· Public charity
Patriot Foundation
Fundraising organization providing scholarship funds for the families of service men and women killed, wounded, and injured while serving our nation.
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.
The 54 grants below total $4,550,837 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,737,840 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $187,003 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $787k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+5 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY | $695,519 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NC AT WILMINGTON | $295,800 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE | $292,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NC AT GREENSBORO | $272,689 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $256,782 |
| COASTAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $203,600 |
| CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY | $179,400 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT PEMBROKE | $174,580 |
| APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $167,977 |
| CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $158,700 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $131,649 |
| WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY | $126,157 |
| WINGATE UNIVERSITY | $121,200 |
| MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $111,200 |
| NORTH CAROLINA A&T STATE UNIVERSITY | $108,896 |
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 (FY21–21, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
64 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- TJTHE JOINT SPECIAL OPERATIONS ASSOCIATION4× · 2017–2021 · $485k · revenue +2% · 82% of their budget
- CFCAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $408k · revenue +467%
- WUWINGATE UNIVERSITY3× · 2023–2025 · $289k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- PNPBS NORTH CAROLINAone grant, 2022 · $665k
- SFSPECIAL FORCES ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +12%
- TNThe Night Stalker Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $44k · revenue +416%
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.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The purpose of wofford college is to function as a liberal arts institution of superior quality. its chief concern is the development of an intellectual, spiritual, and aesthetic atmosphere in which serious and inquiring minds of students…
SMC Delivers an exceptional education that fuses the empowerment of the liberal arts with crucial career skills. Our mission is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, virtues, and mindset needed to thrive personally, create…
Catawba college is committed to providing students an education rich in personal attention that blends the knowledge and competencies of liberal studies with career preparation. catawba college draws strength from judeo-christian values,…
Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Campbell University and the most unlike its peers is Mountain Post Spouses Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
39 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. 39 of the 81 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 CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AIRBORNE SCHOLARSHIP ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds USASOC SOLDIER FAMILY AND COMMAND SUPPORT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE JOINT SPECIAL OPERATIONS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALL AMERICAN STRATEGIC RESPONSE FORCE ↗
- Who funds WINGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds METHODIST UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds SCREAMING EAGLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds MEREDITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE SERVICES CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mountain Post Spouses Club ↗
- Who funds LEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC ↗
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: The Golden Leaf Inc · North Carolina Community Colleges Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · National Collegiate Athletic Association · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Tulsa Community Foundation · North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities Inc · Charles a Cannon Trust No 1 · North Carolina Biotechnology Center · Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc
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 Patriot 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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