· Private foundation
Patten Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLAYERS CIRCLE ART CENTER | $5,000 |
| CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATRE | $5,000 |
| THE CLINIC FOR THE REHABILITATION OF WILDLIFE | $2,500 |
| FLORIDA REPERTORY THEATRE | $2,000 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $500 |
| COLLABORATORY | $250 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $100 |
| SOCIETY OF THE SACRED HEART | $100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $100 |
| AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION | $100 |
| ST JOSEPH'S INDIAN SCHOOL | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $607) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PCPLAYERS CIRCLE ART CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +77%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE8× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +70%- CFCLINIC FOR THE REHABILITATION OF WILDLIFE INC7× · 2018–2025 · $6k · revenue +111%
Funded once
- IWI WILL MENTORSHIP FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
- ASAUTISM SOCIETY OF COLORADOone grant, 2021 · $525 · revenue +16%
- LMLEE MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $500
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.
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.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.
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.
Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
The american college of radiology (acr) is organized to advance radiology science, practice and access, improve quality and safety, provide continuing education for radiology and allied professionals, and achieve better outcomes through…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
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…
Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Our mission is to enhance the ability of our members to provide world class care to patients with digestive disorders and advance the profession through excellence and innovation based upon the pillars of patient care, education,…
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 38 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER ↗
- Who funds PLAYERS CIRCLE ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST FLORIDA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CLINIC FOR THE REHABILITATION OF WILDLIFE INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds I WILL MENTORSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SOCIETY OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CLEARBROOK ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOSPICE AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Camp Kesem National ↗
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 United Way of Lee County Inc · Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Patten Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Patten Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc: 69% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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