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Joseph B Patterson Foundation

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.

$7k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$37kEducation$16kReligion$8kAnimals$6kHousing & Shelter$3kFood & Nutrition$2kPhilanthropy$2kHuman Services$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,200
Median grant
4
States reached
$176k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOEY'S FOUNDATION$4,000
CORPUS CHRISTI CHURCH$1,500
BERGEN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$1,200
UFCW LOCAL 324$300
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$25
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ABILITY FIRST: $500 → 14%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $250 → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $1k → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $500 → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $500 → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $500 → 14%ABILITY FIRST: $500 → 14%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$73k · 17 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
15

Total granted

$73k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+42%

Still filing today

65%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationCrime & LegalPhilanthropyCommunity 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

  • JR
    JOSEPH ROBERT SHAW FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $25k · revenue +21%
  • SM
    SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2023 · $7k · revenue +151%
  • BI
    BIGHORN INSTITUTE
    3× · 2017–2020 · $6k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • NM
    NAVY MARINE CORPS PROUD FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +133%
  • AV
    Antelope Valley Medical Center Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -13%
  • UH
    UCLA HEALTH SOUND BODY SOUND MIND
    one grant, 2018 · $750

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
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
2
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
3
Usc Care Medical Group Inc

To promote health by engaging in the practice of medicine for patients of hospitals affiliated with the university of southern california keck school of medicine and elsewhere. to provide medical care to the sick and injured who may come…

Health
4
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
5
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
6
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

8
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

9
Western Md Health Sys Foundation

To coordinate with UPMC Western Maryland to enhance health care in the service area and also operate for the charitable and educational purposes of supporting UPMC Western Maryland.

Health
10
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
11
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Northern California Institute for Research and Education Inc

To improve the health and well-being of veterans and the general public by supporting a world-class biomedical research program conducted by ucsf faculty at the san francisco veterans affairs health care system.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Integris Health Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Farrah Fawcett Foundation. 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 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%30%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%46%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr16%6%20–35yr13%8%35–55yr16%16%55yr+

The field is 22% 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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/24
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,541

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

22 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 32 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)
22/22
Grantees still filing
15/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JOSEPH ROBERT SHAW FOUNDATION INC — $24,800 · HealthJOSEPH ROBERT SHAW FOUNDATION INCSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $6,500 · HealthSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONINTEGRIS Health Foundation Inc — $2,700 · HealthINTEGRIS Health Foundation Inc+2 more — $1,150 · HealthBERGEN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL — $10,300 · OtherBERGEN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLCORPUS CHRISTI CHURCH — $8,250 · OtherCORPUS CHRISTI CHURCHUFCW LOCAL 324 — $2,565 · OtherUFCW LOCAL 324STATER BROTHERS CHARITIES — $1,900 · OtherSTATER BROTHERS CHARITIESIndividual grant recipient — $1,235 · Other+9 more — $3,965 · Other+9 moreBIGHORN INSTITUTE — $5,650 · AnimalsYoung Eisner Scholars — $2,500 · Human ServicesABILITYFIRST — $1,000 · Human ServicesSHARE INC — $700 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $450 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC — $250 · Human ServicesUFCW INLAND EMPIRE CHARITY FOUNDATION — $2,400 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $400 · EducationTHE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $200 · EducationNAVY MARINE CORPS PROUD FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · PhilanthropyTHE FARRAH FAWCETT FOUNDATION — $500 · PhilanthropyTHOMAS MORE SOCIETY — $700 · Crime & LegalPIPE HITTER FOUNDATION INC — $500 · Crime & Legal
Health$35,150Other$28,215Animals$5,650Human Services$4,900Education$3,000Philanthropy$1,500Crime & Legal$1,200

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJOSEPH ROBERT SHAW FOUNDATION INC — $24,800 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBIGHORN INSTITUTE — $5,650 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetINTEGRIS Health Foundation Inc — $2,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Eisner Scholars — $2,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUFCW INLAND EMPIRE CHARITY FOUNDATION — $2,400 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetABILITYFIRST — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY MARINE CORPS PROUD FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAntelope Valley Medical Center Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHOMAS MORE SOCIETY — $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE INC — $700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWESTSIDE COALITION — $600 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPIPE HITTER FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FARRAH FAWCETT FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

American Endowment FoundationOH8.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Joseph B 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 32 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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