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Paddington Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$21k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
3
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$15,288
Organizations funded a year
3 to 35
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Paddington Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20233$21k0%
FY202215$8k13%
FY20218$7k50%
FY202026$21k42%
FY201935$24kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Education$28kArts & Culture$17kHuman Services$17kReligion$6kHealth$4kRecreation & Sports$4kAnimals$425Food & Nutrition$350Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OH
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Neighborhood Academy$23,50040%
Vintage Inc$16,28821%
Pittsburgh Symphony Inc$12,50030%
St Andrews Episcopal Church$5,1001n/a
Aspinwall Riverfront Park Inc$4,00020%
St Margaret Foundation$2,00030%
Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania$1,87910%
Pittsburgh Public Theater Corporation$1,00010%
American Cancer Society Inc$63030%
1891 Fredonia Opera House Inc$60020%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($9k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Paddington Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Neighborhood Academy: $23,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetVintage Inc: $16,288 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPittsburgh Symphony Inc: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAspinwall Riverfront Park Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSt Margaret Foundation: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHistorical Society of Western Pennsylvania: $1,879 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPittsburgh Public Theater Corporation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $630 over 3y, 0.0% of budget1891 Fredonia Opera House Inc: $600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWqed Multimedia: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $503 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Pittsburgh: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLight of Life Ministries Inc: $290 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Home of Pittsburgh: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Institute: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMarch of Dimes Inc: $120 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Pennsylvania Inc: $118 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Foundation for the Blind Inc: $70 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Shriners' Hospital for Children: $60 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Farm Animal Care: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare: $44 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $35 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Shore Animal League America Inc: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Animal Nations Dba Redrover: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Kidney Fund Inc: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

Hillman Family FoundationsPA19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hillman Family Foundations · The Burke Family Foundation · The Burke Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · The Fine Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Richard and Dana Green Philanthropic Foundation · Giant Eagle Foundation · Allegheny Foundation · The Buhl Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Paddington Foundation

How much does Paddington Foundation give?
Paddington Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $20,788 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 35 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Paddington Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (35%), Arts & Culture (22%), Human Services (21%).
Who are Paddington Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2023: The Neighborhood Academy ($24k), Vintage Inc ($16k), Pittsburgh Symphony Inc ($13k).
Does Paddington Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Paddington Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Paddington Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hillman Family Foundations, The Burke Family Foundation, The Burke Foundation.
Where is Paddington Foundation based?
Paddington Foundation is based in PA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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