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Patrick Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$193k
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$131kHuman Services$122kEducation$113kHealth$92kYouth Development$78kPublic Safety & Disaster$67kHousing & Shelter$60kCrime & Legal$54kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k29 grants · $123k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ELK RIVER HELPING HANDS$50,000
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS$10,000
READING PARTNERS$10,000
LANDMARKS FOR FAMILIES$5,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF SC$5,000
CONSERVATION VOTERS OF SC EDUCATION$5,000
HELPING LENDING OUTREACH SUPPORT$5,000
STAR GOSPEL MISSION$5,000
LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK$5,000
LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC$5,000
THE DEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDRENS$5,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION SC$5,000
CHARLESTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$5,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY$5,000
CHARLESTON PRO BONO LEGAL SERVICES$5,000
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 (FY18–24, $126k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%EPWORTH CHILDRENS HOME: $5k → 16%ELK RIVER HELPING HANDS: $50k → 21%CHILDRENS TRUST FUND OF SC: $3k → 16%CHARLESTON ORPHAN HOUSE INC: $5k → 12%CHILDRENS TRUST FUND OF SC: $3k → 16%CHILDRENS TRUST FUND OF SC: $1k → 16%YWCA - GREATER CHARLESTON: $3k → 12%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 12%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 12%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 12%MY SISTERS HOUSE INC: $5k → 12%LANDMARKS FOR FAMILIES: $5k → 12%NEIGHBORS TOGETHER: $5k → 12%CHARLESTON ORPHAN HOUSE: $3k → 12%CHARLESTON ORPHAN HOUSE: $3k → 12%NEIGHBORS TOGETHER INC: $3k → 12%WINGS FOR KIDS: $5k → 12%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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$560k · 34 repeat orgs$327k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
40

Total granted

$560k
$227k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+16%

Still filing today

65%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • OP
    One-Eighty Place
    5× · 2017–2023 · $40k · revenue +149%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +23%
  • PB
    PRO BONO LEGAL SERVICES INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $28k · revenue +179%

Funded once

  • M
    MUSC
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • SE
    SOUTHERN ENV LAW CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • SE
    SOUTHERN ENV LAW CNTR
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
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
South Carolina Public Interest Foundation
Crime & Legal
2
South Carolina Legal Services

South carolina legal services is a statewide law firm that provides civil legal services to protect the rights and represent the interests of low income south carolinians.

Crime & Legal
3
Leadership South Carolina

To provide South Carolinians an opportunity to advance their leadership skills while broadening their understanding of issues and opportunities facing the State.

Education
4
Sc Chamber of Commerce

Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.

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5
South Carolina Network of Children's Advocacy Centers

Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse

Youth Development
6
Charleston Waterkeeper

Charleston waterkeeper's mission it to protect and restore charleston's waterways for our community and future generations. we do that through an effective mix of boots-on-the-water stewardship and data-driven advocacy designed to protect…

Environment
7
South Carolina Council On Competitiveness

The south carolina council on competitiveness is a nonpartisan, business-led non-profit organization committed to advancing the long term competitiveness of south carolina through actionable research, support of industry clusters and…

Community Improvement
8
The Carolina Trust
Philanthropy
9
Alliance for a Healthier South Carolina

Convene and connect diverse stakeholders to align and catalyze efforts to improve health and well-being for communities across South Carolina.

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10
Community Foundation of the Lowcountry

The Community Foundation's mission is strengthening community by connecting people, resources, and needs.

Philanthropy
11
South Carolina Policy Council Education Foundation

The south carolina policy council was founded in 1986 as an independent, private, non-partisan research organization to promote the principles of limited government, free enterprise, and individual liberty and responsibility in the state…

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12
South Carolina Business & Industry Political Education Committee

Promoting and protecting the free private and competitive enterprise system through research and education.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Trust of South Carolina; the most unlike its peers is American Lung Association. 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

51 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. 51 of the 88 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/51
Grantees still filing
33/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

