· Private foundation
The Robert C & Cornealia H Patton 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 73% of The Robert C & Cornealia H Patton Family Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $92k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $390k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Atlas Ministries | $205,000 |
| Lakeside Church | $75,000 |
| City of Refuge | $60,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| AFCCAdopt & Foster Care Connection | $30,000 |
| Truth Springs | $26,300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Search Ministries | $10,200 |
| CrossPointe Church | $6,875 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,550 |
| Northgate Presby Church | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Mercy Health Center | $5,000 |
| Ark International Ministry | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
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 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 4 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k 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
- COCITY OF REFUGE9× · 2017–2025 · $426k · revenue +55%
- TSTRUTH SPRING INC3× · 2022–2025 · $46k · revenue +21%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2019 · $20k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- PCPERIMETER CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $10k
- FFCAone grant, 2023 · $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.
To provide christian based outreach to clients by providing services and information free of charge to anyone in a crisis pregnancy situation, with the goal of assisting the client to carry the pregnancy to term and with continued care…
To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.
We, saint joseph's health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. honoring the heritage and advancing the ministry of the sisters of…
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
We, saint joseph's health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. honoring the heritage and advancing the ministry of the sisters of…
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve.
We, trinity health pace and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mercy life is a member of trinity health pace and trinity health.
To protect the unborn, share the gospel, and transform our communities one life at a time.
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
We, mercy medical and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. in the tradition of the sisters of mercy, we are committed to continuing the…
Walk alongside single moms and their kids so they can face their future with confidence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shepherd Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Shaq Mason Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 43 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 CITY OF REFUGE ↗
- Who funds TRUTH SPRING INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds ERNST & YOUNG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COVENANT ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE GATHERING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds MERCYMED OF COLUMBUS INC ATTN TONY NGUYEN ↗
- Who funds LIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIONHEART LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE OVARIAN CANCER INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHAQ MASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEWART'S CARING PLACE INC AND SUBSIDIARY ↗
- Who funds Lighthouse Family Retreat 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: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Lockwood Partners Foundation Inc · Athens Area Community Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Robert C & Cornealia H Patton 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.