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Patterson Foundation Inc at a glance

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Patterson Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$39k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Public Safety & Disaster$26kArts & Culture$14kFood & Nutrition$4kHuman Services$3kPhilanthropy$2kCommunity Improvement$2kHousing & Shelter$2kInternational$1kOther$0
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,892
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED$25,892
BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY$13,244
02The need
03

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 (FY20–22, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%South Brevard Sharing Center: $3k → 10%Bethesda Cares: $500 → 8%Iona Senior Services: $500 → 14%SOUTH BREVARD SHARING CENTER: $375 → 10%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.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$18k · 3 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
12

Total granted

$18k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+42%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22’23
InternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • BM
    BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY INC
    2× · 2020–2023 · $14k · revenue +19%
  • SB
    SOUTH BREVARD SHARING CENTER INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $3k · revenue +18%
  • GE
    GOVANS ECUMENICAL DEVELOPMENT CORP
    2× · 2020–2022 · $2k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • SS
    STUDENT SUPPORT NETWORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +247%
  • FP
    Friendship Placegraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +67%
  • RAZOM INC
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -65%
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
Manna House Inc

To offer assistance and support to the homeless, poor and needy of baltimore with services contributing toward their independence and stability.

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2
Baltimore Hunger Project Llc

Baltimore hunger project removes the barriers to learning by providing food and resources to children facing food insecurity in our community.

Human Services
3
Greater Baybrook Alliance Inc

Greater Baybrook Alliance GBA is a non-profit community development organization whose mission is to act as a catalyst and conduit for equitable development and reinvestment in the Brooklyn, Brooklyn Park, Curtis Bay neighborhoods and…

Community Improvement
4
Washington Dc Meals on Wheels Inc

We deliver healthy delicious meals to our home-bound neighbors. With a vision of creating a more interconnected resilient and compassionate community our program supports entire family systems. In 2024 236 volunteers delivered 55,642 meals…

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5
Baltimore Green Space

Baltimore Green Space is a land trust that partners with communities to preserve and support community gardens , forest patches , pocket parks , and other community-managed spaces.

Environment
6
Nourishing Bethesda Inc

Fighting food insecurity in our area by providing nutritious food and community support to our neighbors in need, as well as offering and linking our clients to wraparound resources that will enable them to build healthy and stable lives.

Human Services
7
Greater Baltimore Committee Inc

Greater Baltimore Committee, Inc. is a not-for-profit, civic-interest corporation comprised of business and professional organizations located within the Greater Baltimore Area. Its purpose is to provide a strong, unified and effective…

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8
Baltimore Neighborhoods Inc

To advocate fair housing and improving tenant/landlord relations.

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9
Baltimore Regional Housing Partnership Inc

The baltimore regional housing partnership expands housing choices for low-income families who have historically been excluded from housing in well-resourced areas.

Housing & Shelter
10
Blue Water Baltimore

To restore the quality of baltimore's rivers, streams and harbor to foster a healthy environment, a strong economy, and thriving communities.

Environment
11
Historical Society of Washington Dc dba Dc History Center

The DC History Center deepens understanding of our city to connect, empower, and inspire. We engage with neighborhoods across DC and elevate the stories of Washington's diverse people, communities, and institutions. We aim to do this work…

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12
Live Baltimore Home Center Inc

Live baltimores mission is to recruit and retain baltimore city residents.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Strong City Baltimore Inc; the most unlike its peers is Juniata County Food Pantry. 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

15 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. 15 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
13/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $25,892 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCRAZOM INC: $1,250 · International+1 more: $400 · InternationalBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY INC: $13,644 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY…+1 more: $400 · Arts & CultureSOUTH BREVARD SHARING CENTER INC: $2,875 · Human ServicesIona Senior Services: $500 · Human ServicesBETHESDA CARES INC: $500 · Human ServicesSTUDENT SUPPORT NETWORK INC: $2,500 · Food & NutritionJUNIATA COUNTY FOOD PANTRY: $500 · Food & NutritionGOVANS ECUMENICAL DEVELOPMENT CORP: $1,500 · Housing & ShelterFriendship Place: $1,300 · Housing & ShelterSEATTLE FOUNDATION: $2,000 · PhilanthropyJuniata County Meals on Wheels: $500 · OtherFriends of the Juniata: $400 · OtherSTRONG CITY BALTIMORE INC: $400 · OtherBALTIMORE HERITAGE INCORPORATED: $400 · Other
International$27,542Arts & Culture$14,044Human Services$3,875Food & Nutrition$3,000Housing & Shelter$2,800Philanthropy$2,000Other$1,700

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 budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $25,892 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY INC: $13,644 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTH BREVARD SHARING CENTER INC: $2,875 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOVANS ECUMENICAL DEVELOPMENT CORP: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriendship Place: $1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAZOM INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIATA COUNTY FOOD PANTRY: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIona Senior Services: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETHESDA CARES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSea Turtle Conservancy: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIATA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $400 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBALTIMORE HERITAGE INCORPORATED: $400 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Baltimore Community F…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Patterson Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 28%
  • Bethesda Cares Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Baltimore Heritage Incorporated: 63% of income from government
  • Govans Ecumenical Development Corp: 28% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Industry Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Sea Turtle Conservancy: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report 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
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.
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Find your warmest path to Patterson Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 17 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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