Indiana · Nonprofit
Pattern Inc
Pattern Inc (Indiana) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $910,951 to it, the largest being Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc ($307,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $911k
- Net assets
- $750k
What Pattern Inc does
Mission
Pattern, Inc. provides support to Central Indianas creative/maker industries in the form of business resources, exposure, education, and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Pattern offers fellowships and creatitve entrepreneur in residence programs allowing participants to work onsite learning all aspects of the organization including social media, fashion, journalism, graphic design, photography, event planning, business administration, non profit management and marketing/public relations. Internships are offered in 12 to 16 week increments to college students and recent graudates in the spring, summer and fall.
$468,729 spent$833,373 earned by the program69% of program spendingPattern hosts multiple events throughout the year with the purpose of growing, educating, and unifying an all inclusive community of fashion lovers, students, professionals, and enthusiasts. Events held include digital cover shoots, the Indiana Creative Economy Summitt, as well as a variety of networking and skill building events.
$100,815 spent$79,933 earned by the program15% of program spendingStitchworks, a program of Patterns, operates as a small batch sewing facility offering production services to indie fashion designers and entrepreneurs by establishing a full time cut and sew facility while simultaneously creating a pipeline of sewing talent in our region. In 2021, Pattern launched an industrial sewing certificate program to address the dire shortage of industrial machine operators.
$54,855 spent$71,421 earned by the program8% of program spendingIn support of the mission of the organization, Pattern publishes a bi-annual magazine that provides fashion/maker industry personnel the opportunity to work in their field and to otherwise hone their professional skills in a professional enviroment and educates the broader community about our mission. The publication is sold at Patterns events and local bookstores. All proceeds, if any, go towards the organizations programming needs. Pattern also maintains a website, which is a digital extension of the printed magazine. Access to the website and its content is free.
$54,143 spent$14,646 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $678,542.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $414k to $816k (+97%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
28% of Pattern Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $1k → $108k.
3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Pattern Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Pattern Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
46% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Pattern Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 47% · 2020 62% · 2021 58% · 2022 30% · 2023 47% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
67% of Pattern Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
97% of Pattern Inc's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $219k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Pattern Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Pattern Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $378 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $378
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Pattern Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
52%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Pattern Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Pattern Inc?
- Pattern Inc (Indiana) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $910,951 to it, the largest being Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc ($307,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Pattern Inc have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $910,951 in grants to Pattern Inc, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Pattern Inc?
- Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $307,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Pattern Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 15 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing