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The Pattee Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$339k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$82k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$869kArts & Culture$808kEducation$578kRecreation & Sports$288kEnvironment$239kHealth$77kReligion$48kPublic Benefit$32kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $175k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $156k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$725k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEACHERS COLLEGE$82,188
NEW YORK CITY BALLET$74,100
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK$40,000
USTA FOUNDATION$25,000
GEORGE WASHINGTON'S MOUNT VERNON$25,000
LEWA WILDLIFE CONSERVANCY$15,000
AFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION$10,000
DUCKS UNLIMITED$10,000
MARINE MAMMAL CENTER$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
FRIENDS OF THE UPPER EAST SIDE HISTORIC DIST$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
OCEANA$10,000
EMPOWER AFRICA INC$5,000
SAINT THOMAS CHURCH$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $2k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
VT
MT
WI
NY
MA
IN
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 57 repeat orgs$342k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

57 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
63

Total granted

$2.9M
$336k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+10%

Still filing today

58%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureAnimalsEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NY
    NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $569k · revenue +21%
  • TC
    Teachers College Columbia University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $433k · revenue +7%
  • WC
    WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $206k · revenue +167%

Funded once

  • JA
    JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC
    one grant, 2018 · $32k · revenue +4%
  • PF
    PREP FOR PREP
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue -38%
  • L
    LEWA
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
5
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

The mission is "to understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it." the academy implements its mission through understanding the diversity of life; developing and applying science to protect the environment; and informing…

Science & Tech
6
New York University

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.

Education
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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10
Lowell Observatory

The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…

Science & Tech
11
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
12
Climate Institute

The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee; the most unlike its peers is Clove Valley Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 62 of the 124 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/62
Grantees still filing
44/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

USTA: $114,800 · OtherUSTAAFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATION: $110,000 · OtherAFRICAN PARKS FOUNDATIONHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $54,800 · OtherHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERYIndividual grant recipient: $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $40,000 · OtherAFRICAN WILDLIFE FUND: $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $40,000 · Other+68 more: $523,240 · Other+68 moreWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $206,000 · AnimalsWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWOR…Wildlife Conservation Society: $165,000 · AnimalsWildlife Conservation Societ…Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA: $122,750 · AnimalsLewa Wildlife Conservancy US…WILDAID INC: $100,000 · AnimalsWILDAID INCMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $65,000 · AnimalsMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDA…THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $50,000 · AnimalsTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTERPANTHERA CORPORATION: $45,000 · AnimalsPANTHERA CORPORATIONTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $40,000 · Animals+4 more: $40,500 · AnimalsNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $569,100 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY BALLET INCJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $31,500 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE UPPER EAST SIDE HISTORIC DISTRICTS INC: $27,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION: $26,000 · Arts & Culture+13 more: $60,710 · Arts & Culture+13 moreTeachers College Columbia University: $432,889 · EducationTeachers College Co…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $52,250 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTE…CATE SCHOOL: $37,200 · EducationCATE SCHOOLPREP FOR PREP: $30,000 · Education+7 more: $16,250 · EducationOCEANA INC: $70,000 · EnvironmentDucks Unlimited Inc: $55,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $25,000 · Environment+1 more: $2,000 · EnvironmentUSTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $63,000 · Recreation & SportsPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $18,536 · PhilanthropyLYFORD CAY FOUNDATION INC: $2,250 · PhilanthropyTHE JAMES C FERRER EDUCATIONAL FUNDINC (FORMERLY SHINNECOCK HILLS EDUCATIONAL ): $1,050 · Philanthropy+1 more: $500 · Philanthropy
Other$962,840Animals$834,250Arts & Culture$714,310Education$568,589Environment$152,000Recreation & Sports$63,000Philanthropy$22,336

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $569,100 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTeachers College Columbia University: $432,889 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $206,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $165,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLewa Wildlife Conservancy USA: $122,750 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetWILDAID INC: $100,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetOCEANA INC: $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUSTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $63,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $55,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $52,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPANTHERA CORPORATION: $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCATE SCHOOL: $37,200 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $31,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPREP FOR PREP: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE UPPER EAST SIDE HISTORIC DISTRICTS INC: $27,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION: $26,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC: $21,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCreative Discovery Museum: $13,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTENNESSEE RIVER GARDENS: $12,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetEXODUS SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $5,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAIDSTONE CHARITABLE TRUST: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S HEALTH COALITION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRESOLVE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO CHANTICLEER INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUR FREEDOMS PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLYFORD CAY FOUNDATION INC: $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUILLIARD SCHOOL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHELBURNE MUSEUM INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLOVE VALLEY FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1,710 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF ST TIMOTHY'S SCHOOL: $1,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JAMES C FERRER EDUCATIONAL FUNDINC (FORMERLY SHINNECOCK HILLS EDUCATIONAL ): $1,050 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWARRIOR-SCHOLAR PROJECT FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAYLOR SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds Teachers College Columbia University ↗
  • Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
  • Who funds Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA ↗
  • Who funds WILDAID INC ↗
  • Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
  • Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds USTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PANTHERA CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC ↗
  • Who funds CATE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds PREP FOR PREP ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE UPPER EAST SIDE HISTORIC DISTRICTS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

The Bessemer Giving F…The Goldman Sachs Cha…National Philanthropi…The William & Flora H…The Ayco Charitable F…Jewish Communal FundThe David and Lucile …Gs Donor Advised Phil…Marin Community Found…The Ford FoundationThe Chicago Community…Vanguard Charitable E…
The Bessemer Giving FundNJ19.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Marin Community Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Pattee Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pattee Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Shelburne Museum Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to The Pattee Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Pattee Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 124 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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