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The Patterson Family Foundation

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.

$57M
Granted FY2024still arriving
262
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$9.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.

Education$34MPhilanthropy$33MHealth$22MHuman Services$17MFood & Nutrition$7.8MCommunity Improvement$7.7MPublic Safety & Disaster$5.9MPublic Benefit$3.8MOther$0
02FY2024 · 262 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k65 grants · $1.7M
  • $50k–250k151 grants · $19M
  • $250k+35 grants · $37M
$100,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.5B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS$9,000,000
KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCES$2,500,000
KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS$2,256,425
EISENHOWER FOUNDATION$2,000,000
KANSAS CITY UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND BIOSCIENCES$1,800,000
MISSOURI EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION$1,500,000
FIRST HAND FOUNDATION$1,108,900
GREATER NORTHWEST KS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,000,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000,000
AVILA UNIVERSITY$1,000,000
KANSAS LEADERSHIP CENTER$1,000,000
WASHBURN UNIVERSITY$1,000,000
PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC$885,354
Individual grant recipient$850,000
WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$832,000
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 (FY22–24, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%KANSAS PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $10k → 5%GROW & LEARN CHILDCARE CENTER: $175k → 11%SMOKY HILL CHILD CARE FOUNDATION: $175k → 12%FREDONIA CHILD CARE CENTER: $150k → 14%KANSAS PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $5k → 5%BUILDING BLOCKS COMMUNITY CHILD CARE INC: $159k → 11%KANSAS PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION: $10k → 14%NORTON AREA CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION: $174k → 16%DONIPHAN DARLINGS: $144k → 11%SYLVAN SENIOR CENTER INC: $11k → 11%PHILLIPSBURG CHILD CARE CENTER: $129k → 12%TREE HOUSE EARLY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $175k → 15%SPROUT HOUSE LEARNING CENTER: $100k → 10%LITTLE HUSKIES CHILDCARE CO: $175k → 11%ALLEN REGIONAL TRANSIT INC (ART): $183k → 16%PARSONS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $53k → 15%MENNONITE BOARD OF MISSIONS AND CHARITIES OF KANSAS INC: $215k → 9%ORAL HEALTH KANSAS INC: $3k → 14%FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $168k → 18%KC DIGITAL DRIVE: $160k → 15%HESSTON COMMUNITY CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION: $175k → 9%KC DIGITAL DRIVE: $3k → 15%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $20k → 15%KANSAS CHILDREN'S SERVICE LEAGUE: $175k → 16%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $15k → 15%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $15k → 15%LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR: $14k → 15%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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AR
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GA

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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$69M · 63 repeat orgs$69M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

63 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 178 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
199

Total granted

$69M
$34M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+5%

Still filing today

38%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • KA
    Kansas Association of Community Foundations
    3× · 2022–2024 · $28M · revenue +34%
  • KC
    Kansas City University
    3× · 2022–2024 · $6.8M · revenue +45%
  • AR
    AMERICAN ROYAL ASSOCIATION INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $6.2M · revenue +78% · 41% of their budget

Funded once

  • KC
    KANSAS CHILDREN'S CABINET AND TRUST FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $2.5M
  • KA
    KS ASSOCIATION OF CHILDCARE RESOURCES
    one grant, 2022 · $2.0M
  • KH
    KVC HOSPITALS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $1.5M · revenue +19%

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
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
2
Labette County Medical Center

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

Health
3
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
4
Western Kansas Community Foundation

Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.

Philanthropy
5
Jefferson County Memorial Hospital Inc

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

Health
6
Community Health Center of Se Kansas Inc

To provide quality, affordable, accessible medical, dental and behavioral health care to anyone regardless of ability to pay.

Health
7
Atchison Community Health Clinic Inc

Atchison community health clinic exists to promote wellness by providing quality healthcare to all.

Health
8
Kansas Health Institute

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

Science & Tech
9
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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10
Kansas Children's Foundation

The kansas children's foundation is dedicated to providing resources including financial and emotional support to children and families across the state of kansas.

Health
11
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
12
Kansas City Regional Destination Develop Ment Foundation

The foundation enhances the quality of life for the kansas city region through tourism advocacy and workforce development.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas Ffa Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ces Best. 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 backsteadyHealth Access Advocacy and …Senior Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Community Arts CentersYouth Mentoring ProgramsEquine Therapy ProgramsPublic Library OperationsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Domestic Violence ServicesLocal History MuseumsYouth Sports ProgramsMilitary Veterans SupportEnvironmental Conservation …Policy Research and AdvocacyDevelopmental Disabilities …Community College Foundatio…Affordable Housing Developm…Community Foundations
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 26 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%9%<5yr11%12%5–10yr16%19%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr15%22%35–55yr25%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%5%<5yr11%37%5–10yr16%14%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr15%8%35–55yr25%25%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.5%1/193
the rest of the field
9%
1,529/17,329

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

158 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. 158 of the 452 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.

