· Private foundation
George William Patton Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $579k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAYO CLINIC HEALTH SYSTEM - LAKE CITY | $82,759 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC | $82,759 |
| YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION | $82,759 |
| MARCH OF DIMES INC | $82,759 |
| FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $82,759 |
| CARNEGIE-TYRON PUBLIC LIBRARY | $82,759 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PASADENA | $82,759 |
| WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES | $12,000 |
| LAKE CITY MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT | $2,000 |
| CAMP FIRE USA - MINNESOTA COUNCIL | $1,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF LAKE CITY MN | $1,000 |
| BOYS' REPUBLIC OF CHINO | $1,000 |
| LAKE CITY MINNESOTA HARBOR | $1,000 |
| LOCAL CHURCH MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| WIDER CHURCH MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 43% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC6× · 2019–2024 · $499k
MARCH OF DIMES INC6× · 2019–2024 · $499k · revenue -35%- CPCARNEGIE-TYRON PUBLIC LIBRARY5× · 2020–2024 · $432k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $82k
- MCMAYO CLINIC HEALTH SYSTEMone grant, 2019 · $79k
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OFone grant, 2019 · $79k
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.
3 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. 3 of the 22 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization George William Patton Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George William Patton Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
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