The Patterson Foundation

• The foundation does not accept direct funding requests or unsolicited proposals, so an organisation that would send a cold application should not do so; instead, look for a connection to one of its community movements or to a related organisation touched by its initiatives.
• Its work fits best where your project sits within one of its four themes: disaster preparedness and recovery, grade-level reading, nonprofit capacity building or digital inclusion.
• About 8 in 10 of its 32 grants to organisations fall between $50,000 and $2,000,000, and half were $125,000 or less, so a modest request near its $125,000 median is closest to its past practice, though its largest grant was about $9,000,000.
• Repeat giving is strong: in its most recent filing, 99% of its grant dollars to organisations went to groups it had also funded in the two filings before, so building a relationship over time is likely to matter more than a one-off approach.
• The filing describes no general application procedure or deadline, and no geographic focus is stated, so you need not assume your area is excluded.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Community Foundation of Sarasota County · Nurture fund; suncoast disaster recovery fund; season of sharing; pay it forward fund; tpf donor advised fund; roxanne g. jerde leadership fund
  $5,375,5642024 tax year
• Bay Park Conservancy · Propelling positive momentum in fundraising effort
  $2,000,0002024 tax year
• Center for Disaster Philanthropy · Atlantic hurricane recovery fund; national partner funding; california wildfires recovery fund; global recovery fund;
  $800,0002024 tax year
• Foundations · National campaign for grade level reading
  $200,0002024 tax year
• Gulf Coast Community Foundation of Venice · Nurture fund
  $187,5002024 tax year
• School Board of Charlotte County, Florida · Campaign for grade-level reading - data management coordinator
  $162,1952024 tax year
• Arts & Cultural Alliance of Sarasota County · Patriot plaza
  $65,7802024 tax year
• Indiana University Foundation · National partner funding
  $50,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.