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Patterson Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
119
Grants FY2024still arriving
34
States reached
$653k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$4.9MHealth$3.4MHuman Services$997kAnimals$565kPublic Benefit$307kFood & Nutrition$146kCommunity Improvement$62kPhilanthropy$58kOther$0
02FY2024 · 119 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k85 grants · $167k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $596k
  • $250k+1 grant · $653k
$3,000
Median grant
34
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC$652,837
HOPE DENTAL CLINIC$41,707
CARE CLINIC$40,000
NATIONAL EDUCATION FOR ASSISTANCE DOG SERVICES INC$35,000
KIDS IN NEED OF DENTISTRY$30,000
CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE$29,800
COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC$29,139
VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE BERKSHIRES$25,000
CAN DO CANINES$25,000
AMERICA'S TOOTHFAIRY NATIONAL CHILDREN'S ORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION$25,000
DUO DOGS INC$20,000
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF COSMETIC DENTISTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$20,000
DENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK$20,000
SMITH ISLAND UNITED$18,000
Individual grant recipient$16,406
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NATIONAL EDUCATION FOR ASSISTANCE DOG SERVICES INC: $50k → 11%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIN: $20k → 8%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $35k → 10%NEW HORIZONS SERVICE DOGS INC: $16k → 12%LOVE IN ACTION OF THE TRI-CITIES: $10k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $30k → 8%OCCUPAWS GUIDE DOG ASSOCIATION: $10k → 10%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $65k → 8%CANINE PARTNERS OF THE ROCKIES: $13k → 10%EVANSVILLE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER INC: $5k → 15%CIRCLE TAIL INC: $11k → 6%ASSISTANCE DOGS INTERNATIONAL: $34k → 18%SUMMIT ASSISTANCE DOGS: $25k → 11%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $20k → 8%INTERNATIONAL GUIDING EYES DBA GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $20k → 14%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $15k → 10%LOVE IN ACTION OF THE TRI-CITIES: $10k → 8%OCCUPAWS GUIDE DOGS ASSOCIATION: $8k → 10%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $35k → 8%ASSISTANCE DOGS INTERNATIONAL: $21k → 18%SUMMIT ASSISTANCE DOGS: $25k → 11%NATIONAL EDUCATION FOR ASSISTANCE DOG SERVICES INC: $35k → 11%INTERNATIONAL GUIDING EYES INC DBA GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $14k → 14%LOVE IN ACTION OF THE TRI-CITIES: $7k → 8%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $31k → 8%ASSISTANCE DOGS INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 18%NATIONAL EDUCATION FOR ASSISTANCE DOG SERVICES INC: $35k → 11%INTERNATIONAL GUIDING EYES INC: $10k → 14%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $24k → 8%NATIONAL EDUCATION FOR ASSISTANCE DOG SERVICES INC: $12k → 11%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $32k → 6%INTERNATIONAL GUIDING EYES INC DBA GUIDE DOGS FO AMERICA: $5k → 14%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $20k → 8%SOUTH BAY CHILDREN'S HEALTH CENTER: $20k → 14%ADA JENKINS CENTER: $10k → 10%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $20k → 8%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $32k → 6%SOUTH BAY CHILDREN'S HEALTH CENTER: $11k → 14%ADA JENKINS CENTER: $10k → 10%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $12k → 8%SOUTH BAY CHILDREN'S HEALTH CENTER: $10k → 14%ADA JENKINS CENTER: $10k → 10%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $30k → 6%SOUTH BAY CHILDREN'S HEALTH CENTER: $10k → 14%SOUTH BAY CHILDREN'S HEALTH CENTER ASSOCIATION: $10k → 14%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $10k → 6%UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL: $100k → 14%ENDURING FREEDOM MINISTRIES: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.7M · 129 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

129 repeat relationships — 62 still active in FY2024, 67 since wound down; 48 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

129
265

Total granted

$8.7M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+25%

Still filing today

76%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $793k 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
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsFood & NutritionEducationHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • AV
    AMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $307k · revenue +90%
  • FS
    FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $209k · revenue +5%
  • CD
    CAN DO CANINES
    7× · 2018–2024 · $186k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • UG
    UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +32%
  • DL
    DENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK (FORMERLY NFDH)
    one grant, 2021 · $40k
  • NE
    NATIONAL EDUCATION FOR ASSISTANCE DOG SERVICES
    one grant, 2021 · $35k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Community Dental Care

