· Private foundation
Paton Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $23k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $23,081 |
| TFT FOUNDATION | $6,500 |
| VARIOUS | $5,603 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,838 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS4× · 2019–2022 · $4k · revenue +23%
- RHREACHING HIGHER INC3× · 2018–2021 · $750 · revenue +112%
COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC2× · 2020–2021 · $475 · revenue +37%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $6k
- RCROCKWALL COUNTY HELPING HANDS INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $250 · revenue +97%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $200
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.
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.
To increase food access in Central Texas by providing nutritious food, leading hunger and poverty advocacy efforts, and transforming lives through programs, education, and innovative solutions.
Relieve poverty
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To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…
We are a global movement working to end child hunger in the u.s. and around the world. together with communities, we provide food, essentials, and opportunities so every child can survive and thrive.
Provide food, shelter, and medical assistance for children around the world.
The organization provides free short-term medical care clinics in international areas of need and administers medical and dental care clinics for individuals in need without regard for their ability to pay.
Heights and Minds thrives to give children the best start in life by preventing malnutrition and promotiong child development. We work through establishing MindUps in low income countries.
Childfund's mission is to help deprived, excluded and vulnerable children have the capacity to become young adults, parents and leaders who bring lasting and positive change to their communities, and to promote societies whose individuals…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 20 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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Paton Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paton Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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