· Private foundation
The Patterson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
60% of The Patterson Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Community Foundation Of Sarasota Co Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year The Patterson Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $6M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- $50k–250k8 grants · $753k
- $250k+4 grants · $5.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BAY PARK CONSERVANCY INC | $2,000,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY | $1,641,751 |
| ASHEVILLE SCHOOL | $1,500,000 |
| CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTROPY | $350,000 |
| FOUNDATIONS INC | $200,000 |
| SCHOOL BOARD OF SARASOTA COUNTY | $124,520 |
| NETHOPE INC | $100,000 |
| GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF VENICE | $100,000 |
| SCHOOL BOARD OF CHARLOTTE COUNTY FL | $68,500 |
| SCHOOL DISTRICT OF MANATEE COUNTY | $60,000 |
| BELLAGE LABS INC | $50,000 |
| WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 37% of The Patterson Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 84% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 82%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2021, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TBThe Bay Park Conservancy Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $7.0M · revenue +59%
- FIFOUNDATIONS INC5× · 2021–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +24%
- NINETHOPE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $625k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- ASASHEVILLE SCHOOL INCone grant, 2021 · $1.5M · revenue -3%
- ACARTS & CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF SARASOTA COUNTY INCone grant, 2025 · $66k · revenue 0%
- THTHE HARWOOD INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC INNOVATIONone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
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.
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.
The mission of the realtor association of sarasota and manatee is to advance members' professionalism through delivery of education and resources, and to advocate for real estate in the communities served.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The tampa bay partnership is a privately funded, ceo-driven regional advocacy organization, committed to creating a unified, competitive and prosperous tampa bay.
As the largest association of independent schools, nais co-creates the future of education by uniting and empowering our community. we do this through thought leadership, research, creation and curation of resources, and direct…
Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…
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.
To elevate the profession that transforms lives through the power of financial planning.
To advance florida gulf coast university and its students by promoting the institution, securing philanthropy to support the needs of the university, managing and administering assets with a long term perspective, and providing resources…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 18 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ↗
- Who funds The Bay Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds NETHOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds ARTS & CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF SARASOTA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARWOOD INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds Wreaths Across America ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA HOUSING COALITION 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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Patterson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Patterson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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