· Private foundation
The Patton Foundation Inc
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $42k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Paul Church of Columbus | $31,900 |
| Columbus Symphony Orchestra | $10,000 |
| Tulane University Fund | $5,000 |
| Mercer University Foundation | $5,000 |
| Columbus State University Foundation | $5,000 |
| National Infantry Musuem Foundation | $2,500 |
| Love Worth Finding Ministries | $2,000 |
| Pathway to Victory | $2,000 |
| Hillsdale College Foundation | $2,000 |
| Columbus Museum | $2,000 |
| Youth Orchestra Columbus Georgia | $1,500 |
| RiverCenter | $1,000 |
| Brookstone Annual Fund | $1,000 |
| Open Door Community House | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% 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.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 16 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- SPSt Paul United Methodist Church5× · 2020–2024 · $100k
- SPST PAUL CHURCH OF COLUMBUS INC2× · 2024–2025 · $46k
- CPCOLUMBUS PHILHARMONIC GUILD INC4× · 2022–2025 · $25k · revenue -7%
Funded once
- MHMethodist Home of South Georgiaone grant, 2024 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $3k
- TUTulane University School of Medicineone grant, 2023 · $3k
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.
To inspire, gather, and activate followers of jesus to pursue the common good in our city.
Columbus Christian Academy strives to provide a Christ-centered education of excellence to enable students to soar in truth and wisdom and to become men and women of true faith, to stand strong for Christ and impact their world for…
Entrusted with the responsibility to improve the community's quality of life, the columbus foundation embraces the following: to assist donors and others in strengthening and improving the community for the benefit of all its residents.
The columbus academy aspires to be an inclusive community where all differences consistent with the mission of the school are valued, respected, and integrated into the education process.
To nurture a community where people can prosper in the business of music while contributing to columbus' overall cultural and economic growth.
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
Cma is dedicated to creating its mission of providing "great experiences with great art for everyone".
To create a cornerstone of dignity, security and opportunity through quality affordable homes and strong communities.
Christian institution of higher learning dedicated to the exploration, discernment, sustentation, and dissemination of god's truth. midwest is committed to excellence in education encouraging students to comprehensively consider god's word…
Central christian college of kansas is a four-year, non-profit liberal arts college with the primary mission of offering a christ-centered education for character.
Receive and provide contributions for charitable and educational activities
Stabilize neighborhoods through establishing financing, education, rehabilitation of existing housing and development of new housing
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Columbus Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 39 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 COLUMBUS PHILHARMONIC GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds Columbus State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LOVE WORTH FINDING MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds KAPPA SIGMA ENDOWMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERCENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds BROOKSTONE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MIDTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION 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: Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · Lockwood Partners Foundation Inc · Jackson-Burgin Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Inc · Bradley-Turner Foundation Inc · The Cliboca Foundation Inc · Gb & Ca Saunders Foundation Inc · Jw & Ethel I Woodruff Foundation Inc · The Jordan Foundation Inc · The Daniel P Amos Family Foundation · Thornton Jordan Family Foundation Inc
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 Foundation Inc 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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