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Form 990-PFTax year 2025EIN 14-1347714

Potts Memorial Foundation

A private foundation in Hudson, NY. Its return for tax year 2025 lists 9 grants and $293,000 paid in grants.

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Tax year 2025 (period ending Dec 31, 2025), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

How to apply

Accepts applications

The return gives an application contact and rules, as below.

Contact
Co Donna Klose
PO Box 1015
Hudson, NY 12534
(518) 851-2292
[email protected]
Form and materials
Grant requests should be written and contain purpose of grant
Deadlines
None
Restrictions
Grants given to lung, T.B., blood-oxygen research and/or equipment only

Assets and giving by year

8 returns on file
Grants paid by tax year. The latest year is in blue.

  • Tax year 2025

    $293,000

    Grants listed
    9
    Assets, end of year
    $5,637,700

  • Tax year 2024

    $263,722

    Grants listed
    8
    Assets, end of year
    $5,436,695

  • Tax year 2023

    $212,310

    Grants listed
    6
    Assets, end of year
    $5,285,645

  • Tax year 2022

    $237,875

    Grants listed
    6
    Assets, end of year
    $5,309,579

  • Tax year 2021

    $256,381

    Grants listed
    7
    Assets, end of year
    $5,333,478

  • Tax year 2020

    $261,000

    Grants listed
    6
    Assets, end of year
    $5,285,490

  • Tax year 2019

    $260,986

    Grants listed
    7
    Assets, end of year
    $4,924,602

  • Tax year 2018

    $249,182

    Grants listed
    8
    Assets, end of year
    $5,054,665

Grants paid in 2025

9 grants, largest first

As listed on the return.

  1. Trustees of Tufts UniversityBoston, MA

    Research understanding regulation of calcium-mediated effects on mycobacterium tuberculosis growth.

    $50,000
  2. The Rockefeller UniversityNew York, NY

    Research pebble: sustaining and expanding a critical resource for crispr-based functional genomics in mycobacteria

    $50,000
  3. Weill Cornell Medical CollegeNew York, NY

    Research genic networks that prevent killing of mycobacterium tuberculosis by atp synthase inhibitors

    $37,000
  4. Trustees of Columbia UniversityNew York, NY

    Research early host biomarkers of clinical outcomes in MDR-TB and HIV co-infection using olink proteomics

    $36,000
  5. UMASS Chan Medical SchoolWorcester, MA

    Research understanding the role of high-frequency genetic variation in tuberculosis treatment failure

    $25,000
  6. Johns Hopkins University School of MedicineBaltimore, MD

    Researching the elimination of senescent cells with senolytic host-directed therapy reduces tuberculosis progression in susceptible mouse models.

    $25,000
  7. Trudeau InstituteSaranac Lake, NY

    Support the northeast regional world TB day conference.

    $25,000
  8. Washington University School of MedicineSt Louis, MO

    Research the noncanonical and rapid ifn-1 induction by neutrophils in response to mycobacterium tuberculosis.

    $25,000
  9. Weill Cornell Medical CollegeNew York, NY

    Research of post-tuberculosis lung disease in people living with HIV: matrix metalloproteinases and the age-rage axis

    $20,000

Where the money goes

By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.

  1. Education3 grants $111,00082% of the total
  2. Medical research1 grant $25,00018% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. New York5 grants $168,000
  2. Massachusetts2 grants $75,000
  3. Maryland1 grant $25,000
  4. Missouri1 grant $25,000

Officers, directors and trustees

10 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • Kathleen McDonough PHDPRESIDENT Hours 1Pay $0
  • Donna KloseSECRETARY Hours 1Pay $0
  • Walt BradyTREASURER Hours 1Pay $0
  • Donna O'Hare MDTRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0
  • Richard Gullot MDTRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0
  • Ananthakrishnan Ramani MDTRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0
  • Anthony Malanga MDTRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0
  • Martin Pavelka Jr PHDTRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0
  • Nancy PatzwahlTRUSTEE Hours 1Pay $0
  • John Chan MDVICE PRESIDENT Hours 1Pay $0

The return

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