· Private foundation
The Erica Crystal Patterson 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Pawesome Squad Inc | $2,000 |
| Food on Foot | $1,535 |
| Bedford Stuyvesant Vol Ambulance Co | $1,000 |
| Medwish International | $1,000 |
| Thousand Smiles Foundation | $1,000 |
| Sweet Relief Musicians Fund | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +91% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FOFOOD ON FOOT5× · 2018–2024 · $10k · revenue +66%
- SRSWEET RELIEF MUSICIANS FUND6× · 2018–2024 · $8k · revenue +419%
- MMMEDWISH MEDWORKS4× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- COCONGREGATION OR AMIone grant, 2020 · $2k
- NANATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF NEW YORK CITY INCone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +17%
- TPTHE PEOPLE'S FUNDone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -9%
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.
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.
We serve needy families in Mali who find themselves in medical crisis. Since our founding in 2008, we have helped hundreds of patients access life saving medical care, by paying for medicines, medical tests, and surgeries. We treat complex…
Our mission is to provide equitable access to life-changing dental care by removing barriers and empowering youth. giving a smile foundation (gasf) is a beverly hillsbased nonprofit dedicated to providing free, quality dental care to…
Operating as an integral part of the nyc health + hospitals ("h+h"), formerly the new york city health and hospitals corporation. nyda will further h+h's tax-exempt charitable, scientific, and educational purposes by enhancing the…
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
United latinx fund is los angeles' leading foundation and philanthropic resource created for and by latinx that transforms, uplifts and improves our community's quality of life. with generous support from workplace giving campaigns, united…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
To provide nyc children from low-income families with cultural, recreational, and educational experiences at its camps and with volunteer host families and through year-round academic programs.
Palliative care is a win-win-win-win. expanding access to palliative care benefits all parts of the healthcare system. people living with serious illness are better able to manage physical and emotional symptoms and have peace of mind that…
To deliver smiles for everyone by providing free dental care to those in need, both at home and around the world.
Feed the hunger fund exists to create sustainable food systems that nourish us all. focusing primarily on food and agriculture related enterprises owned by low-income entrepreneurs and communities, fthf provides entrepreneurs with access…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 10 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds FOOD ON FOOT ↗
- Who funds SWEET RELIEF MUSICIANS FUND ↗
- Who funds MEDWISH MEDWORKS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLE'S FUND ↗
- Who funds THOUSAND SMILES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEDFORD-STUYVESANT VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS ↗
- Who funds OUR CLIMATE EDUCATION FUND ↗
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 Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Erica Crystal Patterson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Erica Crystal Patterson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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