· Private foundation
Patterson 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRISTIAN AID CENTER | $11,308 |
| WALLA WALLA COMMUNITY HOSPICE | $11,308 |
| WALLA WALLA ALLIANCE HOMELESS | $7,539 |
| BLUE MOUNTAIN WILDLIFE | $7,539 |
| BLUE MOUNTAIN HUMANE SOCIETY | $7,539 |
| FORT WALLA WALLA MUSEUM | $7,539 |
| SONBRIDGE | $7,539 |
| WE HEART SEATTLE | $7,539 |
| FRENCHTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $3,769 |
| WALLA WALLA SHERIFF FOUNDATION | $3,769 |
| WALLA WALLA SUMMER THEATER | $3,769 |
| ST FRANCIS HOUSE SEATTLE | $3,769 |
| FRIENDS OF MILLER BAY | $3,769 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION SEATTLE | $3,769 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
23 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- WWWalla Walla Community Hospice8× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +40%
- BMBLUE MOUNTAIN HUMANE SOCIETY8× · 2017–2025 · $76k · revenue +14%
- BMBlue Mountain Wildlife8× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- SSUNBRIDGEone grant, 2021 · $7k
- SCSONBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2019 · $6k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Creating a greener, healthier, more equitable, and better Washington for all through community outreach, network building, and advocacy for conservation and outdoor recreation funding.
The Washington Museum Association was established to represent and serve museums of all types and sizes throughout Washington State
Washington wild protects and restores wild lands and waters in washington state through advocacy, education and civic engagement.
Washingtonians for Public banking promotes education and civic engagement on public banking and banking reform within Washington state. The organization organizes, educates, and advocates for the establishment of public banking, and…
To build and enhance the competitiveness of Washington State's film and associated creative industry. We accomplish this by marketing and managing the state's production incentive program, representing the state in national and…
To unite members of the dental profession to promote oral health of the highest quality.
Trade association dedicated to providing educational opportunities, legal and regulatory advice, quality compliance assistance, lobbying and discounted group member benefits for long-term care facilities.
The Walla Walla Symphony delights and challenges our community by providing live orchestral performances and opportunities for leaning about music.
The Washington Housing Alliance Action Fund elects candidates, educates voters and decision-makers, and amplifies the voices and priorities of people and communities most impacted by housing instability and homelessness.
Our mission is to protect the rural nature of Wallowa County by working cooperatively with private landowners,indigenous people, local communities and governmental entities to conserve land.
Wfpa advocates and advnances sustainable forestry in washington to protect and enhance the economic investment of private working forest landowners.
The washington rural health associations mission is to collaboratively strengthen and prove the health of rural communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Walla Walla Museum Walla Walla Valley Historical Society and the most unlike its peers is Walla Walla Summer Theater Group. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Walla Walla Community Hospice ↗
- Who funds BLUE MOUNTAIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Blue Mountain Wildlife ↗
- Who funds Fort Walla Walla Museum Walla Walla Valley Historical Society ↗
- Who funds WALLA WALLA ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds We Heart Seattle ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS ↗
- Who funds WALLA WALLA SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WALLA WALLA SUMMER THEATER GROUP ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Blue Mountain Community Foundation · Sherwood Trust · Clara and Art Bald Trust · George T Welch Testamentary Trust · Bonnie & Clifford Braden Foundation · The Sunny Day Charitable Foundation · Estate of Joseph L Stubblefield · Yancey P Winans Testamentary Trust · Seattle Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Patterson Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Blue Mountain Wildlife — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.