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The Patterson Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$255k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$163kHealth$155kAnimals$141kHuman Services$121kHousing & Shelter$95kYouth Development$25kEducation$22kCrime & Legal$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LANAKILA PACIFIC FOUNDATION: $100k → 9%PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $50k → 5%LANAKILA PACIFIC FOUNDATION: $40k → 9%PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $45k → 5%HOSPICE HAWAII INC: $40k → 9%PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $19k → 5%HOSPICE HAWAII INC: $40k → 9%PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $7k → 5%LANAKILA PACIFIC FOUNDATION: $23k → 9%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 31% of The Patterson Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 73% of the giving stays in HI; by stated purpose, 45%.

The Patterson Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$526k · 8 repeat orgs$214k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
6

Total granted

$526k
$134k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
0%

Still filing today

88%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthPublic BenefitOther
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

  • LP
    LANAKILA PACIFIC FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $163k · revenue +35%
  • PP
    PATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS
    4× · 2022–2025 · $121k · revenue +38%
  • HH
    HOSPICE HAWAII INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $80k · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • KH
    Kapi'olani Health Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $45k · revenue +61%
  • ASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAII
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue 0%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
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
West Hawaii Humane Society Inc
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2
Hawaii Pet Network Inc

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…

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3
Hawaii Island Humane Society Spca

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.

Animals
4
Hospice of Hilo

To improve the lives of those we touch by offering support, guidance and compassionate care of body, mind and spirit.

Human Services
5
Humane Society of Vero Beach and Indian River County Inc

None

Animals
6
Guide Dogs of Hawaii (Adaptive Aids Canines and Advocacy for the Blind)

Striving to enhance communications, promote equality and create opportunities for hawaii's blind and visually impaired.

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7
Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii

To improve the health and well-being of our community.

Human Services
8
Kauai Spca

To provide a safety net for Kauai's homeless pets that cannot be assisted through existing Island Rescue efforts.

Animals
9
Molokai Humane Society

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.

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10
Kuakini Foundation

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;…

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11
Hospice Maui Inc

To provide medical, nursing, counseling and other supportive services necessary for individuals with life-limiting illnesses and their families.

Human Services
12
Catsnip Hawaii
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaiian Humane Society; 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.
05the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LANAKILA PACIFIC FOUNDATION: $162,597 · Human ServicesLANAKILA PACIFIC FOUNDATIONPATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $121,167 · Human ServicesPATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGSHOSPICE HAWAII INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE HAWAII INCBIG - BROOKWOOD IN GEORGETOWN: $50,000 · OtherBIG - BROOKWOOD IN GEO…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $45,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recip…Individual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recip…MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $70,000 · AnimalsMAUI HUMANE SOCIETYASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAII: $30,000 · AnimalsASSISTANCE DOGS OF HA…KAUAI HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $25,000 · AnimalsKAUAI HUMANE SOCIETY …HAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $14,300 · AnimalsHAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIE…+1 more: $2,000 · AnimalsKapi'olani Health Foundation: $45,000 · HealthWHITE STAR FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA INC: $22,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER OF OAHU: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 · Public Benefit
Human Services$363,764Other$150,000Animals$141,300Health$45,000Philanthropy$32,000Public Benefit$8,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLANAKILA PACIFIC FOUNDATION: $162,597 over 3y, 14% of budgetPATRIOT PAWS SERVICE DOGS: $121,167 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetHOSPICE HAWAII INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $70,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetKapi'olani Health Foundation: $45,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAII: $30,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetKAUAI HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWHITE STAR FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA INC: $22,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetHAWAIIAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $14,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN'S JUSTICE CENTER OF OAHU: $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJourneys End Animal Sanctuary Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Atherton Family Found…Bank of Hawaii Charit…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Atherton Family FoundationHI15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Patterson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Patterson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 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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