· Private foundation
The James and Stephanie Patrick Fam
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PATHFINDER VILLAGE | $36,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BASSETT | $20,079 |
| FENIMORE ART MUSEUM | $6,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF OTSEGO CTY | $5,000 |
| COOPERSTOWN FOOD PANTRY | $3,250 |
| CLARA WELCH THANKSGIVING HOME | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| SEWANEE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $2,000 |
| SWIM ACROSS AMERICA | $2,000 |
| SUSQUEHANNA SPCA | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL OVARIAN CANCER COALITION | $300 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 93% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 4 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED6× · 2017–2023 · $105k · revenue +35%- FOFriends of Bassett Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +121%
- PVPATHFINDER VILLAGE INC4× · 2019–2024 · $73k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- DIDYSAUTONOMIA INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -9%
- SSPCAone grant, 2019 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $4k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
The Avery-Copp Museum celebrates, preserves, and documents the historic home, its collection, and the grounds belonging to the Avery and Copp families in Groton, Connecticut. Our purpose is to engage the public in learning about history of…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.
Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
To protect and preserve the Wentworth-Crescent Watershed through initiatives that enhance water quality, land conservation and community education.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
The mission of the Oswego Health Foundation is to raise and manage philanthropic support for Oswego Health and its not for profit entities as they provide accessible, quality care and improve the health of the residents in our community.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Otsego County Conservation Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Parks. 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.
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 43 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
30 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. 30 of the 61 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Friends of Bassett Inc ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDER VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds FENIMORE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PROCTOR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CLARA WELCH THANKSGIVING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF OTSEGO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DYSAUTONOMIA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERSTOWN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FARMERS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Catalytic Impact Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WARING SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERSTOWN FIRE DEPT INC ↗
- Who funds Swim Across America Inc ↗
- Who funds OTSEGO COUNTY CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Philanthropy Connection Inc ↗
- Who funds SMITHY-PIONEER GALLERY INC SMITHY CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds SUSQUEHANNA SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds THREE SISTERS GARDEN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PARKS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Allstadt Hardin Foundation · C J Heilig Foundation Inc · The Patricia M & H William Smith Jr Foundation · Robert and Marjorie Alpern Foundation · The Nycm Foundation · The Tianaderrah Foundation (NY) · The Scriven Foundation · Alice Busch Gronewaldt Foundation Inc · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 The James and Stephanie Patrick Fam 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Three Sisters Garden Project Inc — 2% of income from government
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.
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