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Patrick J Durkin Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $101k
$7,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$170k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The New School$32,804
Morehouse College$28,127
Middlebury College$20,000
St James Church$10,000
Regis High School$10,000
Kieve Wavus Education$7,500
Human Rights Watch$5,000
Jefferson Scholars Foundation$5,000
Central Park Conservancy$5,000
Nightingale Bamford School$4,000
Prep for Prep$2,500
The Jed Foundation$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Kieve Wavus Education: $8k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$412k · 7 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +1% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
1

Total granted

$412k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
0%

Still filing today

71%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalCivil RightsPhilanthropyHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TN
    The New School
    4× · 2022–2025 · $144k · revenue +1%
  • PA
    President and Fellows of Middlebury College
    3× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +12%
  • JS
    JEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $15k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • PS
    Protect Students Abroad Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
7
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
8
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
10
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
11
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
12
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jefferson Scholars Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Protect Students Abroad Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 13 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The New School: $144,000 · EducationThe New SchoolPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $60,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Middlebury CollegeMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $38,003 · EducationMOREHOUSE COLLEGE+2 more: $6,500 · EducationRegis High School: $70,000 · OtherRegis High SchoolSt James Church: $30,400 · OtherSt James ChurchHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $55,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS W…JEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyKieve Wavus Education Inc: $7,500 · Human ServicesProtect Students Abroad Inc: $5,000 · Civil RightsCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE JED FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Health
Education$248,503Other$100,400International$55,000Philanthropy$15,000Human Services$7,500Civil Rights$5,000Recreation & Sports$5,000Health$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Patrick J Durkin Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Patrick J Durkin Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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