New York · Private foundation
Nicholas Patterson Perpetual Fund
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.
- $5k
- Granted FY2023
- 5
- Grants FY2023
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 80%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2023
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $2,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 32
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 1
- Total assets, FY2023
- $3k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 80% of the organizations Nicholas Patterson Perpetual Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 90% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 5 | $5k | 80% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $42k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $51k | 70% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $55k | 68% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $52k | 65% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $73k | 74% |
| FY2017 | 32 | $62k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canopy of Neighbors Inc | $39,000 | 3 | 9% |
| Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society | $10,500 | 2 | 0% |
| United Way of Buffalo and Erie County | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Buffalo Prep Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Providence Farm Collective Corp | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Via Visually Impaired Advancement | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Jacobs Institute Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Buffalo Maritime Center Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 100 recipients with no EIN on record ($262k), 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · The Baird Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · Simple Gifts Fund · The Frank G Raichle Foundation · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · First Niagara Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The Joseph and Anna Gartner Foundation · Paul & Helen Ellis Charitable Trust Trubee Wealth Advisors
How this is measured
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About Nicholas Patterson Perpetual Fund
- How much does Nicholas Patterson Perpetual Fund give?
- Nicholas Patterson Perpetual Fund reported 5 grants totaling $5,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 32 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Nicholas Patterson Perpetual Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (74%), Human Services (11%), Arts & Culture (4%).
- Who are Nicholas Patterson Perpetual Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Canopy of Neighbors Inc ($39k), Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society ($11k), United Way of Buffalo and Erie County ($10k).
- Does Nicholas Patterson Perpetual Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Nicholas Patterson Perpetual 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 Nicholas Patterson Perpetual Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Margaret L Wendt Foundation, The Baird Foundation, The Western New York Foundation.
- Where is Nicholas Patterson Perpetual Fund based?
- Nicholas Patterson Perpetual Fund is based in NY.
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