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Phil & Mary Pattison Family Foundation at a glance

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Phil & Mary Pattison Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$137k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$82kHuman Services$69kHousing & Shelter$50kEducation$43kInternational$15kAnimals$10kYouth Development$10kPublic Benefit$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $87k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
$4,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$25,000
GEPC$15,000
CITY UNION MISSION$10,000
A TURNING POINT$8,000
OPEN DOOR MISSION$7,500
Individual grant recipient$7,500
SHEPHERD CENTER OF NORTHLAND$6,700
Individual grant recipient$6,500
OUR SAVIOR LUTHERAN CHURCH$6,000
Individual grant recipient$5,100
PLATTE COUNTY HEALTH DEPT FOOD PANTRY$5,000
ELEOS MINISTRIES$5,000
NHRI$4,000
NEBRASKA FFA FOUNDATION$4,000
AMETHYST PLACE$3,000
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 (FY23–25, $20k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $3k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $8k → 12%GOOD DADS: $2k → 15%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
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.
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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$204k · 14 repeat orgs$202k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
20

Total granted

$204k
$128k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+66%

Still filing today

64%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterArts & CultureAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CU
    City Union Mission
    5× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +5%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF SAN LUCAS
    5× · 2020–2025 · $22k · revenue +37%
  • AT
    A Turning Point Ministry Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $16k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • OC
    OURAY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP
    one grant, 2020 · $33k
  • SC
    SHEPHARD CENTER OF THE NORTHLAND
    one grant, 2020 · $26k
  • EM
    ELEOS MINISTRY
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
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
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
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
4
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.

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5
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
6
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…

—
7
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.

—
8
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
9
New Visions Homeless Services

Provide help, hope and opportunities to our neighbors who are experiencing homelessness and hunger in the Council Bluffs and Omaha communities.

Human Services
10
Shelter House Community Shelter and Transition Services

Through shelter and housing, advocacy and supportive services, our mission is to prevent and end homelessness in our community.

—
11
The Dwelling Place

The Dwelling Place is a Christ-centered ministry providing healing and hope to victims of domestic abuse through supportive services and a safe, transitional place to call home.

Human Services
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open Door Mission D/B/a Open Door Mission & Lydia House; the most unlike its peers is War Horses for Veterans Inc. 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

22 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. 22 of the 52 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
12/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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: $17,748 · OtherLAUGHH FOUNDATIONTRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH: $15,000 · OtherTRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCHGEPC: $15,000 · OtherGEPCELEOS MINISTRY: $10,000 · Other+34 more: $131,400 · Other+34 moreHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $57,850 · EducationHILLSDALE COLL…City Union Mission: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterCity Union Mi…JUST HOMES: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterJUST HOMESNORTHLAND SHEPHERD'S CENTER: $14,000 · Arts & CultureQUALITY HILL PRODUCTIONS: $8,510 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF SAN LUCAS: $22,000 · PhilanthropyOPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE: $10,500 · Human ServicesGOOD DADS INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesRESTORING DIGNITY: $2,000 · Human Services+1 more: $250 · Human ServicesA Turning Point Ministry Inc: $16,000 · Public Benefit
Other$271,148Education$57,850Housing & Shelter$55,000Arts & Culture$22,510Philanthropy$22,000Human Services$19,750Public Benefit$16,000

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 budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $57,850 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCity Union Mission: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF SAN LUCAS: $22,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetA Turning Point Ministry Inc: $16,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHLAND SHEPHERD'S CENTER: $14,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetOPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE: $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetQUALITY HILL PRODUCTIONS: $8,510 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetGIVING THE BASICS INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD DADS INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGRIZZLY DISCOVERY CENTER INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWAR HORSES FOR VETERANS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELEOS MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNEBRASKA FFA FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmethyst Place Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDynamic Strides Therapy Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRESTORING DIGNITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWAYSIDE WAIFS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WESTON HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL HUMANS INC: $250 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 HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds City Union Mission ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF SAN LUCAS ↗
  • Who funds A Turning Point Ministry Inc ↗
  • Who funds NORTHLAND SHEPHERD'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds QUALITY HILL PRODUCTIONS ↗
  • Who funds GIVING THE BASICS INC ↗
  • Who funds SMALL COLLEGE BASKETBALL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GOOD DADS INC ↗
  • Who funds GRIZZLY DISCOVERY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WAR HORSES FOR VETERANS INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds ELEOS MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds JUST HOMES ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA FFA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Amethyst Place Inc ↗
  • Who funds Dynamic Strides Therapy Inc ↗

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.

Greater Kansas City C…Servant FoundationAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, 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.

    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 52 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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