42
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
157/158
Grantees still filing
79/158
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KANSAS ATHLETICS INC — $3,247,041 · OtherKANSAS ATHLETICS INCKANSAS CHILDREN'S CABINET AND TRUST FUND — $2,500,000 · OtherThe Eisenhower Foundation — $2,150,000 · OtherKS ASSOCIATION OF CHILDCARE RESOURCES — $2,000,000 · OtherKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY — $1,859,418 · Other+138 more — $42,337,123 · Other+138 moreKansas Association of Community Foundations — $27,986,554 · PhilanthropyKansas Association of Community …THE ELLIS FOUNDATION — $4,415,000 · PhilanthropyTHE ELLIS FOUNDATIONMISSOURI EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION INC — $1,510,000 · Philanthropy+8 more — $2,393,091 · Philanthropy+8 moreKansas City University — $6,850,000 · EducationKansas City U…Oklahoma State University Foundation — $1,773,556 · EducationOklahoma Stat…AVILA UNIVERSITY — $1,070,000 · EducationAVILA UNIVERS…Kansas Leadership Center — $1,000,000 · EducationKansas Leader…PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC — $885,354 · EducationPHILLIPS FUND…WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $832,000 · EducationWICHITA STATE…Kansas Health Science University Inc — $575,620 · EducationCLOUD COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $500,000 · Education+6 more — $1,438,712 · Education+6 moreUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $2,908,861 · HealthKVC HOSPITALS INC — $1,538,649 · HealthFIRST HAND FOUNDATION — $1,108,900 · HealthSCK Health Foundation — $630,000 · HealthPratt Health Foundation — $320,700 · HealthLabette Health Foundation Inc — $309,950 · Health+10 more — $2,231,117 · HealthAMERICAN ROYAL ASSOCIATION INC — $6,248,976 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $177,957 · Recreation & SportsKANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES — $2,500,000 · EnvironmentWildwood Outdoor Education Center — $164,000 · EnvironmentMENNONITE BOARD OF MISSIONS AND CHARITIES OF KANSAS INC — $215,000 · Human ServicesALLEN REGIONAL TRANSIT INC — $183,093 · Human ServicesHESSTON COMMUNITY CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION — $175,000 · Human ServicesSMOKY HILL CHILD CARE FOUNDATION — $175,000 · Human ServicesTREE HOUSE EARLY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $175,000 · Human ServicesLittle Huskies Childcare — $175,000 · Human ServicesGROW & LEARN CHILDCARE CENTER INC — $175,000 · Human ServicesKANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE — $175,000 · Human ServicesNORTON AREA CHILDCARE ASSOCIATION — $173,750 · Human ServicesFAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC — $167,767 · Human ServicesKC DIGITAL DRIVE INC — $162,500 · Human ServicesBuilding Blocks Community Child Care Inc — $158,631 · Human Services
Other$54,093,582Philanthropy$36,304,645Education$14,925,242Health$9,048,177Recreation & Sports$6,426,933Environment$2,664,000Human Services$2,110,741

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%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKansas City University — $6,850,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetAMERICAN ROYAL ASSOCIATION INC — $6,248,976 over 3y, 41% of budgetTHE ELLIS FOUNDATION — $4,415,000 over 3y, 39% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $2,908,861 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetKANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES — $2,500,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetThe Eisenhower Foundation — $2,150,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetOklahoma State University Foundation — $1,773,556 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetKVC HOSPITALS INC — $1,538,649 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetMISSOURI EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION INC — $1,510,000 over 1y, 94% of budgetNEW HOPE SHELTER INC — $1,200,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetFIRST HAND FOUNDATION — $1,108,900 over 1y, 100% of budgetAVILA UNIVERSITY — $1,070,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetKansas Leadership Center — $1,000,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetPHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC — $885,354 over 1y, 11% of budgetWICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $832,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetDANE G HANSEN FOUNDATION — $780,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetSCK Health Foundation — $630,000 over 1y, 82% of budgetKANSAS SAMPLER FOUNDATION INC — $615,930 over 2y, 74% of budgetSTEMM FIRE FOUNDATION — $600,000 over 1y, 99% of budgetVICTORIA COMMUNITY COALITION INC — $590,102 over 1y, 39% of budgetKansas Health Science University Inc — $575,620 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetKansas 4-H Foundation Inc — $510,700 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetCLOUD COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 1y, 49% of budgetGROW HAYS INC — $500,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetMISSOURI 4-H FOUNDATION — $484,617 over 1y, 54% of budgetORACLE HEALTH FOUNDATION — $461,028 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetUNITED WE — $425,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetFLINT HILLS TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $405,712 over 1y, 54% of budgetGREAT BEND ALIVE INC — $394,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetGREATER NORTHWEST KANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $393,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCentral Kansas Community Foundation — $388,483 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetHCC Network — $360,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST MISSOURIINC — $338,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetCatholic Charities of Northern Kansas Inc — $311,100 over 1y, 10% of budgetLabette Health Foundation Inc — $309,950 over 1y, 15% of budgetINTEGRATED BEHAVIORAL TECHNOLOGIES INC — $309,694 over 1y, 13% of budgetSUNFLOWER RAIL-TRAILS CONSERVANCY INC — $306,375 over 1y, 100% of budgetPIVOTAL HEALTH & WELLNESS INC — $300,000 over 1y, 80% of budgetROOKS COUNTY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $300,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association — $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANDBE HOME INC — $300,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetTHE HEALTHY BOURBON COUNTY ACTION T — $280,070 over 1y, 35% of budgetMcPherson County Community Foundation — $275,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF WICHITA INC — $250,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetCOLBY COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetLEGACY A REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetHeartland Foundation — $246,510 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetKANSAS FFA FOUNDATION INC — $245,000 over 1y, 21% 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.

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

Open a dossier: Patterson Family Foundation · Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies · Sunflower Foundation Health Care for Kansans · Greater Salina Community Foundation · Dane G Hansen Foundation · Kansas Health Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Greater Northwest Kansas Community Foundation · Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Greater Manhattan Community Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman 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 The 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    48report 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

    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 The Patterson Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 452 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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