Funding search · EIN 376714807 · Kansas City, MO

The Patterson Family Foundation

Name: The Patterson Family Foundation grants, 2022–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

632
grants reported: $140.6M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $100,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

rural care child school development economic opportunity healthcare

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

Community foundation capacity building across rural Kansas counties
Rural child care center startup and expansion, often school-district run
Rural EMS and ambulance district equipment and staffing
Technical colleges and healthcare workforce scholarships
Rural physician and educator pipeline programs at Kansas universities
Rural economic development: grocery access, main street, entrepreneurship

Typical grant

Median is $100,000 with the middle half between $40,000 and $175,000, and the program grants are strikingly standardized: $175,000 is the flat rate for a rural child care site and roughly $170,000 to $200,000 for a rural EMS agency. The seven-figure checks go to statewide intermediaries and university partners that redistribute or run multi-county programs, not to single sites. Repeat giving is explicit and structured, with awards labeled as installments ("1 OF 2", "5TH OF 5 ANNUAL INSTALLMENTS") and scholarship cohorts running four years.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

“RURAL CHILD CARE PROGRAM GRANT”
“RURAL EMS PROGRAM GRANT”
“THRIVING RURAL”
“COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PROGRAM GRANT”
“WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT”

Positioning adjacent work

Frame any health work as rural catchment and workforce pipeline, mirroring their KU and Kansas Health Science Center grants.
Ask $175,000 for a single rural site; reserve seven-figure asks for multi-county intermediary structures.
Partner with a Kansas community foundation, technical college, or USD district; those are their delivery channels.
Propose a multi-year installment schedule up front. They fund cohorts and annual installments, not one-off pilots.

Worth knowing: This is a Kansas foundation with a Kansas City address: 475 of 632 grants went to Kansas, most Missouri money went to Kansas City institutions or northwest Missouri ambulance districts, and only eight grants left the two states. The uniform dollar amounts and program labels signal recruited cohorts rather than open competition, so relationships with the statewide intermediaries they fund (Kansas Association of Community Foundations, NetWork Kansas, Ellis Foundation) matter more than a cold proposal.

49 grants matching “rural education” · $6.3M

$619,806
Kansas State University · Manhattan, KS · 2024
Rural educator capacity & training grant (rural education)
$175,000
Tree House Early Education Foundation · Independence, KS · 2024
Rural child care program grant
$70,000
The Richmond Education Foundation · Richmond, MO · 2024
Thriving rural grant funding
$44,993
Usd 374 Sublette Schools · Sublette, KS · 2024
Rural education program grant for preschool program, installment 2 of 3
$750,000
The Ellis Foundation · Fort Scott, KS · 2023
Rural education funding
$300,000
Usd 244 Burlington Public Schools · Burlington, KS · 2023
Rural education - child care
$250,000
The Ellis Foundation · Fort Scott, KS · 2023
Rural education funding
$248,000
The Ellis Foundation · Fort Scott, KS · 2023
Rural education funding
$239,000
The Ellis Foundation · Fort Scott, KS · 2023
Rural education funding
$234,000
The Ellis Foundation · Fort Scott, KS · 2023
Rural education funding
$150,000
Usd 315 Colby Public Schools · Colby, KS · 2023
Rural educator development grants
$150,000
Usd 257 Iola · Iola, KS · 2023
Rural educator development grants
$150,000
Usd 461 Neodesha · Neodesha, KS · 2023
Rural educator development grants
$150,000
Usd 434 Santa Fe Trail · Scranton, KS · 2023
Rural educator development grants
$150,000
Usd 432 Victoria Schools · Victoria, KS · 2023
Rural educator development grants
$150,000
Usd 405 Lyons · Lyons, KS · 2023
Rural educator development grants
$150,000
Usd 398 Peabody-Burns · Peabody, KS · 2023
Rural educator development grants
$150,000
Usd 376 Sterling Public Schools · Sterling, KS · 2023
Rural educator development grants
$150,000
Usd 366 Woodson · Yates Center, KS · 2023
Rural educator development grants
$148,000
Ballard R-Ii School District · Butler, MO · 2023
Rural educator development grants
$142,000
Clinton County R-Iii School District · Plattsburg, MO · 2023
Rural educator development grants
$132,825
Usd 333 Concordia Public Schools · Concordia, KS · 2023
Rural educator development grants
$129,332
Usd 247 Southeast · Cherokee, KS · 2023
Rural educator development grants
$110,000
Usd 200 Greeley County Schools · Tribune, KS · 2023
Rural educator development grants
$100,000
Usd 282 West Elk Schools · Howard, KS · 2023
Rural educator development grants
$100,000
Usd 476 Copeland · Copeland, KS · 2023
Rural educator development grants
$100,000
Usd 286 Chautauqua County Community Schools · Sedan, KS · 2023
Rural educator development grants
$75,000
Usd 112 Central Plains · Claflin, KS · 2023
Rural educator development grants
$61,800
Rural Education and Workforce Alliance (Rewa) · Dodge City, KS · 2023
Program grants
$57,730
Usd 481 Rural Vista · White City, KS · 2023
Rural educator development grants
$50,000
Usd 347 Kinsley-Offerle · Kinsley, KS · 2023
Rural educator development grants
$50,000
Usd 511 Attica Public Schools · Attica, KS · 2023
Rural educator development grants
$50,000
Usd 255 South Barber · Kiowa, KS · 2023
Rural educator development grants
$50,000
Usd 234 Fort Scott · Fort Scott, KS · 2023
Rural educator development grants
$50,000
Usd 374 Sublette Schools · Sublette, KS · 2023
Rural education grant - preschool program
$50,000
Usd 103 Cheylin · Bird City, KS · 2023
Rural educator development grants
$50,000
Imaginarium · Emporia, KS · 2023
Rural education program
$50,000
Fairfax R-Iii School District · Fairfax, MO · 2023
Rural educator development grants
$50,000
Usd 507 Satanta · Satanta, KS · 2023
Rural educator development grants
$45,000
Pattonsburg R-Ii · Pattonsburg, MO · 2023
Rural educator development grants
$40,000
Usd 429 Troy Public Schools · Troy, KS · 2023
Rural educator development grants
$40,000
Usd 358 - Oxford · Oxford, KS · 2023
Rural education operational funding
$40,000
Usd 285 Cedar Vale Schools · Cedar Vale, KS · 2023
Rural educator development grants
$40,000
Usd 241 - Wallace County · Sharon Springs, KS · 2023
Rural educator development grants
$32,000
Usd 102 Cimarron-Ensign · Cimarron, KS · 2023
Rural educator development grants
$26,000
Usd 303 Ness City · Ness City, KS · 2023
Rural educator development grants
$15,000
North Mercer R-Iii School District · Mercer, MO · 2023
Rural educator development grants
$15,000
Usd 452 Stanton County · Johnson City, KS · 2023
Rural educator development grants
$150,000
Rural Schools Collaborative · Galesburg, IL · 2022
Education / program grant

