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The Sam and Deidre 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.

$19k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$49kHuman Services$29kHousing & Shelter$25kHealth$21kArts & Culture$11kRecreation & Sports$10kMembership Benefit$6kCommunity Improvement$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$395k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$3,000
FAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PA$3,000
THE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA$2,500
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC$2,500
INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY ASSOCIATION$2,500
ROSE FOUNDATION$2,000
H COLLECTIVE INC$1,000
PUBLIC HEALTH MANAGEMENT CORPORATION$1,000
BRONZE ASSOCIATION FOR CULTURAL ADVANCEMENT INC$500
PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI CHAPTER HOUSING CORPORATION$500
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC$500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

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Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%TURNING POINTS FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 22%TURNING POINTS FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 22%CHILDREN FIRST PA: $3k → 22%PUBLIC CITIZENS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH: $500 → 22%FAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PA: $3k → 7%FAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PA: $3k → 7%FAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PA: $3k → 7%FAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PA: $3k → 7%GREATER PHILADELPHIA YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIAT: $3k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$111k · 13 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +48% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
28

Total granted

$111k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+48%

Still filing today

85%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureReligionRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $28k · revenue +78%
  • RO
    R O S E FOUNDATION RECOGNIZING OPPORTUNITIES FOR SERVICE AND
    7× · 2017–2023 · $15k · revenue +112%
  • PA
    Philadelphia Alumni Chapter Housing Corporation
    4× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM IN PHILADELPHIAgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +48%
  • GO
    GAMMA OMEGA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • PH
    Public Health Fund
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -32%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Philadelphia Health Partnership
Health
2
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
3
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
4
Heights Philadelphia

Heights is a new kind of organization, an economic mobility catalyst. we believe that creating pathways to educational and workforce success for low-income, black and brown, and first-generation-to-college students is the keystone of a…

Education
5
Highmark Health Group

Working as an integrated system within highmark health, employees at all of ahn's care sites, including hospitals, health + wellness pavilions, primary and specialty care offices and more, are committed to improving health and promoting…

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6
Philadelphia University

The organization is an affiliate within thomas jefferson university/jefferson health; a comprehensive professional university and tax-exempt integrated healthcare delivery system ("system"), with a tripartite mission of education, research…

Education
7
Whyy Inc

Whyy is the philadelphia region's leading public media provider, serving southeastern pennsylvania, southern new jersey, and all of delaware.

Arts & Culture
8
Philadelphia Academy of School Leaders Inc

We develop, engage, and retain principals and system leaders who transform schools, dramatically improve student outcomes, and drive systemic change to prepare all philadelphia students for college, career, and life.

Education
9
Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau

The philadelphia convention & visitors bureau (phlcvb) is the official tourism promotion agency for the city of philadelphia globally, and the sales and marketing agency for the pennsylvania convention center (pcc). phlcvb markets…

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10
Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation

Johns hopkins health system corporation provides centralized management of a multi-hospital healthcare system. it is a key component of johns hopkins medicine, a collaboration with the johns hopkins university school of medicine.

Health
11
National Nurse-Led Care Consortium

The national nurse-led care consortium (nncc) strives to advance nurse-led healthcare through policy, consultation, and programs to reduce health disparities and meet people's primary care and wellness needs.

Health
12
Saint Joseph's University

As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carson Valley Children's Aid and the most unlike its peers is Legacy Foundation Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%5%<5yr15%5%5–10yr19%30%10–20yr17%20%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr15%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%4%<5yr15%1%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr17%33%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr15%12%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/41
the rest of the field
14%
4,218/31,086

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 45 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/36
Grantees still filing
22/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $27,500 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INCR O S E FOUNDATION RECOGNIZING OPPORTUNITIES FOR SERVICE AND — $15,000 · EducationR O S E FOUNDATION RECOGNIZING OPPORTUNITIES FO…Philadelphia Alumni Chapter Housing Corporation — $12,500 · EducationPhiladelphia Alumni Chapter Housing CorporationKIPP PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOOL — $2,500 · Education+7 more — $8,337 · Education+7 moreFAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PA — $12,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE MON…TURNING POINTS FOR CHILDREN — $7,500 · Human ServicesTURNING POINTS FOR…Greater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association — $3,000 · Human ServicesGreater Philadelph…Children First PA — $3,000 · Human ServicesChildren First PAKAPPA ALPHA PSI FOUNDATION INC — $5,500 · OtherKAPPA ALPHA PSI FO…GAMMA OMEGA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · OtherGAMMA OMEGA ALUMNI…ROSE FOUNDATION — $4,000 · OtherROSE FOUNDATIONBRONZE ASSOCIATION FOR CULTURAL ADVANCEMENT INC — $2,500 · OtherBRONZE ASSOCIATION…PHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY OF LEADERS INC — $2,000 · OtherPHILADELPHIA COMMU…THE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $1,500 · OtherTHE LINKS FOUNDATI…PHILADELPHIA READS INC — $1,000 · OtherDREAM DRIVERS FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · OtherLEGACY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $1,000 · Other+6 more — $1,600 · Other+6 moreTHE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $9,000 · HealthTHE BRYN MAWR H…Public Health Fund — $5,000 · HealthPublic Health F…THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $2,500 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S …ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $1,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDRE…SPECTRUM HEALTH SERVICES INC — $1,000 · HealthPublic Health Management Corporation — $1,000 · Health+2 more — $1,000 · HealthNILE SWIM CLUB OF YEADON — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsPHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC — $500 · Recreation & SportsAFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM IN PHILADELPHIA — $5,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureLOVE NOW MEDIA INC — $500 · Arts & CultureCHOSEN 300 MINISTRIES INC — $1,000 · ReligionFathers Day Rally Committee Inc — $500 · Religion
Education$65,837Human Services$25,500Other$25,100Health$21,000Recreation & Sports$10,500Arts & Culture$8,000Religion$1,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $27,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetR O S E FOUNDATION RECOGNIZING OPPORTUNITIES FOR SERVICE AND — $15,000 over 7y, 6.0% of budgetPhiladelphia Alumni Chapter Housing Corporation — $12,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE MONTCO PA — $12,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNILE SWIM CLUB OF YEADON — $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINTS FOR CHILDREN — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM IN PHILADELPHIA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPublic Health Fund — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGreater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren First PA — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIPP PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOOL — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHEYNEY FOUNDATION — $1,837 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JAMES SCHOOL — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECTRUM HEALTH SERVICES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWest Oak Lane Charter School — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPublic Health Management Corporation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHEYNEY UNIVERSITY NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVISION ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA READS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetH Collective — $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHOSEN 300 MINISTRIES INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE NOW MEDIA INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA YOUTH BASKETBALL INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVESTEDIN — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOverbrook West Neighbors — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Philadelphia Foun…The William Penn Foun…United Way of Greater…The Gordon Charter Fo…Independence Foundati…W W Smith Charitable …The Pew Charitable Tr…Elevate 215The Patricia Kind Fam…The Barra Foundation …Lincoln Financial Fou…Philabundance
The Philadelphia FoundationPA25.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Independence Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · The Pew Charitable Trusts · Elevate 215 · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Philabundance

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Sam and Deidre Patterson Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    11report 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

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Sam and Deidre Patterson Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Sam and Deidre Patterson Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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