Illinois · Private foundation
The Pattis Family 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.
- $273k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 29
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $221k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $89,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 53
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $16M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 23% of the organizations The Pattis Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 29 | $221k | 41% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $189k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $194k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 50 | $2.7M | 36% |
| FY2020 | 53 | $461k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Newberry Library | $219,250 | 4 | 1% |
| Carleton College | $104,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Swarthmore College | $104,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Interlochen Center for the Arts | $104,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Women Employed | $70,000 | 2 | 2% |
| The Chicago Council on Global Affairs | $56,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Brevard Music Center Incorporated | $28,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $25,250 | 5 | 0% |
| Endeavor Health Clinical Operations | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Am Shalom | $23,400 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 65 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Pattis Family Foundation 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: The Chicago Community Trust · Circle of Service Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · First Bank Chicago Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Baxter International Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · The Robert Thomas Bobins Foundation
How this is measured
About The Pattis Family Foundation
- How much does The Pattis Family Foundation give?
- The Pattis Family Foundation reported 29 itemized grants totaling $221,300, out of $272,800 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 53 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Pattis Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (58%), Education (14%), Arts & Culture (4%).
- Who are The Pattis Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Newberry Library ($219k), Carleton College ($104k), Swarthmore College ($104k).
- Does The Pattis Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Pattis Family 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 Pattis Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Circle of Service Foundation, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago.
- Where is The Pattis Family Foundation based?
- The Pattis Family Foundation is based in IL.
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