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The Patterson 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LANAKILA PACIFIC FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| BIG - BROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN | $50,000 |
| PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $364k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 31% of The Patterson Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 73% of the giving stays in HI; read by stated purpose it is 45% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- LPLANAKILA PACIFIC FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $163k · revenue +35%
- PPPATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS4× · 2022–2025 · $121k · revenue +38%
- HHHOSPICE HAWAII INC2× · 2023–2024 · $80k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- KHKapi'olani Health Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $45k · revenue +61%
ASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAIIone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue 0%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The organization rescues unwanted, injured, and neglected animals and rehomes them into forever homes. the organization promotes the benefits or spaying & neutering pets, educates the community about the humane treatment of animals, and is…
The mission of the hawaii island humane society is to prevent cruelty to animals, eliminate pet over population, and enhance the bond between humans and animals.
To improve the lives of those we touch by offering support, guidance and compassionate care of body, mind and spirit.
None
Striving to enhance communications, promote equality and create opportunities for hawaii's blind and visually impaired.
To improve the health and well-being of our community.
To provide a safety net for Kauai's homeless pets that cannot be assisted through existing Island Rescue efforts.
Run a spay and neuter clinic for the community of molokai. the agency also operates an animal management program working on education, preventive care, and pet identification in the community.
The mission of kuakini foundation is to improve the health status of the community by: providing comprehensive health care services and programs at reasonable cost; continuously improving the quality of health care services and programs;…
To provide medical, nursing, counseling and other supportive services necessary for individuals with life-limiting illnesses and their families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaiian Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Journeys End Animal Sanctuary Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 16 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 LANAKILA PACIFIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE HAWAII INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Kapi'olani Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds KAUAI HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WHITE STAR FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER OF OAHU ↗
- Who funds COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Journeys End Animal Sanctuary 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.
Open a dossier: Atherton Family Foundation · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 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.
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.
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