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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.

$360k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$7.3MHealth$584kSocial Science$500kArts & Culture$448kPublic Benefit$229kCivil Rights$130kRecreation & Sports$95kEnvironment$91kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $135k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $175k
$7,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$9.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEIGHBORS FOR A BETTER SAN FRANCISCO$75,000
SPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS$50,000
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE$50,000
VASSAR COLLEGE$20,000
CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC$15,000
CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC$15,000
REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION$15,000
SAN FRANCISCO PARENTS COALITION$10,000
KEEP BIG SUR WILD$10,000
BIG SUR FOOD & WINE FOUNDATION INC$10,000
GRABHORN INSTITUTE$10,000
TEN STRANDS$10,000
EMILE NORMAN ARTS FOUNDATION INC$10,000
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE$10,000
UNCOMMON ORG INC$7,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ORKEESWA INC: $3k → 13%INDIGENOUS EDUCATION FOUNDATION OFTANZANIA: $3k → 10%ORKEESWA INC: $2k → 10%INDIGENOUS EDUCATION FOUNDATION OFTANZANIA: $2k → 10%HOLY FAMILY DAY HOMES OF SAN FRANCISCO: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
NH
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
NJ
CT
CA
SC
DC
TX
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 32% of Patterson Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Patterson Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.1M · 50 repeat orgs$701k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

50 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
44

Total granted

$6.1M
$605k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+16%

Still filing today

88%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther

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

  • BC
    Bowdoin College
    3× · 2017–2019 · $3.0M · revenue +94%
  • TT
    The Thacher School Inc
    3× · 2017–2019 · $231k · revenue +32%
  • NF
    Neighbors for a Better San Francisco
    3× · 2023–2025 · $229k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • HH
    HYDE HALL INC
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +8%
  • BI
    BES INC
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -39%
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2024 · $50k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
3
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
4
San Francisco Girls' School

To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.

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5
The San Francisco School

A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.

—
6
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
7
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
8
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
9
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
10
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
11
San Francisco Friends School

At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…

Education
12
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open Up Resources and the most unlike its peers is Emile Norman Arts Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent K-12 SchoolsLocal History MuseumsPolicy Research and AdvocacyEnvironmental Conservation …Health Access Advocacy and …Pregnancy Support ServicesVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Youth Sports ProgramsSchool Parent OrganizationsLocal Food System Organizat…Christian Missionary Organi…Cancer Support ServicesDevelopmental Disabilities …Dance Arts OrganizationsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community College Foundatio…Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%6%<5yr14%14%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr16%8%20–35yr13%6%35–55yr16%74%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/95
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,470

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

92 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. 92 of the 104 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
91/92
Grantees still filing
60/92
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

President and Fellows of Harvard College — $3,191,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeBowdoin College — $3,015,000 · EducationBowdoin College+20 more — $887,400 · Education+20 moreHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL — $500,000 · OtherHARVARD BUSINESS …PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE - HARVARD — $90,000 · OtherPRESIDENT AND FEL…COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF BIG SUR — $90,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY ASSOCIA…REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION — $60,000 · OtherBIG SUR FOOD & WINE FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 · Other+51 more — $712,100 · Other+51 morePEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC — $385,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $12,000 · Youth DevelopmentOne Plympton Preservation Foundation Inc — $110,000 · Arts & CultureHYDE HALL INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF MUSIQUE & VIN AU CLOS VOUGEOT INC — $49,000 · Arts & Culture42ND STREET MOON — $35,000 · Arts & CultureKQED INC — $23,000 · Arts & CultureGRABHORN INSTITUTE — $15,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more — $45,500 · Arts & CultureNeighbors for a Better San Francisco — $229,000 · Public BenefitTHE COMMON GOOD INSTITUTE INC — $50,000 · HealthLAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC — $50,000 · HealthThe Stone Research Foundation for Sports Medicine and Arthritis — $30,000 · HealthCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $20,000 · HealthCAMPHILL VILLAGE USA INC — $19,000 · HealthPennys Flight Foundation Inc — $10,000 · HealthALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · HealthScleroderma Research Foundation — $10,000 · HealthGLOBAL HEALTH CORPS INC — $8,000 · Health+1 more — $7,000 · HealthGreenhouse E3 — $145,000 · Housing & Shelter
Education$7,093,400Other$1,507,100Youth Development$397,000Arts & Culture$377,500Public Benefit$229,000Health$214,000Housing & Shelter$145,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $3,191,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBowdoin College — $3,015,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetPEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC — $385,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetThe Thacher School Inc — $231,400 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNeighbors for a Better San Francisco — $229,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION — $175,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetGreenhouse E3 — $145,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetOne Plympton Preservation Foundation Inc — $110,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetHYDE HALL INC — $100,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetBES INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION — $95,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF BIG SUR — $90,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBIG SUR FOOD & WINE FOUNDATION INC — $55,000 over 6y, 7.3% of budgetSPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE COMMON GOOD INSTITUTE INC — $50,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetLAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $50,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF MUSIQUE & VIN AU CLOS VOUGEOT INC — $49,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetUNCOMMONORG INC — $48,500 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetTen Strands — $45,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetASPIRE PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMARIN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $37,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHARVARD LAMPOON TRUST — $35,500 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetTHE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSan Francisco Film Society — $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budget42ND STREET MOON — $35,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetFISHERS ISLAND RECREATIONAL PATH FOUNDATION — $32,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetThe Stone Research Foundation for Sports Medicine and Arthritis — $30,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetFOODCORPS INC — $29,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBig Sur Volunteer Fire Brigade — $25,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKQED INC — $23,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE — $22,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC ROWING CLUB — $20,500 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetSan Francisco Parent Coalition — $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSave The Bay — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMPHILL VILLAGE USA INC — $19,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMULTIPLYING GOOD INC — $18,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGRABHORN INSTITUTE — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWINE EDUCATION COUNCIL INC — $15,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetKeep Big Sur Wild — $12,500 over 2y, 16% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY WORKSHOP INC DBA FORWARD GLOBAL — $12,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO — $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANN MARTIN CENTER — $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Marin Community Found…The San Francisco Fou…Jewish Community Fede…Silicon Valley Commun…The Fairfield Foundat…Fleetwood FoundationMimi and Peter Haas F…The McCance FoundationThe Long Stems Founda…The Spofford Foundati…The Bessemer Giving F…The Willinphila Found…
Marin Community FoundationCA37.8× affinity21 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Fairfield Foundation · Fleetwood Foundation · Mimi and Peter Haas Fund · The McCance Foundation · The Long Stems Foundation Inc · The Spofford Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Willinphila Foundation

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 Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Fulbright University Vietnam Usa Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
  • Aha Foundation Inc — 42% of income from government
  • Foodcorps Inc — 21% of income from government
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Lawrence Memorial Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 104 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines