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Patriot Foundation

Fundraising organization providing scholarship funds for the families of service men and women killed, wounded, and injured while serving our nation.

$4.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
54
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$696k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$17MCivil Rights$25kYouth Development$15k
02FY2025 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 54 grants below total $4,550,837, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,737,840 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $187,003 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $787k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.9M
  • $250k+5 grants · $1.8M
$34,800
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE NIGHTSTAKER FOUNDATION INC: $44k → 18%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 64 repeat orgs$967k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
16

Total granted

$16M
$954k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+12%

Still filing today

47%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyPublic BenefitArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TJ
    THE JOINT SPECIAL OPERATIONS ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2017–2021 · $485k · revenue +2% · 82% of their budget
  • CF
    CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $408k · revenue +467%
  • WU
    WINGATE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $289k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • PN
    PBS NORTH CAROLINA
    one grant, 2022 · $665k
  • SF
    SPECIAL FORCES ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +12%
  • TN
    The Night Stalker Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $44k · revenue +416%
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
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
2
Greensboro College

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.

Education
3
Greenville College

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.

Education
4
Columbia College

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.

Education
5
Furman University

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.

Education
6
Spartanburg Methodist College

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…

Education
7
Wofford College

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…

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8
Catawba College

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,…

Education
9
Southern Wesleyan University

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.

Education
10
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
11
Lehigh University

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
12
LaGrange College

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Campbell University; 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.
04the grantee network

39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/39
Grantees still filing
25/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY: $1,931,619 · OtherEAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITYCOASTAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $784,300 · OtherCOASTAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGETHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO: $782,798 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORONC STATE UNIVERSITY: $721,982 · OtherNC STATE UNIVERSITYUSASOC SOLDIER FAMILY AND COMMAND SUPPORT ASSOCIATION: $672,000 · OtherUSASOC SOLDIER FAMILY AND COMMAND SUPPORT ASSOCIATIONTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE: $665,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTEPBS NORTH CAROLINA: $665,000 · OtherPBS NORTH CAROLINAUniversity of North Carolina at Wilmington - College of Health & Human Serv: $652,800 · OtherUniversity of North Carolina at Wilmington - College of Health & Human ServAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $499,377 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT PEMBROKE: $455,880 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $454,535 · Other+37 more: $3,469,977 · Other+37 moreCAMPBELL UNIVERSITY: $926,570 · EducationCAMPBELL UNIVERSITYAIRBORNE SCHOLARSHIP ASSOCIATION INC: $775,000 · EducationAIRBORNE SCHOLARSHIP ASSOC…CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $407,700 · EducationCAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEG…WINGATE UNIVERSITY: $289,200 · EducationWINGATE UNIVERSITYMETHODIST UNIVERSITY INC: $289,005 · EducationMETHODIST UNIVERSITY INCSCREAMING EAGLE FOUNDATION: $185,000 · EducationNORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY INC: $133,000 · Education+19 more: $857,100 · Education+19 moreTHE JOINT SPECIAL OPERATIONS ASSOCIATION: $485,000 · Public BenefitALL AMERICAN STRATEGIC RESPONSE FORCE: $383,500 · Arts & CultureNORTH CAROLINA STATE ELKS ASSOCIATION CHARITABLE TRUST: $67,000 · PhilanthropySPECIAL FORCES FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyMountain Post Spouses Club: $75,000 · Community ImprovementThe Night Stalker Foundation Inc: $44,000 · Human ServicesWOLF-WARRIOR OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP FOR THE FUTURE INC: $15,000 · Youth Development
Other$11,755,268Education$3,862,575Public Benefit$485,000Arts & Culture$383,500Philanthropy$92,000Community Improvement$75,000Human Services$44,000Youth Development$15,000

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 budgetCAMPBELL UNIVERSITY: $926,570 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAIRBORNE SCHOLARSHIP ASSOCIATION INC: $775,000 over 4y, 45% of budgetUSASOC SOLDIER FAMILY AND COMMAND SUPPORT ASSOCIATION: $672,000 over 4y, 76% of budgetTHE JOINT SPECIAL OPERATIONS ASSOCIATION: $485,000 over 4y, 82% of budgetCAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $407,700 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetALL AMERICAN STRATEGIC RESPONSE FORCE: $383,500 over 4y, 30% of budgetWINGATE UNIVERSITY: $289,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMETHODIST UNIVERSITY INC: $289,005 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSCREAMING EAGLE FOUNDATION: $185,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY INC: $133,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEREDITH COLLEGE: $113,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $105,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $89,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE SERVICES CORPORATION INC: $85,800 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetLEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC: $72,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA STATE ELKS ASSOCIATION CHARITABLE TRUST: $67,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetFOUNDATION OF WAYNE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $60,800 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetDavidson College: $52,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL FORCES ASSOCIATION: $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetPFEIFFER UNIVERSITY: $47,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $46,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Night Stalker Foundation Inc: $44,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetWILLIAM PEACE UNIVERSITY: $42,800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COLLEGE OF THE ALBEMARLE FOUNDATION INC: $31,900 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMANNA UNIVERSITY: $25,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE SHAW UNIVERSITY: $25,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBARTON COLLEGE: $25,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL FORCES FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetROWAN-CABARRUS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $23,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetElon University: $18,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetQueens University of Charlotte: $16,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBREVARD COLLEGE CORPORATION: $15,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOLF-WARRIOR OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP FOR THE FUTURE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetMONTREAT COLLEGE: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOUISBURG COLLEGE: $11,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VANCE-GRANVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHOOD THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $6,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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 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 ↗

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.

The Golden Leaf IncNorth Carolina Commun…North Carolina Commun…Folds of Honor Founda…Foundation for the Ca…National Collegiate A…The Cannon Foundation…Tulsa Community Found…North Carolina Indepe…Charles a Cannon Trus…North Carolina Biotec…Lettie Pate Whitehead…
The Golden Leaf IncNC55.7× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Patriot Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Patriot 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 81 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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