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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.

$4.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
62
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$6.5MEducation$3.2MCivil Rights$1.6MHealth$1.2MHuman Services$908kInternational$356kHousing & Shelter$258kPhilanthropy$230kOther$0
02FY2024 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k29 grants · $590k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+6 grants · $3.0M
$25,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AUGUSTINE INSTITUTE INC$1,000,000
LIFE COLLECTIVE INC$1,000,000
LIVE ACTION$250,000
SIDEWALK ADVOCATES FOR LIFE$250,000
STUDENTS FOR LIFE OF AMERICA$250,000
40 DAYS FOR LIFE$250,000
HOLY CHILDHOOD OF JESUS HARBOR SPRINGS$150,000
HOLY CROSS COLLEGE INC$100,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
ST EDWARD HIGH SCHOOL$100,000
NAPA INSTITUTE$100,000
CATHOLIC VOTE EDUCATION FUND$100,000
THE LEGION OF CHRIST INC$100,000
SAINT THOMAS EDUCATION FUND$77,000
FRIENDS OF THE BRIDEGROOM INC$75,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $3k → 14%BKBNK INC: $1k → 20%VETSTARTS INC: $30k → 11%CHILDREN WAITING EVERYWHERE: $40k → 10%THE EQUAL RIGHTS INSTITUTE: $3k → 8%THE HUCKLEBERRY HOUSE: $3k → 15%CHILDREN WAITING EVERYWHERE: $9k → 10%EQUAL RIGHTS INSTITUTE: $1k → 8%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $3k → 14%OZONE HOUSE: $5k → 14%HIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW: $40k → 14%CHILDREN WAITING EVERYWHERE INC: $35k → 14%CHILDREN WAITING EVERYWHERE: $25k → 14%CHILDREN WAITING EVERYWHERE: $20k → 14%CHILDREN WAITING EVERYWHERE: $15k → 14%CHILDREN WAITING EVERYWHERE INC: $10k → 14%HIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW: $4k → 14%BARNABAS FUND: $8k → 14%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN: $5k → 14%HOSPICE OF MICHIGAN: $4k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 80 repeat orgs$4.1M to everyone else

80 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

80
115

Total granted

$11M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+32%

Still filing today

51%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionEducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AM
    AVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +573%
  • Augustine Institute Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +148%
  • LA
    LIVE ACTION
    3× · 2019–2024 · $505k · revenue +207%

Funded once

  • MM
    MOTHER MARY OF THE EUCHARIST
    one grant, 2020 · $300k
  • PP
    PRO-LIFE PARTNERS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -86% · 26% of their budget
  • TC
    THE CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF LANSING
    one grant, 2020 · $200k
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.

04Its field

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.

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Mercy Health

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…

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2
Catholic Answers Inc

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…

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3
Christianity Today International

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.

Religion
4
Loyola University

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…

Education
5
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of St Cloud

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…

Human Services
6
Evangel University

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.

Education
7
Living His Life Abundantly International

To inform, instruct and inspire people through the media about the sacred scriptures and teachings of the roman catholic church

Religion
8
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Omaha Inc

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.

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9
Benedictine University

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…

Education
10
Saint Xavier University

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…

Education
11
Madonna University

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…

Education
12
Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fidelis Center for Law & Policy; 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.
04the grantee network

