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David G Patterson 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.

$50k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Health$146kRecreation & Sports$65kFood & Nutrition$50kEducation$39kPublic Safety & Disaster$30kReligion$20kCommunity Improvement$16kHousing & Shelter$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$787k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TIOGA COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR COMM HEALTH$50,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HAVEN OF TIOGA COUNTY: $2k → 12%TIOGA COUNTY HOMELESS INITIATIVE: $3k → 12%TIOGA COUNTY HOMELESS INITIATIVE: $3k → 12%TIOGA COUNTY HOMELESS INITIATIVE: $2k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$317k · 18 repeat orgs$111k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
20

Total granted

$317k
$111k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+13%

Still filing today

61%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Public Safety & DisasterEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • TC
    TIOGA COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH
    4× · 2020–2025 · $133k · revenue +16%
  • TC
    TIOGA COUNTY AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2018–2022 · $34k · revenue +47%
  • WF
    WELLSBORO FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2019–2022 · $14k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • TC
    TIOGA COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR
    one grant, 2018 · $60k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
  • UW
    UPMC Wellsboro
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +11%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Tidioute Volunteer Fire Department

The Tidioute Volunteer Fire Department provides both fire and ambulance response services in the area of Tidioute, Pennsylvania.

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Wesleyville Hose Company No 1

Provide Firefighting and ambulance service to Wesleville Borough

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3
Western Salisbury Volunteer Fire Company

The western salisbury fire department is an all-volunteer service that protects the western section of salisbury township, in lehigh county, pennsylvania.

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Penn Volunteer Fire Department

All volunteer fire department provides fire and rescue services to the surrounding communities.

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5
North Penn Volunteer Fire Company

To provide protection and emergency medical services to residents of north wales borough, lower gwynedd township, upper gwynedd township and surrounding communities.

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6
Hopewell Fire Department

Protecting hopewell from fires.

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7
Tamaqua Community Ambulance

Provider of Emergency Ambulance Services

Health
8
Pocono Mountain Regional Emergency Medical Services

Provide emergency ambulance services

Health
9
Wilpen Fire Co of Ligonier Township

Provide fire protection and rescue services to the community

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Hereford Volunteer Fire Company Inc

Volunteer fire fighting

Health
11
Pittston Township Ambulance Association

Provide quality emergency medical service and ambulance service to the pittston township community in luzerne county pennsylvania

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12
East Taylor Township Vol Fire Co

To provide ems services to local citizens

Public Safety & Disaster

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wellsboro Fire Department and the most unlike its peers is Galeton Public Library. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number13%0%<5yr11%5%5–10yr20%27%10–20yr19%36%20–35yr17%27%35–55yr20%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value13%0%<5yr11%0%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr19%72%20–35yr17%13%35–55yr20%1%55yr+

The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 4% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/23
the rest of the field
4%20/507

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.

04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TIOGA COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR — $60,000 · OtherTIOGA COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FORFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF WELLSBORO — $27,000 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF WELLSBOROTRINITY LUTHERAN SCHOOL — $11,750 · OtherTRINITY LUTHERAN SCHOOLGALETON FOOD PANTRY — $11,500 · OtherGALETON FOOD PANTRYIndividual grant recipient — $8,000 · OtherWELLSBORO AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $7,340 · Other+17 more — $50,950 · Other+17 moreTIOGA COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH — $132,500 · EducationTIOGA COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR COMMUNITY H…WELLSBORO AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $13,800 · EducationWELLSBORO AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATIONGALETON PUBLIC LIBRARY — $8,000 · EducationTIOGA COUNTY AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION — $33,650 · Community ImprovementWELLSBORO FOUNDATION INC — $14,000 · Arts & CultureENDLESS MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL INC — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $500 · Arts & CultureGALE HOSE CO NO 1 INC — $7,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTRI TOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPAN — $5,000 · Public Safety & DisasterCOUDERSPORT VOLUNTEER AMBULANC — $3,000 · Public Safety & DisasterLAWRENCEVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT — $3,000 · Public Safety & DisasterSusquehanna Health Foundation — $6,500 · HealthUPMC Wellsboro — $5,000 · HealthTIOGA COUNTY HOMELESS INITIATIVE — $7,500 · Human ServicesHAVEN OF TIOGA COUNTY — $2,000 · Human Services
Other$176,540Education$154,300Community Improvement$33,650Arts & Culture$24,500Public Safety & Disaster$18,000Health$11,500Human Services$9,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTIOGA COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH — $132,500 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetTIOGA COUNTY AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION — $33,650 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetWELLSBORO FOUNDATION INC — $14,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetWELLSBORO AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $13,800 over 3y, 18% of budgetENDLESS MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL INC — $10,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetGALETON PUBLIC LIBRARY — $8,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetTIOGA COUNTY HOMELESS INITIATIVE — $7,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetGALE HOSE CO NO 1 INC — $7,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetSusquehanna Health Foundation — $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWELLSBORO FIRE DEPARTMENT — $5,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetWELLSBORO AREA FOOD PANTRY — $5,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetWELLSBORO SHARED HOMES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTRI TOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPAN — $5,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetCOUDERSPORT VOLUNTEER AMBULANC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLAWRENCEVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWELLSBORO AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $2,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHIS THOUSAND HILLS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHAVEN OF TIOGA COUNTY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMILL COVE INC — $500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHAMILTON GIBSON PRODUCTIONS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Horace B Packer Found…Charles Knox & Margar…Ernest L & Mildred Ro…Earl W and Ina G Tabo…Dunham Family Foundat…Deerfield Charitable …Lutes Foundation Co F…Northwest Charitable …Albert S & Mary Guile…First Community Found…Amazonsmile Foundation
Horace B Packer Foundation IncPA32.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Horace B Packer Foundation Inc · Charles Knox & Margaret C Etner Foundation · Ernest L & Mildred Roberts Sweet Foundation · Earl W and Ina G Tabor Foundation · Dunham Family Foundation · Deerfield Charitable Trust · Lutes Foundation Co First Citizens Community · Northwest Charitable Foundation · Albert S & Mary Guiles Krieger Foundation · First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 David G Patterson 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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