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Patrick J Durkin Charitable 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.

$132k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
43%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$32,804
Organizations funded a year
3 to 7
FY2022 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$170k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 43% of the organizations Patrick J Durkin Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther
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
FY2025still arriving12$132k42%
FY20247$124k43%
FY20234$93k50%
FY20223$89kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Education$354kInternational$55kReligion$10kHuman Services$8kCivil Rights$5kRecreation & Sports$5kHealth$3k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of Patrick J Durkin Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The New School$144,00040%
President and Fellows of Middlebury College$60,00030%
Human Rights Watch Inc$55,00040%
Morehouse College$38,00320%
Jefferson Scholars Foundation$15,00020%
Kieve Wavus Education Inc$7,5001n/a
Protect Students Abroad Inc$5,0001n/a
Central Park Conservancy Inc$5,00010%
The Nightingale-Bamford School$4,00010%
Prep for Prep$2,50010%
The Jed Foundation$2,5001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($100k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Patrick J Durkin Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe New School: $144,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHuman Rights Watch Inc: $55,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMorehouse College: $38,003 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJefferson Scholars Foundation: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Nightingale-Bamford School: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPrep for Prep: $2,500 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 8.

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About Patrick J Durkin Charitable Foundation

How much does Patrick J Durkin Charitable Foundation give?
Patrick J Durkin Charitable Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $132,431 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 7 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
What does Patrick J Durkin Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (81%), International (13%), Religion (2%).
Who are Patrick J Durkin Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: The New School ($144k), President and Fellows of Middlebury College ($60k), Human Rights Watch Inc ($55k).
Does Patrick J Durkin Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Patrick J Durkin Charitable Foundation 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.
Where is Patrick J Durkin Charitable Foundation based?
Patrick J Durkin Charitable Foundation is based in CT.

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 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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