: $128,543 · OtherWeill Medical College of Cornell UniversTRUSTEES OF TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $80,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF TUFTS UNIVERSITYRUTGERS NJ MEDICAL SCHOOL PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $72,560 · OtherRUTGERS NJ MEDICAL SCHOOL PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTEWEILL CORNELL MEDICINE DEPT OF MICROBIOLOGY & IMMUNOLOGY: $70,000 · OtherWEILL CORNELL MEDICINE NY PRESBYTERIAN DIV OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE: $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: $50,000 · OtherWEILL CORNELL MEDICINE: $50,000 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE: $48,432 · Other+7 more: $206,419 · Other+7 moreTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $275,000 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITYWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $152,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $79,202 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIV…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $70,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY+1 more: $19,681 · EducationTRUDEAU INSTITUTE INC: $130,000 · HealthTRUDEAU INSTITUTE …NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $87,000 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH HE…HEALTH RESEARCH INC: $83,075 · HealthHEALTH RESEARCH IN…COLUMBIA-GREENE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $67,500 · HealthCOLUMBIA-GREENE HO…+1 more: $4,000 · Health
Other$1,347,960Education$595,883Health$371,575

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $275,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $152,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUDEAU INSTITUTE INC: $130,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $87,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH RESEARCH INC: $83,075 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $79,202 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $19,681 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Columbia Memorial Hospital: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TRUDEAU INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds HEALTH RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBIA-GREENE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
  • Who funds The Columbia Memorial Hospital ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Potts Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Potts Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Potts Memorial Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Potts Memorial Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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