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Patterson Family Foundation
Its FY2021 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 FY2019–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k371 grants · $1.7M
- $10k–50k147 grants · $2.4M
- $50k–250k70 grants · $7.1M
- $250k+19 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN ROYAL ASSOCIATION | $2,500,000 |
| KANSAS CITY UNIVERSITY | $1,800,000 |
| THE PEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL | $1,000,000 |
| SPROUT HOUSE LEARNING CENTER | $845,566 |
| MRI GLOBAL | $500,000 |
| KANSAS CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC | $500,000 |
| KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT | $378,750 |
| KANSAS 4-H FOUNDATION INC | $349,970 |
| AMERICAN ROYAL ASSOCIATION | $331,820 |
| KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE | $324,000 |
| RIDGEWAY R-V SCHOOL DISTRICT | $300,000 |
| KANSAS CITY UNIVERSITY | $300,000 |
| CERNER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $297,705 |
| MULLINVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $284,000 |
| HEALTHY BOURBON COUNTY ACTION TEAM INC | $280,070 |
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 (FY19–21, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 22% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
184 repeat relationships — 184 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 300 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13M 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
- ARAMERICAN ROYAL ASSOCIATION INC3× · 2019–2021 · $7.7M · revenue +55% · 28% of their budget
- KCKansas City University2× · 2020–2021 · $2.4M · revenue +148%
- TETHE ELLIS FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2021 · $498k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- TKThe Kansas University Endowment Associationgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1.1M · revenue +64%
- NFNORTHPOINT FOUNDATION KANSAS CITY COVID-19 KC TASK FORCEone grant, 2020 · $375k
- HNHEALTHY NEVADAone grant, 2020 · $364k · revenue -83% · 89% of their budget
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.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare - centered around you.
Engaging and aligning providers and stakeholders to establish Kansas as a role model for health care quality and a top performer in health care outcomes.
Promote and provide quality healthcare for the general commuinty of Jefferson County
McPherson Healthcare Foundation is committed to securing, managing and allocating funds for the enhancement of facilities and services provided by McPherson Hospital, Inc. in McPherson, Kansas, and contributing, implementing and developing…
The purpose of the Lindsborg Community Health Care Foundation is to coordinate and collaborate: Community health care entities, Health related philanthropic activities, Assessment of need for and the recruitment of professional medical…
The vision of the Association is optimal health for Kansans. The Association's mission is to be the leading advocate and resource for members.
The Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas servces the region by encouraging charitable giving benefiting the common good and the quality of life.
To enhance the life, culture, and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.
To secure and expend financial aid to the operation, maintenance, and expansion of the health care facilities and services of Cloud County Health Center, Inc. of Concordia, Kansas.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Improve the health of all kansans through nonpartisan research, education and engagement that support effective policymaking.
Superior healthcare and exceptional service for each person, every time.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coffeyville Regional Medical Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Healthy Nevada. 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 29 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
90 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. 90 of the 781 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 AMERICAN ROYAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Kansas City University ↗
- Who funds ORACLE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds Lindsborg Child Development Center ↗
- Who funds MRIGlobal ↗
- Who funds THE ELLIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY NEVADA ↗
- Who funds Kansas 4-H Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MULLINVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HEALTHY BOURBON COUNTY ACTION T ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds Harper County Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds THRIVE ALLEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds KISMET PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Clara Barton Hospital Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Citizens Medical Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CLAY COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wilson Medical Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds Rural Education and Workforce Alliance ↗
- Who funds ROOKS COUNTY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIGH PLAINS HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEWTON HEALTHCARE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GROW LOGAN COUNTY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOHN FITZGIBBON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds KC DIGITAL DRIVE 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 Patterson Family Foundation · Kansas Health Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Greater Northwest Kansas Community Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Sunflower Foundation Health Care for Kansans · Dane G Hansen Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Greater Salina Community Foundation · Health Forward Foundation
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 Patterson Family 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.
- Center On Rural Innovation Inc — 37% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% 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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