· Private foundation
Ron and Mary Pott 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of RON AND MARY POTT FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $108k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAST - CO THE FAST BOARD | $15,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $7,000 |
| DAY SPRINGS MINISTRIES | $6,000 |
| LA PUENTA HOME INC | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY TABLE | $5,000 |
| ANGELMAN SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| WEDONTWASTE INC | $5,000 |
| ALS ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| THE ACTION CENTER | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| GRAND FRIENDS INC | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF | $4,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES | $4,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $102k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
42 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE7× · 2017–2025 · $47k · revenue +134%
- UPURBAN PEAK DENVER7× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +239%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches5× · 2021–2025 · $33k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- CECONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLORADOgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +104%
- DSDAY SPRINGS MINISTRIESone grant, 2018 · $5k
- HFHOLY FAMILY PARISH FOOD BANKone grant, 2018 · $1k
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.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…
Metro caring works with our community to meet people's immediate need for nutritious food while building a movement to address the root causes of hunger. (continued on sch o)metro caring, in partnership with our community, understands that…
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Medical teams international is a christian humanitarian relief agency focused on providing life-saving medical care for people in crisis.
Because of our love for God, we extend his mercy as we strive to empower and improve the lives of unsheltered adults in Pueblo, CO, through provisions of food, shelter and navigational support services.
To encircle those facing advanced illness with unprecedented levels of comfort, compassion, and expertise.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Sierras Race Against Meningitis. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 46 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 SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds URBAN PEAK DENVER ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds THE ARVADA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK dba COMMUNITY TABLE ↗
- Who funds ANGELMAN SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFCO ACTION CENTER INC THE ACTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds WEDONTWASTE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds DAYSPRING MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds LA PUENTE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANCER LEAGUE OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL HEART ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds WEECYCLE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHT UP TO LIVE INC ↗
- Who funds CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds ELDERHEART INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS PASSPORT TO HOPE ↗
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Trailhead Institute · Anschutz Family Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Ron and Mary Pott Family 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.