· Private foundation
The Lewis a and Donna M Patterson Char Fdn
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EYE & EAR FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| NORTH HILLS COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC | $8,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FDN GREATER PA WEST VA | $5,000 |
| SISTERS PLACE INC | $5,000 |
| PHIPPS CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARD I | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE PITTSBURGH | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF UT AVALANCHE FORECAST CETR IN | $5,000 |
| WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY | $3,000 |
| PITTSBURGH TRUST FOR CULTURAL RESOURCES | $3,000 |
| CLEAR THOUGHTS FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| CITY THEATRE COMPANY INC | $3,000 |
| LITERACY PITTSBURGH | $3,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- PCPHIPPS CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS INC8× · 2018–2025 · $78k · revenue +11%
- EAEYE AND EAR FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue +187%
- WPWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY8× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
- EEEYE EAR FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $10k
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGHone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -15%
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.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…
We improve quality of life by enhancing and stewarding pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.
See schedule o for the description of pittsburgh ballet theatre inc.'s primary mission.the ballet is pittsburgh's source and ambassador for extraordinary ballet experiences that give life to the classical tradition, nurture new ideas and,…
The university of pittsburgh, founded in 1787, is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the united states and one of the nation's top public research universities. for more than two centuries, the university of pittsburgh…
To create a vibrant, responsible, and sustainable film and digital media sector in southwestern pennsylvania.
The mission of artphilly is to amplify philadelphia's arts and culture by commissioning, presenting, producing, and promoting art of all kinds for local audiences and the world. its vision is to spotlight(continued on schedule o)the city…
The mission of pittsburgh arts & lectures is to connect celebrated authors with the community, elevate civic discourse, and inspire creativity and a passion for the literary arts. our commitment to knowledge, learning, integrity, and…
To provide a means for sharing resources and information among members, engage in joint projects, and offer a common voice on educational matters.
To protect, preserve, and promote the scenic resources of southwestern pennsylvania.
Challenging, educating and entertaining pittsburgh audiences by providing high quality theatre at reasonable prices, while focusing on irish, english and classical works.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and the most unlike its peers is Clear Thoughts Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 29 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 PHIPPS CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds EYE AND EAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SISTERS PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH PUBLIC THEATER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CLEAR THOUGHTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH HILLS COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UTAH AVALANCHE FORE CAST CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds The City Theatre Company Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGH ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF VENICE INC ↗
- Who funds READING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds RADIANT HALL STUDIOS ↗
- Who funds WESTMORELAND COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
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: 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
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 Lewis a and Donna M Patterson Char Fdn 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.