· Private foundation
The Patton Charitable 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
- Under $10k52 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITARIAN CHURCH OF ALL SOULS | $27,500 |
| MISS PORTERS SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| CHRIST MEMORIAL CHAPEL | $11,000 |
| JUPITER ISLAND MEDICAL CENTER | $11,000 |
| CURE PSP | $10,000 |
| THE WILY NETWORK | $8,000 |
| HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST | $5,000 |
| JACOBS PILLOW | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $5,000 |
| WISDOM BRIDGES | $5,000 |
| THE CHILDRENS INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| AUXILIARY OF EMERSON HEALTH | $2,500 |
| GROTON SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| VASSAR COLLEGE | $1,500 |
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 (FY19–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
80 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 11 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
- MPMISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +94%
- HSHOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC9× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +57%
- TOTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY6× · 2019–2025 · $69k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- MGMassachusetts General Hospitalone grant, 2019 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $10k
- BLBanner Lake Club - BLASTone grant, 2017 · $5k
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Miss Porter's School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Arts Council of Rockland Inc. 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.
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 49 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
85 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 85 of the 148 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 MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CUREPSP INC ↗
- Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds GROTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NASHOBA BROOKS SCHOOL OF CONCORD INC ↗
- Who funds THE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GENERATIONS UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ROWING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MASTERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JUPITER ISLAND ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds JUPITER ISLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE WILY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FESSENDEN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TRUDEAU INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GUARDIANS OF MARTIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
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: The David and Elizabeth Long Foundation · St Clair Charitable Trust · Donald Grant & Ann Martin Calder Foundat · Legatus Foundation · Cox Foundation Inc · Nelson Mead Fund · CMB Foundation · Madigan Family Foundation · Ethel D Colket Foundation · Colket Family Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The James E & Constance L Bell 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 Patton Charitable 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Association for Autism and Neurodiversity Inc — 24% of income from government
- Heading Home Inc — 17% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
- Community Rowing Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Banner Lake Club Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Fessenden School — 0% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs Inc — 0% of income from government
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.