· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- SSSchwob School of Musicone grant, 2024 · $3k
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 39 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds COLUMBUS PHILHARMONIC GUILD INC ↗
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- Who funds LOVE WORTH FINDING MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE CHATTAHOOCHEE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds KAPPA SIGMA ENDOWMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERCENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKSTONE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MIDTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC COLUMBUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Patton Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Patton Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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