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Phil and Mary Pattison Family Found

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.

$115k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
Largest
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 FY20202024.

Religion$82kHuman Services$69kHousing & Shelter$50kEducation$43kInternational$15kAnimals$10kYouth Development$10kPublic Benefit$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k29 grants · $95k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$3,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$10,000
CITY UNION MISSION$10,000
LAUGH FOUNDATION$6,748
Individual grant recipient$5,000
ELEOS MINISTRY$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
NHRI LEGACY FUND$5,000
CITY UNION MISSION$5,000
JUST HOMES$5,000
ELEOS MINISTRY$5,000
A TURNING POINT$5,000
YOUNG LIFE$5,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$5,000
GIVING THE BASICS$5,000
CITY UNION MISSION$5,000
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 (FY23–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $3k → 12%RESTORING DIGNITY: $2k → 12%GOOD DADS: $2k → 15%GOOD DADS: $2k → 15%GOOD DADS: $1k → 15%EXCEPTIONAL HUMANS: $250 → 8%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.

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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$157k · 11 repeat orgs$137k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
11

Total granted

$157k
$90k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+39%

Still filing today

55%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterArts & CultureHealthAnimalsPhilanthropyOther

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

  • CU
    City Union Mission
    4× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +5%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF SAN LUCAS
    4× · 2020–2023 · $19k · revenue +37%
  • NS
    NORTHLAND SHEPHERD'S CENTER
    2× · 2023–2024 · $14k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • OC
    OURAY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP
    one grant, 2020 · $33k
  • SC
    SHEPHARD CENTER OF THE NORTHLAND
    one grant, 2020 · $26k
  • SC
    SHEPHERD CENTER NORTHLAND
    one grant, 2021 · $8k

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
North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc
Community Improvement
2
Welcome House Inc

The Welcome House is a non-profit, sober living, recovery program (incorporated in 1971) with the sole purpose of educating and rehabilitating the adult male alcoholic/ addict and the expressed mission of returning the individual to…

Health
3
Good Samaritan Mission Inc

To care for the needy, share the good news of jesus christ and change lives by providing counseling, life skill training, dignity gained through work and christ-centered discipleship.

4
Good Samaritan Boys Ranch

Good Samaritan Boys Ranch is on a mission to confront the forces that push families into foster care and transform the systems that fail youth as they leave it through a spectrum of residential and community-based services that bring…

Human Services
5
Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc

The mission of Good Shepherd is to feed the hungry, shelter the homeless and foster transition to housing.

Housing & Shelter
6
Freedom House Ministries

House of Hope Kansas City is unique, because we work with teens and their parents to find solutions and ultimately, restoration of healthy family relationships. We serve families in crisis with our program for residents to experience the…

Education
7
Restoration House of Greater Kansas City

ReHope empowers and elevates survivors of human trafficking and sexual exploitation through its faith-based, trauma-informed residence and recovery programs.

Housing & Shelter
8
Shepherds of Independence

To provide shelter, plus care, that meets physical, mental spiritual and social needs, while fostering dignity and independence in an affordable, warm, home-like atmosphere, to the mentally and physically challenged, to the displaced or…

Human Services
9
Habitat for Humanity of Okaloosa County Inc

Okaloosa habitat for humanity is a non-profit, christian organization dedicated to eliminating substandard housing in okaloosa county. we provide opportunites for the community to show god's love in action. through partnership with people…

Housing & Shelter
10
Good Samaritan House of Granite City Inc

The good samaritan house enriches the lives of homeless women and children by supporting them in a loving christian environment. while providing safe and temporary housing, basic human needs and supportive services, the good samaritan…

Housing & Shelter
11
West Vue Inc

To reach out to the elderly in need, offering dignity, respect, christian love and care within an environment which reflects god's love for each of us.

12
The Glory House of Sioux Falls

The mission of the glory house is to provide opportunities for learning and empowerment of individuals, families, and communities. restorative and preventive programs based on spiritual and social principles of living are presented in a…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open Door Mission D/B/a Open Door Mission & Lydia House and the most unlike its peers is Small College Basketball Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 24. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%14%<5yr12%14%5–10yr16%19%10–20yr15%19%20–35yr16%5%35–55yr24%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%13%<5yr12%5%5–10yr16%16%10–20yr15%8%20–35yr16%7%35–55yr24%53%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 4% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
1/23
the rest of the field
12%
4,543/39,468

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

18 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 35 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/18
Grantees still filing
11/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OURAY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP — $33,000 · OtherOURAY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIPSHEPHARD CENTER OF THE NORTHLAND — $26,000 · OtherSHEPHARD CENTER OF THE NORTHLANDIndividual grant recipient — $23,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLAUGHH FOUNDATION — $15,248 · OtherLAUGHH FOUNDATIONTRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH — $15,000 · OtherTRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCHELEOS MINISTRY — $10,000 · OtherSHEPHERD CENTER NORTHLAND — $7,500 · OtherSMALL COLLEGE BASKETBALL FOUNDATION — $7,500 · OtherGRIZZLY DISCOVERY CENTER INC — $6,500 · Other+15 more — $47,100 · Other+15 moreCity Union Mission — $40,000 · Housing & ShelterCity Union Miss…JUST HOMES — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterJUST HOMESHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $32,850 · EducationHILLSDALE C…NORTHLAND SHEPHERD'S CENTER — $14,000 · Arts & CultureQUALITY HILL PRODUCTIONS — $7,510 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF SAN LUCAS — $19,000 · PhilanthropyGOOD DADS INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesOPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE — $3,000 · Human ServicesRESTORING DIGNITY — $2,000 · Human Services+1 more — $250 · Human ServicesA Turning Point Ministry Inc — $8,000 · Public Benefit
Other$190,848Housing & Shelter$45,000Education$32,850Arts & Culture$21,510Philanthropy$19,000Human Services$10,250Public Benefit$8,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCity Union Mission — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $32,850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF SAN LUCAS — $19,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHLAND SHEPHERD'S CENTER — $14,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetA Turning Point Ministry Inc — $8,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetQUALITY HILL PRODUCTIONS — $7,510 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetGRIZZLY DISCOVERY CENTER INC — $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGIVING THE BASICS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWAR HORSES FOR VETERANS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGOOD DADS INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetYOUNG LIFE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDynamic Strides Therapy Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRESTORING DIGNITY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWAYSIDE WAIFS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL HUMANS INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds City Union Mission
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF SAN LUCAS
  • Who funds NORTHLAND SHEPHERD'S CENTER
  • Who funds A Turning Point Ministry Inc
  • Who funds QUALITY HILL PRODUCTIONS
  • Who funds SMALL COLLEGE BASKETBALL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds GRIZZLY DISCOVERY CENTER INC
  • Who funds GIVING THE BASICS INC
  • Who funds WAR HORSES FOR VETERANS INC
  • Who funds GOOD DADS INC
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE
  • Who funds JUST HOMES
  • Who funds OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE
  • Who funds Dynamic Strides Therapy Inc
  • Who funds RESTORING DIGNITY
  • Who funds WAYSIDE WAIFS INC
  • Who funds EXCEPTIONAL HUMANS 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.

Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO14.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Servant Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Phil and Mary Pattison Family Found 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    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 35 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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