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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.

$22M
Granted FY2021
607
Grants FY2021
6
States reached
$2.5M
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, FY2019 to 2021.

Education$11MFood & Nutrition$7.9MHealth$7.7MPublic Safety & Disaster$2.8MCommunity Improvement$2.4MEnvironment$862kPhilanthropy$804kInternational$800kOther$0
02FY2021 · 607 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k371 grants · $1.7M
  • $10k–50k147 grants · $2.4M
  • $50k–250k70 grants · $7.1M
  • $250k+19 grants · $11M
$6,300
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.5B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
KANSAS CITY UNIVERSITY$300,000
RIDGEWAY R-V SCHOOL DISTRICT$300,000
CERNER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$297,705
MULLINVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$284,000
HEALTHY BOURBON COUNTY ACTION TEAM INC$280,070
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MELVEN O KUDER SENIOR CENTER ASSOC: $3k → 10%MARION ADVANCEMENT CAMPAIGN INC: $30k → 10%KANSAS PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $10k → 5%SPROUT HOUSE LEARNING CENTER: $846k → 10%KC DIGITAL DRIVE: $75k → 15%KC DIGITAL DRIVE: $75k → 15%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $25k → 15%Little Sisters of the Poor: $25k → 15%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $15k → 15%Little Sisters of the Poor: $12k → 15%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $9k → 15%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $8k → 15%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $4k → 15%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

VT
MI
MA
CO
MO
MD
KS
OK
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.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$18M · 184 repeat orgs$17M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

184
289

Total granted

$18M
$4.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+44%

Still filing today

8%
4%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21
HealthEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • AR
    AMERICAN ROYAL ASSOCIATION INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $7.7M · revenue +55% · 28% of their budget
  • KC
    Kansas City University
    2× · 2020–2021 · $2.4M · revenue +148%
  • TE
    THE ELLIS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2021 · $498k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • TK
    The Kansas University Endowment Associationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1.1M · revenue +64%
  • NF
    NORTHPOINT FOUNDATION KANSAS CITY COVID-19 KC TASK FORCE
    one grant, 2020 · $375k
  • HN
    HEALTHY NEVADA
    one grant, 2020 · $364k · revenue -96% · 89% of their budget
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
Labette County Medical Center

We are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare - centered around you.

Health
2
Kansas Healthcare Collaborative Inc

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.

Health
3
Jefferson County Memorial Hospital Inc

Promote and provide quality healthcare for the general commuinty of Jefferson County

Health
4
McPherson Healthcare Foundation Inc

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…

Health
5
Lindsborg Community Health Care Foundation Inc

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…

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6
Kansas Hospital Association

The vision of the Association is optimal health for Kansans. The Association's mission is to be the leading advocate and resource for members.

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7
Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas

The Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas servces the region by encouraging charitable giving benefiting the common good and the quality of life.

Philanthropy
8
South Central Community Foundation

To enhance the life, culture, and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.

Philanthropy
9
Cloud County Foundation for Health Care Inc

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
10
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
11
Kansas Health Institute

Improve the health of all kansans through nonpartisan research, education and engagement that support effective policymaking.

Science & Tech
12
McPherson Hospital Inc

Superior healthcare and exceptional service for each person, every time.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coffeyville Regional Medical Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

90 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. 90 of the 781 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.