READING PARTNERS: $50,000 · OtherREADING PARTNERSBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $35,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERSTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $22,500 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS: $22,000 · OtherLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $20,000 · OtherMUSC: $20,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $20,000 · OtherSOUTHERN ENV LAW CENTER: $20,000 · Other+52 more: $355,500 · Other+52 moreELK RIVER HELPING HANDS: $50,000 · Human ServicesELK RIVER HELPING …American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $30,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National …My Sister's House Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesMy Sister's House …Landmarks for Families Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesLandmarks for Fami…Neighbors Together Inc: $7,500 · Human ServicesCHARLESTON MEN'S CHORUS INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $6,000 · Human ServicesEPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOME: $5,000 · Human ServicesWINGS FOR KIDS: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesPRO BONO LEGAL SERVICES INC: $27,500 · Crime & LegalCharleston Legal Access: $21,500 · Crime & LegalOne-Eighty Place: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITYWORKS INC: $2,500 · Housing & ShelterPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC: $15,000 · HealthAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $5,000 · HealthOPERATION SIGHT: $5,000 · HealthVISION TO LEARN: $5,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF FISHER HOUSE CHARLESTON: $2,000 · HealthCommunities in Schools of South Carolina: $12,500 · EducationUniversity of South Carolina Educational Foundation: $10,000 · EducationLEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC: $5,000 · Education50CAN INC: $5,000 · EducationTRI-COUNTY CRADLE TO CAREER COLLABORATIVE: $2,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationBig Brothers Big Sisters of the Lowcountry: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentYO ART INC: $2,000 · Youth Development
Other$565,000Human Services$148,000Crime & Legal$49,000Housing & Shelter$42,500Health$42,000Education$35,500Youth Development$27,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetELK RIVER HELPING HANDS: $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetOne-Eighty Place: $40,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRO BONO LEGAL SERVICES INC: $27,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of the Lowcountry: $25,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $22,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCharleston Legal Access: $21,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetMy Sister's House Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $20,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetLowcountry Local First: $15,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLandmarks for Families Inc: $15,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCommunities in Schools of South Carolina: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED SOUTH CAROLINA: $12,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUniversity of South Carolina Educational Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetColour of Music: $10,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetNEW MORNING: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION VOTERS OF SC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNeighbors Together Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHARLESTON MEN'S CHORUS INC: $7,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetEAST COOPER MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHARLESTON FORUM: $5,500 over 4y, 10% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY AIDS SERVICES CHILDS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEE NORTON LOWCOUNTRY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTAR GOSPEL MISSION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOME: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Preservation Society of Charleston Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Museum of the Lowcountry: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget50CAN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINGS FOR KIDS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLESTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION SIGHT: $5,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetVISION TO LEARN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKGREEN GARDENS: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARM IN ARM: $2,500 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetCOMMUNITYWORKS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS ON POINT INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA OF GREATER CHARLESTON: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF FISHER HOUSE CHARLESTON: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTRI-COUNTY CRADLE TO CAREER COLLABORATIVE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMiddleton Place Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds ELK RIVER HELPING HANDS ↗
  • Who funds One-Eighty Place ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds PRO BONO LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Lowcountry ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Charleston Legal Access ↗
  • Who funds My Sister's House Inc ↗
  • Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ↗
  • Who funds Lowcountry Local First ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC ↗
  • Who funds Landmarks for Families Inc ↗
  • Who funds Communities in Schools of South Carolina ↗
  • Who funds LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED SOUTH CAROLINA ↗
  • Who funds University of South Carolina Educational Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Colour of Music ↗
  • Who funds NEW MORNING ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION VOTERS OF SC ↗

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.

Coastal Community Fou…Henry & Sylvia Yaschi…The Joanna FoundationDominion Energy Chari…Trident United WayPost and Courier Foun…Sisters of Charity Fo…Central Carolina Comm…Elhapa Foundation IncPathfinder Foundation…The Mark Elliott Motl…The Leon Levine Found…
Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina IncSC60.9× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · The Joanna Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Trident United Way · Post and Courier Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Elhapa Foundation Inc · Pathfinder Foundation Inc · The Mark Elliott Motley Foundation Inc · The Leon Levine 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 Patrick Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Patrick Family 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 Patrick Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Patrick Family 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 88 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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