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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.

$90k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$10k
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 2024.

Animals$250kHuman Services$82kHealth$79kFood & Nutrition$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$24kEnvironment$8kRecreation & Sports$3kPhilanthropy$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $80k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOSPICE BRAZOS VALLEY$10,000
CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK$9,000
AUSTIN PETS ALIVE$5,000
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY$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
RETURN TO FREEDOM WILD HORSE SANCTUARY$5,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF HOUSTON$5,000
PEACEFUL VALLEY DONKEY RESCUE$5,000
THE SATO PROJECT$5,000
AUSTIN SMILES$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
TURTLE MOUNTAIN ANIMAL RESCUE$3,500
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $3k → 5%HOSPICE BRAZOS VALLEY: $10k → 22%HOSPICE BRAZOS VALLEY: $8k → 22%HOSPICE BRAZOS VALLEY: $7k → 22%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%HOSPICE BRAZOS VALLEY: $6k → 22%HOSPICE BRAZOS VALLEY: $6k → 22%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $1k → 14%HOSPICE BRAZOS VALLEY: $6k → 22%HOSPICE BRAZOS VALLEY: $5k → 22%HOSPICE BRAZOS VALLEY: $5k → 22%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ND
IL
NY
OR
WY
IA
CA
VA
SC
DC
LA
TX
FL
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$440k · 28 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
20

Total granted

$440k
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+80%

Still filing today

61%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
AnimalsHuman ServicesEnvironmentInternationalFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • Central Texas Food Bank Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $49k · revenue +12%
  • TM
    TURTLE MOUNTAIN ANIMAL RESCUE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $44k · revenue +38%
  • DI
    DOG IS MY COPILOT
    8× · 2017–2024 · $27k · revenue +719%

Funded once

  • WC
    Wallowa County Humane Societygraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +105%
  • TR
    TMR RESCUE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -2%
  • AH
    ANIMAL HOPE AND WELLNESS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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
Throw a Dog a Bone Dog Rescue

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…

Animals
2
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
3
Paws of Austin Protection of Animal Welfare Services

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…

Animals
4
One Tail At a Time West Texas

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…

Animals
5
Amazing Dogs

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…

Animals
6
The Humane Society of Austin & Travis County Inc

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,…

Animals
7
Jet Wag Animal Rescue Inc

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…

Animals
8
Raskels Rescue
Animals
9
West Houston Animal Rescue

Rescue dogs and other small domestic animals, care for them until they are healthy and adopt them to loving families.

Animals
10
World Vets

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…

Animals
11
Animal Rescuers Without Borders

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.

Animals
12
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Animal Hope and Wellness Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 51 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/32
Grantees still filing
19/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TURTLE MOUNTAIN ANIMAL RESCUE: $44,000 · AnimalsTURTLE MOUNTAIN ANIMAL RESCUEDOG IS MY COPILOT: $26,500 · AnimalsDOG IS MY COPILOTAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC: $26,500 · AnimalsAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INCTHE SATO PROJECT: $14,500 · AnimalsTHE SATO PROJECTPeaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc: $13,500 · AnimalsPeaceful Valley Donkey Rescue IncANIMAL HOPE AND WELLNESS FOUNDATION: $11,500 · AnimalsANIMAL HOPE AND WELLNESS FOUNDATIONNEW BEGINNINGS FOR MERCED COUNTY AN: $9,000 · AnimalsHOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $6,000 · Animals+9 more: $27,500 · Animals+9 moreIndividual grant recipient: $35,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRETURN TO FREEDOM WILD HORSE SANCTUARY: $27,100 · OtherRETURN TO FREEDOM WILD HORSE SANCTUA…Individual grant recipient: $22,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY: $9,000 · OtherNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETYTEXAS WILDLIFE REHABILITATION COALITION INC: $9,000 · OtherTEXAS WILDLIFE REHABILITATION COALIT…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $7,500 · OtherAUDOBON SOCIETY: $5,500 · Other+17 more: $46,500 · Other+17 moreHospice Brazos Valley Inc: $53,000 · Human ServicesHospice Brazo…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $4,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Nati…PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $2,500 · Human ServicesCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $48,500 · Food & NutritionCentral Tex…Austin Plastic Surgery Foundation Austin Smiles: $25,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $7,000 · InternationalNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $13,000 · HealthWILDFLOWER DONOR INC: $2,500 · EnvironmentOCEANA INC: $2,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $1,000 · Environment
Animals$179,000Other$161,600Human Services$59,500Food & Nutrition$48,500International$32,000Health$13,000Environment$5,500

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 budgetHospice Brazos Valley Inc: $53,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $48,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTURTLE MOUNTAIN ANIMAL RESCUE: $44,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetDOG IS MY COPILOT: $26,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC: $26,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAustin Plastic Surgery Foundation Austin Smiles: $25,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTHE SATO PROJECT: $14,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPeaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc: $13,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL HOPE AND WELLNESS FOUNDATION: $11,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNEW BEGINNINGS FOR MERCED COUNTY AN: $9,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTEXAS WILDLIFE REHABILITATION COALITION INC: $9,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWallowa County Humane Society: $5,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGardenia E Janssen Animal Shelter: $3,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWATERLOO GREENWAY CONSERVANCY: $3,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILDFLOWER DONOR INC: $2,500 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetPATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOCEANA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH VALLEY ANIMAL DISASTER GROUP: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RISE SCHOOL OF AUSTIN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 NEW BEGINNINGS FOR MERCED COUNTY AN ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS WILDLIFE REHABILITATION COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds HOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Wallowa County Humane Society ↗
  • Who funds TMR RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • 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 FENCES FOR FIDO ↗

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.

Paypal Charitable Giv…Shell USA Company Fou…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…The Blackbaud Giving …Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Morgan Stanley Global…Natl Christian Charit…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Paypal Charitable Giving FundDC11.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.
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How do I get to Pats Legacy?

Find your warmest path to Pats Legacy 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 51 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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