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Patterson Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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.

$87k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$136kAnimals$129kHealth$102kHousing & Shelter$61kArts & Culture$42kPhilanthropy$41kCommunity Improvement$35kEducation$31kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
$7,539
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%WALLA WALLA COMMUNITY HOSPICE: $11k → 13%WALLA WALLA COMMUNITY HOSPICE: $11k → 13%WALLA WALLA COMMUNITY HOSPOCE: $10k → 13%WALLA WALLA COMMUNITY HOSPICE: $10k → 13%WALLA WALLA COMMUNITY HOSPICE: $10k → 13%WALLA WALLA COMMUNITY HOSPICE: $9k → 13%WALLA WALLA COMMUNITY HOSPICE: $9k → 13%WALLA WALLA COMMUNITY HOSPICE: $9k → 13%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$668k · 23 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
2

Total granted

$668k
$13k

Still filing today

52%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesAnimalsHealthEducationHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • WW
    Walla Walla Community Hospice
    8× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +40%
  • BM
    BLUE MOUNTAIN HUMANE SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $76k · revenue +14%
  • BM
    Blue Mountain Wildlife
    8× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • S
    SUNBRIDGE
    one grant, 2021 · $7k
  • SC
    SONBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $6k
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
Washington Wildlife & Recreation Coalition

Creating a greener, healthier, more equitable, and better Washington for all through community outreach, network building, and advocacy for conservation and outdoor recreation funding.

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2
Washington Museum Association

The Washington Museum Association was established to represent and serve museums of all types and sizes throughout Washington State

Arts & Culture
3
Washington Wild

Washington wild protects and restores wild lands and waters in washington state through advocacy, education and civic engagement.

Animals
4
Washingtonians for Public Banking

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…

Community Improvement
5
Washington Filmworks

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…

Community Improvement
6
Washington State Dental Association

To unite members of the dental profession to promote oral health of the highest quality.

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7
Washington Health Care Association

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.

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8
Walla Walla Symphony Society Inc

The Walla Walla Symphony delights and challenges our community by providing live orchestral performances and opportunities for leaning about music.

Arts & Culture
9
Washington Housing Alliance Action Fund

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.

Housing & Shelter
10
Wallowa Land Trust

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.

Environment
11
Washington Forest Protection Association

Wfpa advocates and advnances sustainable forestry in washington to protect and enhance the economic investment of private working forest landowners.

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12
Washington Rural Health Association

The washington rural health associations mission is to collaboratively strengthen and prove the health of rural communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Walla Walla Museum Walla Walla Valley Historical Society; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Blue Mountain Wildlife: $53,158 · OtherBlue Mountain WildlifeCHRISTIAN AID CENTER: $50,374 · OtherCHRISTIAN AID CENTERFort Walla Walla Museum Walla Walla Valley Historical Society: $34,286 · OtherFort Walla Walla Museum Walla Walla Valley Historical SocietySONBRIDGE: $30,545 · OtherSONBRIDGEWALLA WALLA CHRISTIAN AID CENTER: $29,363 · OtherWALLA WALLA CHRISTIAN AID CENTERUNITED WAY OF WALLA WALLA: $28,308 · OtherUNITED WAY OF WALLA WALLASEATTLES UNION GOSPEL MISSION: $26,580 · OtherSEATTLES UNION GOSPEL MISSIONST FRANCIS HOUSE: $26,578 · OtherST FRANCIS HOUSEIndividual grant recipient: $21,964 · OtherSALVATION ARMY: $19,098 · OtherWSU FOUNDATION: $18,872 · OtherWSU VET TEACHING HOSPITAL: $15,780 · Other+9 more: $76,736 · Other+9 moreWalla Walla Community Hospice: $79,737 · Human ServicesWalla Walla C…BLUE MOUNTAIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $75,966 · AnimalsBLUE MOUNTAI…WALLA WALLA ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS: $34,285 · Housing & ShelterWe Heart Seattle: $27,714 · Community ImprovementGLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS: $22,315 · HealthWALLA WALLA SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION: $17,142 · Crime & Legal
Other$431,642Human Services$79,737Animals$75,966Housing & Shelter$34,285Community Improvement$27,714Health$22,315Crime & Legal$17,142

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWalla Walla Community Hospice: $79,737 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetBLUE MOUNTAIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $75,966 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetBlue Mountain Wildlife: $53,158 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetFort Walla Walla Museum Walla Walla Valley Historical Society: $34,286 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetWALLA WALLA ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS: $34,285 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetWe Heart Seattle: $27,714 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetST FRANCIS HOUSE: $26,578 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetGLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS: $22,315 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWALLA WALLA SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION: $17,142 over 5y, 21% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS: $13,142 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $12,888 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $12,527 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWALLA WALLA SUMMER THEATER GROUP: $3,769 over 1y, 1.6% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Blue Mountain Communi…Sherwood TrustClara and Art Bald Tr…George T Welch Testam…Bonnie & Clifford Bra…The Sunny Day Charita…Estate of Joseph L St…Yancey P Winans Testa…Seattle FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
Blue Mountain Community FoundationWA22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Blue Mountain Wildlife: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 27 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home