· Private foundation
Timothy and Sheila Patton Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $590k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+6 grants · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AUGUSTINE INSTITUTE INC | $1,000,000 |
| LIFE COLLECTIVE INC | $1,000,000 |
| STUDENTS FOR LIFE OF AMERICA | $250,000 |
| SIDEWALK ADVOCATES FOR LIFE | $250,000 |
| 40 DAYS FOR LIFE | $250,000 |
| LIVE ACTION | $250,000 |
| HOLY CHILDHOOD OF JESUS HARBOR SPRINGS | $150,000 |
| HOLY CROSS COLLEGE INC | $100,000 |
| CATHOLIC VOTE EDUCATION FUND | $100,000 |
| THE LEGION OF CHRIST INC | $100,000 |
| ST EDWARD HIGH SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| NAPA INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| SAINT THOMAS EDUCATION FUND | $77,000 |
| NEW HORIZONS FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $263k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% 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 +31% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
81 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M 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
- AMAVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +573%
Augustine Institute Inc4× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +148%- HCHOLY CROSS SERVICES INC5× · 2017–2022 · $586k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- MMMOTHER MARY OF THE EUCHARISTone grant, 2020 · $300k
- PPPRO-LIFE PARTNERS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -86% · 26% of their budget
- TCTHE CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF LANSINGone grant, 2020 · $200k
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.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
At Catholic Charities, we focus our efforts around three core pillars: Food Access, Mental Health and Housing. Guided by our mission - to serve and enhance human dignity for all people - we provide essential services and foster a sense of…
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
To inform, instruct and inspire people through the media about the sacred scriptures and teachings of the roman catholic church
In response to god's call to love our neighbor, catholic charities of the archdiocese of omaha enables the works of mercy to be received and lived.
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
The mission of madonna university, a catholic and franciscan institution of higher learning, is to instill in its students christain humanistic values, intellectual inquiry, a respect for university and a committment to serving others…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fidelis Center for Law & Policy and the most unlike its peers is The Stiff Person Syndrome Research. 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 34 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
122 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. 122 of the 219 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 AVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Augustine Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds HOLY CROSS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LIVE ACTION ↗
- Who funds HALFTIME INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Students for Life of America Inc ↗
- Who funds Sidewalk Advocates for Life ↗
- Who funds PRO-LIFE PARTNERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 40 DAYS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds THE NAPA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FIDELIS CENTER FOR LAW & POLICY ↗
- Who funds Children Waiting Everywhere Inc ↗
- Who funds EMMAUS HEALTH PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds ELE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds ACTS XXIX - Mobilizing for Mission ↗
- Who funds HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS INC ↗
- Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Sacred Story Institute ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE2RWANDA 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: Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · Catholic Foundation of Michigan · United Way of Washtenaw County · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Dte Energy Foundation · Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · Edward F Redies Foundation Inc · Trinity Health - Michigan · Thrift Shop Association of Ann Arbor · Duffy Foundation · Our Sunday Visitor 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 Timothy and Sheila Patton Family Charitable Trust 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.
- Ave Maria University 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.
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