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The Nina and Mike Patterson Foundation (Fka Aegis Lumen 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.

$241k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
89%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$13,250
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 19
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$8.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 89% of the organizations The Nina and Mike Patterson Foundation (Fka Aegis Lumen Foundation) funded were first-time grantees, receiving 94% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $154k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsEnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving8$141k63%
FY20239$164k89%
FY202219$211k58%
FY202116$96k56%
FY20208$62k63%
FY20199$73k78%
FY20185$218kn/a
87% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$461kPhilanthropy$108kPublic Benefit$100kEnvironment$70kArts & Culture$62kYouth Development$41kHealth$41kRecreation & Sports$39kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 33 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($367k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Nina and Mike Patterson Foundation (Fka Aegis Lumen Foundation) supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Barack Obama Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Deerfield Academy: $76,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSteep Rock Association Inc: $70,143 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetRoom to Read: $54,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWarrior-Scholar Project Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Spence School: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGulf Coast Kid's House Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMiami City Ballet Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSquash and Education Alliance Inc: $15,525 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetStoryville Center for the Spoken Word Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHarlem Educational Activities Fund Inc: $14,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBrooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCareerworks Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMarch to the Top - Africa: $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFoundation for Puerto Rico Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAlliance College-Ready Public Schools Foundation: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetServices for the Underserved Inc: $5,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliams College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCity Squash Inc: $4,674 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetIsland Health Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPublicolor Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLung Cancer Research Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSponsors for Educational Opportunity Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Road Company Theater Group Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreenwich Country Day School Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 32.

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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.

Jewish Communal FundNY16.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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About The Nina and Mike Patterson Foundation (Fka Aegis Lumen Foundation)

How much does The Nina and Mike Patterson Foundation (Fka Aegis Lumen Foundation) give?
The Nina and Mike Patterson Foundation (Fka Aegis Lumen Foundation) reported 9 grants totaling $240,750 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does The Nina and Mike Patterson Foundation (Fka Aegis Lumen Foundation) fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (43%), Philanthropy (10%), Public Benefit (9%).
Who are The Nina and Mike Patterson Foundation (Fka Aegis Lumen Foundation)'s largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: The Barack Obama Foundation ($100k), Trustees of Deerfield Academy ($76k), Steep Rock Association Inc ($70k).
Does The Nina and Mike Patterson Foundation (Fka Aegis Lumen Foundation) fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 89% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Nina and Mike Patterson Foundation (Fka Aegis Lumen 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.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Nina and Mike Patterson Foundation (Fka Aegis Lumen Foundation)?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
Where is The Nina and Mike Patterson Foundation (Fka Aegis Lumen Foundation) based?
The Nina and Mike Patterson Foundation (Fka Aegis Lumen Foundation) is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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