Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Esther L Soder Patton Fund
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.
- $58k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,443
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $6,443
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 10
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Esther L Soder Patton Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $58k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $55k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $51k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $65k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $58k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $57k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $50k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $51k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $47,431 | 8 | 0% |
| City Mission of the Evangelical Churches of Erie | $47,431 | 8 | 0% |
| Erie Zoological Society | $47,431 | 8 | 0% |
| The Sight Center of Northwest Pennsylvania | $47,430 | 8 | 1% |
| Presque Isle Audubon Society | $47,430 | 8 | 9% |
| The Salvation Army | $47,430 | 8 | n/a |
| Lutheran Home for the Aged | $3,031 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($158k), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Erie Community Foundation
How this is measured
About Esther L Soder Patton Fund
- How much does Esther L Soder Patton Fund give?
- Esther L Soder Patton Fund reported 9 grants totaling $57,987 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Esther L Soder Patton Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (32%), Human Services (26%), Environment (11%).
- Who are Esther L Soder Patton Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($47k), City Mission of the Evangelical Churches of Erie ($47k), Erie Zoological Society ($47k).
- Does Esther L Soder Patton Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Esther L Soder Patton Fund 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 Esther L Soder Patton Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Erie Community Foundation.
- Where is Esther L Soder Patton Fund based?
- Esther L Soder Patton Fund is based in PA.
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