Our mission is to provide culturally sensitive community oral health care, preventive education, professional training, and to advocate for access for all. our vision is that all people will have access to high quality, affordable dental…

Health
2
Montgomery County Free Clinic Inc

Montgomery county free clinic, inc. offers high-quality medical and dental care and health promotion and disease prevention services to residents of montgomery county who lack insurance and would otherwise go without basic health care. to…

Health
3
North Carolina Dental Society Foundation Inc

Organization's mission is to identify underserved areas of the state where there are not enough dental practitioners to adequately address the oral health needs of the community, as well as areas with high unemployment or poverty. to…

Health
4
Rawlins County Dental Clinic Fund dba Northwest Smile Center

Continue to operate a self-sustaining, state of the art dental clinic that serves all patients including those who are insured, under insured, uninsured or medicade participants for residents of northwest kansas and surrounding areas.

Health
5
Dental Clinics North

To provide comprehensive public dental health care services to the communities of northern michigan and neighboring regions.

Health
6
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.

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7
Fountain Clinic

Operate a free\low cost dental and medical clinic to assist the uninsured and under-insured unable to afford medical care.

Health
8
San Antonio Christian Dental Clinic

Sa christian dental clinic's mission is to extend christ's healing by providing charitable dental care to underserved bexar county adults. the vision of the clinic is a commitment to creating a community in which dental care and optimal…

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9
Midland Ctr for Accessible Health Care

Helping Hands Dental Center is the community's primary nonprofit agency promoting oral health initiatives and providing dental services for Medicaid eligible adults.

Health
10
Health and Hope Clinic Inc

The mission of the health and hope clinic is to provide help and hope to the hurting. the clinic provides free and charitable medical and dental care to qualified individuals with limited income, no access to care, and no health insurance.

Health
11
Hope Medical Clinic Inc

Hope is a not-for-profit interdenominational christian medical, dental, and social service organization. hope's goal is to provide compassionate and practical help, ministering to the whole person with dignity and respect. this includes…

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12
Global Dental Relief

Global Dental Relief GDR brings free dental treatment and preventive care to 23,000 children annually from remote villages charity schools and orphanages. In addition GDR provides oral health education a new toothbrush and preventive oral…

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health Intervention Services and the most unlike its peers is Midwest Australian Shepherd Rescue Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAnimal Rescue and ShelterMilitary Veterans SupportFood Banks and PantriesAffordable Housing Developm…Community Food PantriesImmigrant Worker SupportCommunity College Foundatio…Policy Research and AdvocacyCommunity FoundationsFaith-Based Social ServicesDomestic Violence ServicesCancer Support ServicesChristian Missionary Organi…Equine Therapy ProgramsUnited Way AffiliatesAffordable Housing Construc…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Environmental Conservation …School District FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 28 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%2%<5yr12%7%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr17%31%20–35yr16%27%35–55yr18%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%1%<5yr12%2%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr16%32%35–55yr18%24%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.4%1/279
the rest of the field
10%
3,829/38,710

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.

04the grantee network

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

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 261 of the 443 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
56
Early backer (in before they grew)
256/261
Grantees still filing
171/261
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA — $4,146,541 · OtherSCHOLARSHIP AMERICAOPERATION GRACE MN — $340,600 · OtherOPERATION GRACE MN+99 more — $1,616,914 · Other+99 moreDENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK — $338,922 · HealthDENTAL LIFELINE NETW…KIDS IN NEED OF DENTISTRY — $116,800 · HealthKIDS IN NEED OF DENT…AMERICA'S DENTISTS CARE FOUNDATION — $110,000 · HealthAMERICA'S DENTISTS C…INTERFAITH DENTAL CLINIC OF NASHVILLE — $91,918 · HealthC A R E Clinic — $83,700 · HealthAMERICA'S TOOTHFAIRY NATIONAL CHILDREN'S ORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $75,000 · HealthTRINITY FREE CLINIC INC — $71,250 · HealthCONEJO FREE CLINIC — $69,000 · Health+44 more — $960,013 · Health+44 moreFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC — $209,189 · Human ServicesFREEDOM SERV…NEADS INC — $137,000 · Human ServicesNEADS INCCANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE — $103,900 · Human ServicesCANINE PARTN…UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesUNION GOSPEL…GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $70,000 · Human ServicesGUIDE DOGS F…ASSISTANCE DOGS INTERNATIONAL INC — $65,475 · Human ServicesASSISTANCE D…SOUTH BAY CHILDRENS HEALTH CENTER — $60,965 · Human ServicesSOUTH BAY CH…Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — $50,000 · Human ServicesSUMMIT ASSISTANCE DOGS — $50,000 · Human ServicesInternational Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America — $49,284 · Human Services+14 more — $227,910 · Human Services+14 moreSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC — $652,837 · EducationAMERICAN ACADEMY OF COSMETIC DENTISTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $54,300 · Education+9 more — $78,100 · EducationAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC — $307,108 · Public Benefit+1 more — $10,000 · Public BenefitK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $35,000 · AnimalsAUSTIN DOG ALLIANCE — $14,000 · AnimalsDogs For Diabetics - dba National Institute of Canine Service and Training — $7,500 · AnimalsMidwest Australian Shepherd Rescue Inc — $6,900 · AnimalsMISSION ANIMAL HOSPITAL — $5,200 · AnimalsRETRIEVING INDEPENDENCE INC — $4,050 · AnimalsEVERYONE FOR VETERANS — $30,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC — $15,250 · PhilanthropyNORTH DAKOTA DENTAL FOUNDATION — $13,900 · PhilanthropyMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $4,050 · Philanthropy
Other$6,104,055Health$1,916,603Human Services$1,123,723Education$785,237Public Benefit$317,108Animals$72,650Philanthropy$63,200

