· Public charity
Gary Patterson Foundation
The big good is a tax-exempt, non-profit organization dedicated to the support of economically disadvantaged children in and around ft.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FORT WORTH CRADLE TO CAREER | $550,000 |
| UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC | $300,000 |
| UPSPIRE FOUNDATION INC | $300,000 |
| TARRANT AREA FOOD BANK | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER | $10,000 |
| PANTHER CITY REPAIR SCHOOL | $5,150 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- FWFORT WORTH CRADLE TO CAREER3× · 2023–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +206%
- UCUNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC4× · 2022–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +5%
- TPTHE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY3× · 2019–2023 · $590k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- EFEducation Foundation for Fort Worth Schoolsone grant, 2018 · $317k · revenue -88% · 31% of their budget
- FWFORT WORTH INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2022 · $250k
- FWFORT WORTH ISDone grant, 2019 · $229k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of read fort worth is to ensure that all students in the city of fort worth, texas read on grade level by third grade. they believe that this will equip the students on the path to success in school and in life. the officers…
We believe that every fort worth area student deserves the opportunity to have access to high-quality education. in pursuit of this, fort worth education partnership's mission is to support, invest in, and coordinate opportunities that…
Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…
To close the hunger gap in north texas by working through over 500 feeding partners to provide access to nutritious food and address the root causes of hunger.
TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school that integrates learning with biblical faith and challenges our students to reach their highest potential - intellectually, creatively, physically, and socially - for the…
The mission of fort worth country day school is to foster the intellectual, physical, emotional and ethical development of capable students through an academically rigorous college preparatory program that integrates the arts and athletics.
The charter school is a model for the next generation of schools, working to prepare students, especially poor and minority students, for the workplace and college.
See Schedule O. The Fay School ("the School") is a nonsectarian, not-for-profit, co-educational school in which children of diverse talents and backgrounds with strong academic abilities are offered a high-quality education in a secure,…
To make every child's potential a reality by engaging and empowering families and communities to advocate for all children.
Fort worth christian school is a christ-centered community where every child is loved, valued, taught excellence in and out of the classroom, and empowered by a biblical worldview for a lifetime of faith and service.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Community Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Hill Community Development Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 26 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds FORT WORTH CRADLE TO CAREER ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Education Foundation for Fort Worth Schools ↗
- Who funds Tarrant Area Food Bank ↗
- Who funds The Hill Community Development Corp ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Dream Outside The Box ↗
- Who funds THE FORT WORTH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IDEA Public Schools ↗
- Who funds Star Sponsorship Program Inc ↗
- Who funds MAKE THE CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT ACADEMY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · The Miles Foundation Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Helen Irwin Littauer Educational Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Gary 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.
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.
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