Illinois · Private foundation
Patterson 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.
- $272k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,200
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Patterson Family 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; $71k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $232k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $221k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $120k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $70k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $72k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $67k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $56k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $55k | 25% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Driftless Area Land Conservancy Inc | $252,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest | $152,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $111,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Rainforest Foundation Inc | $80,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Patterson Family Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Delta Institute | $43,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Pro Publica Inc | $36,035 | 9 | 0% |
| Sarah's Inn | $34,120 | 9 | 0% |
| Chicago Lights | $25,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Opportunity Knocks Incorporated | $21,100 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($40k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Patterson Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 Lumpkin Family Foundation · Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Good Heart Work Smart Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · The Manaaki Foundation · The Kraus Family Foundation Co Emanuel V Dinatale · Joseph R & Helen Shaker Family Foundation · Hazard Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Patterson Family Foundation
- How much does Patterson Family Foundation give?
- Patterson Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $271,937 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Patterson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (62%), Food & Nutrition (11%), Philanthropy (5%).
- Who are Patterson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Driftless Area Land Conservancy Inc ($252k), Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest ($152k), Greater Chicago Food Depository ($111k).
- Does Patterson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Patterson Family 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Patterson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Lumpkin Family Foundation, Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Patterson Family Foundation based?
- Patterson Family Foundation is based in IL.
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