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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.

$182k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$10MRecreation & Sports$350kYouth Development$200kHealth$160kArts & Culture$110kEducation$54kHousing & Shelter$20kReligion$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $2k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL$1,000
CURREY INGRAM ACADEMY$1,000
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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIF: $9.4M → 16%TENNESSEE SOCIETY OF CPAS: $5k → 4%DAVIDSON COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD INC: $20k → 14%WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FDN: $50k → 19%FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIF: $934k → 16%CURREY INGRAM ACADEMY: $1k → 4%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA MIDDLE TN: $50k → 14%VOLUNTEER STATE HORSEMENS' FDN: $75k → 4%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - MIDDLE TENNESSEE COUNCIL: $50k → 14%VOLUNTEER STATE HORSEMENS FOUNDATN: $70k → 4%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - MIDDLE TENNESSEE COUNCIL: $50k → 14%VOLUNTEER STATE HORSEMEN'S FOUNDATION: $60k → 4%MIDDLE TENNESSEE COUNCIL OF BOY SCO: $20k → 14%VOLUNTEER STATE HORSEMEN'S FOUNDATION: $50k → 4%OZ ARTS NASHVILLE: $20k → 14%HERITAGE FDN OF FRANKLINWILLIAMSON CNTY: $10k → 4%EASTER SEAL SOCIETY OF TENNESSEE: $10k → 14%HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF FRANKLINWILLIAMSON CNTY: $10k → 4%UROLOGIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%THE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL: $1k → 14%VANDERBILT MEDICAL CENTER: $20k → 14%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $30k → 14%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $15k → 14%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $10k → 14%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $10k → 14%BELLE MEADE PLANTATION: $10k → 14%HARDING ACADEMY: $2k → 14%OZ ARTS INC: $35k → 14%OZ ARTS NASHVILLE: $25k → 14%VOLUNTEER STATE HORSEMENTS FDN: $70k → 14%NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 14%ANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%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.
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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$540k · 6 repeat orgs$451k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
17

Total granted

$540k
$414k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+27%

Still filing today

50%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • TV
    THE VOLUNTEER STATE HORSEMEN'S FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $255k · revenue +71%
  • VU
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    2× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +35%
  • BS
    BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE
    2× · 2022–2023 · $100k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • VS
    VOLUNTEER STATE HORSEMENTS FDN
    one grant, 2020 · $70k
  • BO
    BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FUN
    one grant, 2020 · $62k
  • WV
    WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -2%
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
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
2
Furman University

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.

Education
3
Nashville Public Radio

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.

Arts & Culture
4
Methodist Medical Center

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.

Health
5
Harpeth Conservancy

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.

Environment
6
University of Virginia Foundation

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…

Education
7
Valor Collegiate Academies

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…

Education
8
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
9
University School of Jackson

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.

Education
10
Cumberland Medical Center

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.

Health
11
University School of Nashville

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…

Education
12
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission; 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.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
14/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $10,368,470 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDTHE VOLUNTEER STATE HORSEMEN'S FOUNDATION: $255,000 · OtherVOLUNTEER STATE HORSEMENTS FDN: $70,000 · OtherBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FUN: $62,393 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA MIDDLE TN: $50,000 · OtherOZ ARTS NASHVILLE: $45,000 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $30,000 · Other+8 more: $120,000 · OtherVanderbilt University Medical Center: $100,000 · HealthDAVIDSON COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD INC: $20,000 · HealthEASTER SEALS TENNESSEE INC: $10,000 · HealthBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · EducationHARDING ACADEMY: $2,000 · Education+2 more: $2,000 · EducationOZ ARTS INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF FRANKLIN PARKS INC: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Community Improvement$10,368,470Other$632,393Health$130,000Youth Development$100,000Education$54,000Arts & Culture$45,000Recreation & Sports$25,000Housing & Shelter$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $10,368,470 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VOLUNTEER STATE HORSEMEN'S FOUNDATION: $255,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 560 MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOZ ARTS INC: $35,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF FRANKLIN PARKS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetDAVIDSON COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD INC: $20,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetHabitat for Humanity: $15,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetANDREW JACKSON FOUNDATION FKA LADIES' HERMITAGE ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUROLOGIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetEASTER SEALS TENNESSEE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARDING ACADEMY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCURREY INGRAM ACADEMY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL: $1,000 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.

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.

The Community Foundat…The Wade-Buntin Famil…Milton and Denice Joh…Ebs FoundationMemorial Foundation I…Raymond James Charita…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…
The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN16.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Tua Justin & Valere B Potter Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tua Justin & Valere B Potter Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 Tua Justin & Valere B Potter Fdn?

    Find your warmest path to Tua Justin & Valere B Potter Fdn 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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