Missouri · Private foundation
The Lewis a and Donna M Patterson Char Fdn
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $58k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $711k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations The Lewis a and Donna M Patterson Char Fdn funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $58k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $55k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $40k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $42k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $50k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $42k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $44k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $45k | 44% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens Inc | $78,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Eye and Ear Foundation | $67,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Sisters Place Inc | $25,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Western Pennsylvania Conservancy | $23,600 | 8 | 0% |
| Pittsburgh Public Theater Corporation | $23,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Clear Thoughts Foundation | $22,100 | 9 | 2% |
| North Hills Community Outreach Inc | $18,000 | 3 | 0% |
| National Aviary in Pittsburgh Inc | $13,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Friends of Utah Avalanche Fore Cast Center Inc | $12,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Pittsburgh Symphony Inc | $10,500 | 3 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens Inc | $78,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Eye and Ear Foundation | $67,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Sisters Place Inc | $25,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Western Pennsylvania Conservancy | $23,600 | 8 | 0% |
| Pittsburgh Public Theater Corporation | $23,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Clear Thoughts Foundation | $22,100 | 9 | 2% |
| North Hills Community Outreach Inc | $18,000 | 3 | 0% |
| National Aviary in Pittsburgh Inc | $13,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Friends of Utah Avalanche Fore Cast Center Inc | $12,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Pittsburgh Symphony Inc | $10,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Literacy Pittsburgh | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Pittsburgh Cultural Trust | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The City Theatre Company Inc | $5,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pgh | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities Diocese of Venice Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Reading Is Fundamental Pittsburgh | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Radiant Hall Studios | $2,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Westmoreland County Food Bank Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($87k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Lewis a and Donna M Patterson Char Fdn supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Hillman Family Foundations · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Heinz Endowments · Eqt Foundation · Howard & Nell E Miller Foundat · The Burke Family Foundation · The Burke Foundation · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Lewis a and Donna M Patterson Char Fdn with peer funders
About The Lewis a and Donna M Patterson Char Fdn
- How much does The Lewis a and Donna M Patterson Char Fdn give?
- The Lewis a and Donna M Patterson Char Fdn reported 12 grants totaling $58,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Lewis a and Donna M Patterson Char Fdn fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (24%), Health (24%), Human Services (18%).
- Who are The Lewis a and Donna M Patterson Char Fdn's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens Inc ($78k), Eye and Ear Foundation ($68k), Sisters Place Inc ($25k).
- Does The Lewis a and Donna M Patterson Char Fdn fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lewis a and Donna M Patterson Char Fdn accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Lewis a and Donna M Patterson Char Fdn?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hillman Family Foundations, The Pittsburgh Foundation, The Grable Foundation.
- Where is The Lewis a and Donna M Patterson Char Fdn based?
- The Lewis a and Donna M Patterson Char Fdn is based in MO.
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