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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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$550k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Youth Development$1.5MHuman Services$1.1MEducation$827kHousing & Shelter$590kPhilanthropy$535kFood & Nutrition$235kArts & Culture$12kHealth$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
$300,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$770k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FORT WORTH CRADLE TO CAREER$550,000
UPSPIRE FOUNDATION INC$300,000
UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC$300,000
TARRANT AREA FOOD BANK$100,000
COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER$10,000
PANTHER CITY REPAIR SCHOOL$5,150
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC: $300k → 11%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC: $225k → 11%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC: $333k → 11%UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC: $250k → 11%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.
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 5 repeat orgs$978k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
19

Total granted

$3.9M
$963k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+20%

Still filing today

80%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
EducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • FW
    FORT WORTH CRADLE TO CAREER
    3× · 2023–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +206%
  • UC
    UNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +5%
  • TP
    THE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY
    3× · 2019–2023 · $590k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • EF
    Education Foundation for Fort Worth Schools
    one grant, 2018 · $317k · revenue -88% · 31% of their budget
  • FW
    FORT WORTH INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
  • FW
    FORT WORTH ISD
    one grant, 2019 · $229k
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
Read Fort Worth

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…

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2
Fort Worth Education Partnership Inc

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…

Education
3
Texas Trust Gives
Philanthropy
4
Texas Christian University

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…

Education
5
North Texas Food Bank

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.

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6
Farmersville Education Foundation Inc
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7
The Woodlands Christian Academy

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…

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8
Fort Worth Country Day School Inc

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.

Education
9
Third Future Schools - Texas

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.

Education
10
The Fay School

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,…

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11
Pta Texas Congress

To make every child's potential a reality by engaging and empowering families and communities to advocate for all children.

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12
Fort Worth Christain School Inc

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Community Centers Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UPSPIRE FOUNDATION INC: $525,000 · OtherUPSPIRE FOUNDATION INCEducation Foundation for Fort Worth Schools: $317,084 · OtherEducation Foundation for Fort Worth Sch…FORT WORTH INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $250,000 · OtherFORT WORTH INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICTFORT WORTH ISD: $228,500 · OtherFORT WORTH ISDTarrant Area Food Bank: $205,000 · OtherTarrant Area Food Bank+13 more: $146,150 · Other+13 moreFORT WORTH CRADLE TO CAREER: $1,450,799 · Youth DevelopmentFORT WORTH CRADLE TO CAREERUNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC: $1,108,333 · Human ServicesUNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS …THE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY: $589,583 · Housing & ShelterTHE PRESBYTER…The Hill Community Development Corp: $30,000 · Community ImprovementIDEA Public Schools: $2,500 · EducationStar Sponsorship Program Inc: $2,200 · EducationMAKE THE CONNECTION: $1,250 · EducationHIGH POINT ACADEMY: $500 · Education
Other$1,671,734Youth Development$1,450,799Human Services$1,108,333Housing & Shelter$589,583Community Improvement$30,000Education$6,450

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 budgetFORT WORTH CRADLE TO CAREER: $1,450,799 over 3y, 14% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY CENTERS INC: $1,108,333 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetTHE PRESBYTERIAN NIGHT SHELTER OF TARRANT COUNTY: $589,583 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetEducation Foundation for Fort Worth Schools: $317,084 over 1y, 31% of budgetTarrant Area Food Bank: $205,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Hill Community Development Corp: $30,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetIDEA Public Schools: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FORT WORTH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetStar Sponsorship Program Inc: $2,200 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHIGH POINT ACADEMY: $500 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.

Community Foundation …The Miles Foundation …Communities Foundatio…Sid W Richardson Foun…Helen Irwin Littauer …Charities Aid Foundat…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of North Texas (TaxTX19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Gary Patterson Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Gary 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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