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The Pattis Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$2.6MEducation$613kArts & Culture$161kInternational$102kHealth$77kEmployment$70kFood & Nutrition$35kHuman Services$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 29 grants below total $221,300, the rows itemized in this filing. The $272,800 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $51,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k26 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $36k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $140k
$1,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Written Word, Intellectual Inquiry and Education$89,500
Interlochen Center for the Arts$50,000
AFMDA$36,000
Walnut Cove Members Association$5,300
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs$5,000
Evanston Hospital Oncology Fund$5,000
Nurse-Family Partnership$3,000
Environmental Defense Fund$2,000
350.org$2,000
National Park Foundation$2,000
Chicago Abortion Fund$2,000
North Shore Country Day School$2,000
Greater Chicago Food Depository$1,750
Lake Forest Academy$1,000
Penland School of Craft$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ARAB AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK: $250 → 20%ARAB AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK: $250 → 20%Night Ministry: $1k → 14%Night Ministry: $1k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME AND AID: $5k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME AND AID: $5k → 14%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

VT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
MD
NC
DC
AL
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.

24%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$914k · 43 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
47

Total granted

$914k
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+25%

Still filing today

81%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $139k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentPhilanthropyHuman 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CC
    CARLETON COLLEGE
    4× · 2020–2023 · $104k · revenue +31%
  • SWARTHMORE COLLEGE
    4× · 2020–2023 · $104k · revenue +16%
  • WE
    WOMEN EMPLOYED
    2× · 2020–2021 · $70k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • J1
    JULY 16 CHARITABLE FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $2.6M
  • UO
    Univ of N Carolina at Asheville Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $26k
  • EH
    Endeavor Health Clinical Operationsgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +25%
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
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
2
University of New Haven

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…

Education
3
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
4
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management

Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.

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5
Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education
6
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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7
Furman University

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.

Education
8
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
9
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
10
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
11
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
12
Boston Architectural College

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

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Home & Aid Society of Ill; the most unlike its peers is Endeavor Health Clinical Operations. 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 102 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/62
Grantees still filing
45/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JULY 16 CHARITABLE FUND: $2,574,910 · OtherJULY 16 CHARITABLE FUND+72 more: $444,738 · Other+72 moreTHE NEWBERRY LIBRARY: $219,250 · EducationTHE NEWBERRY …CARLETON COLLEGE: $104,000 · EducationCARLETON COLL…SWARTHMORE COLLEGE: $104,000 · EducationSWARTHMORE CO…+6 more: $15,000 · EducationINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $104,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM: $6,000 · Arts & CultureRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $4,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $4,250 · Arts & CultureTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS: $56,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $10,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF: $5,000 · InternationalWOMEN EMPLOYED: $70,000 · EmploymentEndeavor Health Clinical Operations: $25,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $8,500 · HealthNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $3,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $2,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthWALNUT COVE MEMBERS ASSOCIATION INC: $16,600 · PhilanthropyMORAINE TOWNSHIP CHARITABLE FUND CHARITABLE FUND: $10,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $1,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $500 · Philanthropy
Other$3,019,648Education$442,250Arts & Culture$118,250International$71,000Employment$70,000Health$39,500Philanthropy$28,100

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE NEWBERRY LIBRARY: $219,250 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCARLETON COLLEGE: $104,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSWARTHMORE COLLEGE: $104,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $104,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN EMPLOYED: $70,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS: $56,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBREVARD MUSIC CENTER INCORPORATED: $28,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $25,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEndeavor Health Clinical Operations: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWALNUT COVE MEMBERS ASSOCIATION INC: $16,600 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMORAINE TOWNSHIP CHARITABLE FUND CHARITABLE FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HIGHWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetNORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN WRITERS MUSEUM: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLAKE FOREST COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budget350ORG: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE FOREST ACADEMY: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASPIRE OF ILLINOIS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NIGHT MINISTRY: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE THRESHOLDS: $3,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAPNA GHAR INC: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO ABORTION FUND: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetORPHANS OF THE STORM: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEADERSHIP GREATER CHICAGO: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF CHICAGO FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVANSTON HISTORY CENTER: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPenland School Of Craft: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF PRENTICE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLake Street Council: $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.

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 Chicago Community…Circle of Service Fou…Jewish Federation of …Polk Bros Foundation …First Bank Chicago Fo…Arie and Ida Crown Me…Baxter International …AbbVie FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…John D and Catherine …Baird Foundation IncThe Robert Thomas Bob…
The Chicago Community TrustIL27.3× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Pattis Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pattis Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Bennington College Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.

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 102 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $503k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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