21
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
89/90
Grantees still filing
54/90
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT: $626,844 · OtherKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIR…KANSAS CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC: $500,000 · OtherNORTHPOINT FOUNDATION KANSAS CITY COVID-19 KC TASK FORCE: $375,000 · OtherMRIGlobal: $500,000 · Other+146 more: $9,037,334 · Other+146 moreAMERICAN ROYAL ASSOCIATION INC: $7,730,631 · Recreation & SportsAMERICAN ROYAL ASSOCIATION…+1 more: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsPEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL: $3,000,000 · EducationPEMBROKE HILL SCHOOLKansas City University: $2,356,993 · EducationKansas City UniversityThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $1,100,000 · EducationThe Kansas University E…+5 more: $576,155 · Education+5 moreORACLE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,296,626 · PhilanthropyORACLE HE…THE ELLIS FOUNDATION: $498,000 · PhilanthropyTHE ELLIS…MULLINVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $284,000 · PhilanthropyMULLINVIL…Wilson Medical Center Foundation: $195,000 · PhilanthropyWilson Me…ROOKS COUNTY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $176,757 · PhilanthropyROOKS COU…Greater Kansas City Community Foundation: $100,000 · PhilanthropyHays Medical Center Foundation: $100,000 · PhilanthropyEmporia Community Foundation: $100,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $62,000 · PhilanthropyHEALTHY NEVADA: $364,239 · HealthHarper County Health Foundation: $238,000 · HealthTHRIVE ALLEN COUNTY INC: $231,690 · HealthNEWTON HEALTHCARE CORPORATION: $151,650 · HealthJOHN FITZGIBBON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $150,000 · HealthGREENWOOD COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $116,117 · HealthNemaha Valley Community Hospital: $115,000 · HealthCommunity Hospital Association Inc: $104,115 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF WICHITA INC: $100,000 · HealthCoffeyville Regional Medical Center Inc: $100,000 · HealthPHILLIPS COUNTY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $97,384 · HealthRawlins County Health Center Foundation Inc: $92,890 · HealthCarroll County Memorial Hospital: $88,399 · HealthPawnee Valley Community Hospital Inc: $79,824 · HealthSouthwest Medical Center: $78,573 · Health+5 more: $233,694 · HealthTHE HEALTHY BOURBON COUNTY ACTION T: $280,070 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS INC: $250,000 · Community ImprovementHIGH PLAINS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $157,500 · Community ImprovementGROW LOGAN COUNTY FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Community ImprovementGreater Miami County Economic Development Corporation: $131,500 · Community ImprovementHCC Network: $100,000 · Community ImprovementCENTER ON RURAL INNOVATION INC: $100,000 · Community ImprovementLindsborg Child Development Center: $845,566 · Human ServicesKC DIGITAL DRIVE INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesLittle Sisters of The Poor: $97,778 · Human Services+1 more: $30,000 · Human Services
Other$11,039,178Recreation & Sports$7,750,631Education$7,033,148Philanthropy$2,812,383Health$2,341,575Community Improvement$1,169,070Human Services$1,123,344

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN ROYAL ASSOCIATION INC: $7,730,631 over 3y, 28% of budgetPEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL: $3,000,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetKansas City University: $2,356,993 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetORACLE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,296,626 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $1,100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLindsborg Child Development Center: $845,566 over 1y, 41% of budgetMRIGlobal: $500,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ELLIS FOUNDATION: $498,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetHEALTHY NEVADA: $364,239 over 1y, 89% of budgetKansas 4-H Foundation Inc: $349,970 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetMULLINVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $284,000 over 1y, 96% of budgetTHE HEALTHY BOURBON COUNTY ACTION T: $280,070 over 1y, 63% of budgetHarper County Health Foundation: $238,000 over 2y, 67% of budgetTHRIVE ALLEN COUNTY INC: $231,690 over 1y, 12% of budgetKISMET PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $215,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetCLAY COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetClara Barton Hospital Association Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCitizens Medical Center Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWilson Medical Center Foundation: $195,000 over 1y, 49% of budgetRural Education and Workforce Alliance: $193,655 over 2y, 52% of budgetROOKS COUNTY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $176,757 over 1y, 31% of budgetHIGH PLAINS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $157,500 over 2y, 97% of budgetNEWTON HEALTHCARE CORPORATION: $151,650 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKC DIGITAL DRIVE INC: $150,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetGROW LOGAN COUNTY FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 55% of budgetJOHN FITZGIBBON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $150,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGreater Miami County Economic Development Corporation: $131,500 over 2y, 96% of budgetGREENWOOD COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $116,117 over 1y, 58% of budgetNemaha Valley Community Hospital: $115,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMCPHERSON MAIN STREET INC: $114,545 over 2y, 98% of budgetGoodland Medical Foundation: $108,205 over 1y, 32% of budgetNORTHWEST HEALTH SERVICES INC: $104,980 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Hospital Association Inc: $104,115 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF WICHITA INC: $100,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetGreater Kansas City Community Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHays Medical Center Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetHCC Network: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCoffeyville Regional Medical Center Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER ON RURAL INNOVATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetEmporia Community Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLittle Sisters of The Poor: $97,778 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPHILLIPS COUNTY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $97,384 over 1y, 73% of budgetRawlins County Health Center Foundation Inc: $92,890 over 1y, 26% of budgetCarroll County Memorial Hospital: $88,399 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPawnee Valley Community Hospital Inc: $79,824 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSouthwest Medical Center: $78,573 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOSMOSPHERE INC: $75,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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.

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 Patterson Family …Kansas Health Foundat…The Sunderland Founda…Greater Northwest Kan…Greater Kansas City C…Sunflower Foundation …Dane G Hansen Foundat…Jewish Community Foun…Kansas Association of…Ewing Marion Kauffman…Greater Salina Commun…Health Forward Founda…
The Patterson Family FoundationMO94.3× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 37%
  • Center On Rural Innovation Inc: 37% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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

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How do I get to Patterson Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Patterson Family 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 781 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home