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The Allen and Ruth Potts Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$900
Granted FY2022
4
Grants FY2022
4
Organizations funded FY2022
25%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$325
Largest grant, FY2022
$325
Organizations funded a year
4 to 26
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
4
Total assets, FY2022
$82k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 25% of the organizations The Allen and Ruth Potts Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22
HealthAnimalsCrime & LegalHuman ServicesPublic BenefitPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20224$90025%
FY202126$40k50%
FY202010$24k40%
FY201921$162k14%
FY201819$153k32%
FY201721$185kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Civil Rights$367kHealth$100kReligion$30kInternational$19kEducation$16kEnvironment$13kAnimals$13kPhilanthropy$7kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
SD
IN
PA
CA
NE
VA
MD
AZ
DC
AL
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 25 grantees

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($59k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Allen and Ruth Potts Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSaint John's Cancer Institute: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSaint John's Health Center Foundation: $30,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMount Saint Mary's University: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVenice Family Clinic: $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $3,675 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBest Friends Animal Society: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels Inc: $1,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTheodore Payne Foundation for Wild Flowers and Native Plants Inc: $875 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Inc: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles Regional Food Bank: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels West: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Fund for Animal Welfare Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFcnl Education Fund: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way Inc: $225 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Arbor Day Foundation: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

California Community FoundationCA13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Allen and Ruth Potts Foundation

How much does The Allen and Ruth Potts Foundation give?
The Allen and Ruth Potts Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $900 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does The Allen and Ruth Potts Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Civil Rights (64%), Health (17%), Religion (5%).
Who are The Allen and Ruth Potts Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: American Friends Service Committee ($365k), Saint John's Cancer Institute ($50k), Saint John's Health Center Foundation ($30k).
Does The Allen and Ruth Potts Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Allen and Ruth Potts Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Allen and Ruth Potts Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is The Allen and Ruth Potts Foundation based?
The Allen and Ruth Potts Foundation is based in CA.

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 50 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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