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC — $652,837 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOPERATION GRACE MN — $340,600 over 3y, 71% of budgetDENTAL LIFELINE NETWORK — $338,922 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC — $307,108 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC — $209,189 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetHOPE DENTAL CLINIC — $194,364 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetCAN DO CANINES — $186,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetNEADS INC — $137,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetKIDS IN NEED OF DENTISTRY — $116,800 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetAMERICA'S DENTISTS CARE FOUNDATION — $110,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetCANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE — $103,900 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetINTERFAITH DENTAL CLINIC OF NASHVILLE — $91,918 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetC A R E Clinic — $83,700 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INC — $75,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICA'S TOOTHFAIRY NATIONAL CHILDREN'S ORAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetTRINITY FREE CLINIC INC — $71,250 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONEJO FREE CLINIC — $69,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetASSISTANCE DOGS INTERNATIONAL INC — $65,475 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetSOUTH BAY CHILDRENS HEALTH CENTER — $60,965 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSMITH ISLAND UNITED INC — $57,000 over 4y, 35% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF COSMETIC DENTISTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $54,300 over 5y, 9.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE — $54,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWAUKESHA COUNTY COMMUNITY DENTAL CLINIC INC — $52,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSUMMIT ASSISTANCE DOGS — $50,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetInternational Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America — $49,284 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOLLAND FREE HEALTH CLINIC — $48,800 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetCommunity Dental Clinic Inc — $46,639 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetPANCARE OF FLORIDA INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMOAB FREE HEALTH CLINIC — $45,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetLAHAI HEALTH — $40,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMATTHEW 25 INC — $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAHABA VALLEY HEALTH CARE INC — $32,040 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetDENTISTS ON WHEELS — $32,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetMERCY HEALTH CENTER INC — $32,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetLOVE INC OF THE TRI-CITIES — $31,730 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetOCCUPAWS GUIDE DOG ASSOCIATION — $31,030 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetSAMARITAN HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER — $31,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEVERYONE FOR VETERANS — $30,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetAda Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc — $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTEXAS HEARING & SERVICE DOGS INC — $30,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRAL ARIZONA DENTAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION — $28,400 over 5y, 1.8% of budget
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.

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.

Oral Health Internati…Carequest Foundation …Delta Dental Communit…Americares Foundation…Highmark FoundationDirect ReliefDelta Dental FundMedica FoundationNational Association …CareQuest Institute f…StratacorDelta Dental of Minne…
Oral Health International FoundationVA43.8× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Oral Health International Foundation · Carequest Foundation Inc · Delta Dental Community Care Foundation · Americares Foundation Inc · Highmark Foundation · Direct Relief · Delta Dental Fund · Medica Foundation · National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics Inc · CareQuest Institute for Oral Health Inc · Stratacor · Delta Dental of Minnesota

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 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.

2024
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no gov · 80%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Smith Island United Inc — 96% of income from government
  • Pancare of Florida Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • Family Health Centers of Southwest Florida Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Volunteers in Medicine-Berkshires Inc — 10% of income from government
  • The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Neads Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Covenant House Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
66report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Patterson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Patterson 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 443 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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