How much does The David R and Patricia D Atkinson Foundation give?

The David R and Patricia D Atkinson Foundation reported 61 grants totaling $7,309,063 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 60 and 61 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does The David R and Patricia D Atkinson Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (32%), Education (27%), Environment (10%).

Who are The David R and Patricia D Atkinson Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Cornell University ($6.3M), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($4.3M), Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc ($4.2M).

Does The David R and Patricia D Atkinson Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 2% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The David R and Patricia D Atkinson 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.

Where is The David R and Patricia D Atkinson Foundation based?

The David R and Patricia D Atkinson Foundation is based in NJ.

The David R and Patricia D Atkinson Foundation

The David R and Patricia D Atkinson Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The David R and Patricia D Atkinson Foundation

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as The David R and Patricia D Atkinson Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, George H and Estelle M Sands Foundation.

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$7.3M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$1.5M

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

International$8.8MEducation$7.6MEnvironment$2.8MFood & Nutrition$1.6MArts & Culture$1.5MHealth$1.3MHousing & Shelter$1.1MYouth Development$910kOther$0

02FY2024 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k8 grants · $36k
$10k–50k28 grants · $722k
$50k–250k20 grants · $1.6M
$250k+5 grants · $5.0M

$35,000

Median grant

States reached

$109M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CORNELL UNIVERSITY	$1,466,980
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND	$1,169,083
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS	$1,100,000
CARE	$1,000,000
FEEDING AMERICA	$250,000
HOMEFRONT	$200,000
URBAN PROMISE INTERNATIONAL-CELDI	$170,000
CLIMATE CENTRAL	$100,000
PROPUBLICA	$100,000
NEW EGYPT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH	$95,000
WHYY TV 12	$85,000
BARD PRISON INITIATIVE	$75,000
THE NEW YORK TIMES NEEDIEST	$70,000
YANA MINISTRY	$70,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER	$60,000

02The need

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 (FY20–24, $549k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$27M · 63 repeat orgs$219k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

63 repeat relationships: 57 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$27M

$99k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%

+30%

Still filing today

78%

83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthInternationalArts & CultureEnvironmentOther

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

Cornell University
5× · 2020–2024 · $6.3M · revenue +46%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +39%
COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $4.2M · revenue +37%

Funded once

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PHILADELPHIA SERENGETI ALLIANCE INC
one grant, 2023 · $70k · 98% of their budget
Learning Ally Incgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue +70%
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THE FREE LIBRARY OF NEW HOPE & SOLEBURYgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +30%

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.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture

The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education

Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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International Life Sciences Institute

Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…

Science & Tech

Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International

Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech

MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech

Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc; the most unlike its peers is Elixir Fund. 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

56 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. 56 of the 73 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

55/56

Grantees still filing

49/56

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

International$9,345,000Education$8,134,853Other$5,202,000Environment$2,014,083Food & Nutrition$1,430,000Arts & Culture$769,000Health$767,000

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

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.

The Robert Wood Johnson FoundationNJ21.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · George H and Estelle M Sands Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Curtis W McGraw Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The J Robert & Barbara A Hillier Foundation Inc · Educational Ventures Inc · Merancas Foundation Inc · Tenacre 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 The David R and Patricia D Atkinson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The David R and Patricia D Atkinson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

9get no government money at all

15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely 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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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 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