· Private foundation
Tua Justin & Valere B Potter Fdn
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $2k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VOLUNTEER STATE HORSEMENS' FDN | $75,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | $50,000 |
| OZ ARTS INC | $35,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| HERITAGE FDN OF FRANKLINWILLIAMSON CNTY | $10,000 |
| CURREY INGRAM ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| THE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 97% of your 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- TVTHE VOLUNTEER STATE HORSEMEN'S FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $255k · revenue +71%
- VUVanderbilt University Medical Center2× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +35%
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE2× · 2022–2023 · $100k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- VSVOLUNTEER STATE HORSEMENTS FDNone grant, 2020 · $70k
- BOBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FUNone grant, 2020 · $62k
- WVWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -2%
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.
See Disclosure Above.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
To restore and protect clean water and healthy ecosystems for rivers in tennessee by employing scientific expertise and collaborative relationships to develop, promote, and support broad community stewardship and action.
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
To prepare a diverse student population for success in college and to live inspired and purposeful lives. our scholars will graduate with academic skills, social-emotional skills, and positive character strengths that rival the outcomes of…
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
The university school of jackson, a distinctive college preparatory school, seeks to instill a passion for academic excellence and lifelong learning so each student will reach his/her maximum potential.
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
University school of nashville models the best educational practices. in an environment that represents the cultural and ethnic composition of metropolian nashville. usn fosters each student's intellectual, artistic, and athletic…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Urologic Cancer Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 27 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds THE VOLUNTEER STATE HORSEMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OZ ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FRANKLIN PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds DAVIDSON COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds ANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UROLOGIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds HARDING ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CURREY INGRAM ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · Milton and Denice Johnson Family Foundation · Ebs Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Tua Justin & Valere B Potter Fdn 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.
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