122 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 122 of the 218 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
117/122
Grantees still filing
87/122
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LIFE COLLECTIVE INC: $1,000,000 · OtherLIFE COLLECTIVE INCST EDWARD HIGH SCHOOL: $738,000 · OtherST EDWARD HIGH SCHOOLHOLY CROSS SERVICES INC: $586,400 · OtherHOLY CROSS SERVICES INCHALFTIME INSTITUTE: $465,000 · OtherYoung America's Foundation: $360,000 · OtherST LOUIS CENTER: $320,500 · OtherST FRANCIS OF ASSISI: $320,000 · Other+130 more: $5,629,557 · Other+130 moreAVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC: $1,247,500 · EducationAVE MARIA UNIVERSITY I…Augustine Institute Inc: $1,058,750 · EducationAugustine Institute In…40 DAYS FOR LIFE: $250,000 · Education40 DAYS FOR LIFE+12 more: $447,196 · Education+12 moreLIVE ACTION: $505,000 · Civil RightsStudents for Life of America Inc: $275,000 · Civil RightsFIDELIS CENTER FOR LAW & POLICY: $200,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $3,000 · Civil RightsTHE NAPA INSTITUTE: $200,000 · ReligionACTS XXIX - Mobilizing for Mission: $105,000 · ReligionSacred Story Institute: $100,000 · ReligionRENEWAL MINISTRIES INC: $93,000 · ReligionFRIENDS OF THE BRIDEGROOM INC: $75,000 · ReligionBack 2 Back Ministries Inc: $66,200 · ReligionAve Maria Communications: $50,000 · ReligionRed-C Apostolate: $40,000 · ReligionTHE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE: $40,000 · ReligionAvila Foundation Inc: $35,000 · Religion+8 more: $61,500 · ReligionSidewalk Advocates for Life: $265,000 · HealthEMMAUS HEALTH PARTNERS: $132,000 · HealthST JOHN PAUL II LIFE CENTER: $25,000 · Health+7 more: $60,160 · HealthChildren Waiting Everywhere Inc: $154,000 · Human ServicesHIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW: $44,000 · Human ServicesVETSTARTS INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesHospice of Michigan Inc: $9,000 · Human Services+6 more: $24,500 · Human ServicesThe New Horizons Foundation Inc: $100,000 · PhilanthropyKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyNMDP FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$9,419,457Education$3,003,446Civil Rights$983,000Religion$865,700Health$482,160Human Services$261,500Philanthropy$220,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC: $1,247,500 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetAugustine Institute Inc: $1,058,750 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetHOLY CROSS SERVICES INC: $586,400 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetLIVE ACTION: $505,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetHALFTIME INSTITUTE: $465,000 over 7y, 5.9% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $360,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetST LOUIS CENTER: $320,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetStudents for Life of America Inc: $275,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetSidewalk Advocates for Life: $265,000 over 4y, 15% of budget40 DAYS FOR LIFE: $250,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetPRO-LIFE PARTNERS FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetTHE NAPA INSTITUTE: $200,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetFIDELIS CENTER FOR LAW & POLICY: $200,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetChildren Waiting Everywhere Inc: $154,000 over 7y, 31% of budgetEMMAUS HEALTH PARTNERS: $132,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetELE'S PLACE INC: $120,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetACTS XXIX - Mobilizing for Mission: $105,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetHOPE MEDICAL CLINIC INC: $100,999 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFISHER HOUSE MICHIGAN: $100,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetThe New Horizons Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOLY CROSS COLLEGE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSacred Story Institute: $100,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetNATIONAL EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBRIDGE2RWANDA INC: $100,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetRENEWAL MINISTRIES INC: $93,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE BRIDEGROOM INC: $75,000 over 1y, 56% of budgetConductive Learning Center of North America: $73,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetBack 2 Back Ministries Inc: $66,200 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSpring Arbor University: $54,696 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWheaton College: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARBORVITAE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetHIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW: $44,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetTWIN-CITY AREA CATHOLIC SCHOOL FUND: $42,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetMACKINAC CENTER: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRed-C Apostolate: $40,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetAVALON NONPROFIT HOUSING CORPORATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEMMANUEL HOUSE: $35,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetAvila Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetHARBOR SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $33,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetPONTIFICAL UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY CROSS FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetVETSTARTS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SAMARITAN: $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetST JOHN PAUL II LIFE CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAVE MARIA SCHOOL OF LAW: $23,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWASHTENAW AREA COUNCIL FOR CHILDREN: $21,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budget
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 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 40 DAYS FOR LIFE ↗
  • Who funds PRO-LIFE PARTNERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 FISHER HOUSE MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds The New Horizons Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOLY CROSS COLLEGE INC ↗
  • Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FUND 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.

Ann Arbor Area Commun…Catholic Foundation o…United Way of Washten…Harry a and Margaret …Community Foundation …DTE Energy FoundationKnights of Columbus C…Edward F Redies Found…Trinity Health - Mich…Thrift Shop Associati…Duffy FoundationOur Sunday Visitor Inc
Ann Arbor Area Community FoundationMI32.2× affinity14 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Timothy and Sheila Patton Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Timothy and Sheila Patton Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Ave Maria University Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Timothy and Sheila Patton Family Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 218 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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