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Pats Legacy
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOSPICE BRAZOS VALLEY | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK | $9,000 |
| PEACEFUL VALLEY DONKEY RESCUE | $5,000 |
| RETURN TO FREEDOM WILD HORSE SANCTUARY | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| DOG IS MY COPILOT | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| TURTLE MOUNTAIN ANIMAL RESCUE | $5,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF HOUSTON | $5,000 |
| AUSTIN SMILES | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| AUSTIN PETS ALIVE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| THE SATO PROJECT | $5,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $3,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
28 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
Central Texas Food Bank Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $49k · revenue +12%- TMTURTLE MOUNTAIN ANIMAL RESCUE5× · 2020–2024 · $44k · revenue +69%
- DIDOG IS MY COPILOT8× · 2017–2024 · $27k · revenue +719%
Funded once
- WCWallowa County Humane Societygraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +105%
- TRTMR RESCUE INCone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -2%
- AHANIMAL HOPE AND WELLNESS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
Throw a Dog a Bone is an all-breed dog rescue located in Austin, TX. We focus on saving dogs primarily in the rural shelters in South Texas. Many of these shelters have no exposure and very few resources. Our mission is to rescue as many…
PAWS' purpose is to provide refuge to stray and unwanted animals. PAWS' mission is to prevent cruelty to all animals by promoting humane standards through education and example, to provide care and shelter for homeless animals, aid in the…
One tail at a time west texas otat wtx serves the rural communities of west texas by supporting animal shelter operations rescuing and sheltering homeless unwanted companion animals dogs and cats primarily arranging their veterinary care…
Our mission is to save dogs in distressing conditions on both sides of the California/Mexican border. We provide them with essential medical treatment and care to help them regain their health, and ultimately match them with loving homes…
The austin humane society (ahs) offers comprehensive, humane, life-saving animal services, transforming the lives of animals and those who love them. because we believe homeless animals deserve a chance to thrive in a loving environment,…
Our mission is to move adoptable dogs and cats primarily from heavily-burdened areas to loving homes. We work with trusted partners throughout the country and around the world and facilitate vet care, transport, and adoptions to help…
Rescue dogs and other small domestic animals, care for them until they are healthy and adopt them to loving families.
To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including…
Battling against the overpopulation of homeless pets and improving the lives of companion animals through rescue, fostering programs, adoption, pet care, educational programs and of course spaying and neutering.
Animal Welfare
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Animal Hope and Wellness Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Austin Plastic Surgery Foundation Austin Smiles. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 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 0% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 51 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 Hospice Brazos Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds TURTLE MOUNTAIN ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds DOG IS MY COPILOT ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Austin Plastic Surgery Foundation Austin Smiles ↗
- Who funds THE SATO PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL HOPE AND WELLNESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEXAS WILDLIFE REHABILITATION COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS FOR MERCED COUNTY AN ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Wallowa County Humane Society ↗
- Who funds TMR RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds Gardenia E Janssen Animal Shelter ↗
- Who funds OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WILDFLOWER DONOR INC ↗
- Who funds PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY ANIMAL DISASTER GROUP ↗
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: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Shell USA Company Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Pats Legacy 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.
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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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