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Kansas Association of Community Foundations9 grants · $28.0M
American Royal Association7 grants · $6.2M
The Ellis Foundation13 grants · $4.4M
Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences4 grants · $4.0M
Kansas Department of Commerce3 grants · $3.2M
University of Kansas School of Medicine6 grants · $2.9M
Kansas City University4 grants · $2.9M
Kansas Children'S Cabinet and Trust Fund1 grant · $2.5M
Kansas Association of Child Care Resources1 grant · $2.5M
Eisenhower Foundation2 grants · $2.1M

Giving over time

$31.9M

2022

$51.3M

2023

$57.4M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 632 grants.

$9.0M
Kansas Association of Community Foundations · Washington, KS · 2024
Community foundation program grant
$7.2M
Kansas Association of Community Foundations · Washington, KS · 2023
Rural economic opportunity grants
$6.9M
Kansas Association of Community Foundations · Washington, KS · 2022
Economic opportunity / program grant
$2.5M
Kansas Association of Child Care Resources · Salina, KS · 2024
Child care home based providers program
$2.5M
American Royal Association · Kansas City, MO · 2023
Building campaign
$2.5M
Kansas Children'S Cabinet and Trust Fund · Topeka, KS · 2023
Rural childcare funding
$2.5M
American Royal Association · Kansas City, MO · 2022
Building campaign - 2022
$2.3M
Kansas Department of Commerce · Topeka, KS · 2022
Economic opportunity / program grant
$2.3M
Kansas Association of Community Foundations · Washington, KS · 2024
Community foundation program grant
$2.2M
Kansas Association of Community Foundations · Washington, KS · 2023
Rural economic opportunity grants
$2.0M
Eisenhower Foundation · Abilene, KS · 2024
I like ike education center campaign
$2.0M
Ks Association of Childcare Resources · Salina, KS · 2022
Economic opportunity / program grant
$1.8M
Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences · Kansas City, MO · 2024
Thriving rural program grant - 5th of 5 annual installments
$1.8M
Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences · Kansas City, MO · 2023
Healthcare/capital grant
$1.8M
Kansas City University · Kansas City, MO · 2022
Health care / capital grant
$1.6M
Oklahoma State University Foundation · Stillwater, OK · 2023
Legacy health care program grant
$1.5M
Kvc Hospitals · Kansas City, KS · 2022
Health care / capital grant
$1.5M
Missouri Emergency Medical Services Association · Linn, MO · 2024
Rural community paramedicine program
$1.2M
New Hope Shelter · Newton, KS · 2022
Economic opportunity / capital grant
$1.2M
Kearny County Hospital · Kansas City, MO · 2022
Health care / capital grant
$1.1M
First Hand Foundation · Kansas City, MO · 2024
Legacy operational grant
$1.0M
Avila University · Kansas City, MO · 2024
Patterson legacy scholarship (jlp) scholarship - installment 1 of 2
$1.0M
Greater Northwest Ks Community Foundation · Bird City, KS · 2024
Rural childcare grant
$1.0M
Kansas Leadership Center · Wichita, KS · 2024
Community foundation leadership program, installment 1 of 2
$1.0M
Network Kansas · Wichita, KS · 2024
Home community grant
$1.0M
Washburn University · Topeka, KS · 2024
Workforce development grant
$885,354
Phillips Fundamental Learning Center · Wichita, KS · 2024
Ed/prg program grant
$850,000
Rural Grocery Initiative · Manhattan, KS · 2024
Rural grocery initiative
$832,000
Wichita State University Foundation · Wichita, KS · 2024
Healthcare workforce scholarship program
$780,000
Dane G Hansen Foundation · Logan, KS · 2024
Community foundation capacity building program
$770,000
Wichita State University Tech Foundation · Wichita, KS · 2024
Tech colleges
$750,000
Center for Advanced Professional Studies · Overland Park, KS · 2024
Ed/prg program grant
$750,000
North Central Kansas Technical College Foundation · Beloit, KS · 2024
Tech colleges
$750,000
The Ellis Foundation · Fort Scott, KS · 2023
Rural education funding
$698,000
The Ellis Foundation · Fort Scott, KS · 2022
Patterson legacy / scholarship
$650,370
University of Kansas School of Medicine · Kansas City, KS · 2022
Healthcare / program grant
$630,000
Sck Health Foundation · Arkansas City, KS · 2023
Healthcare equipment grants
$629,246
University of Kansas School of Medicine · Kansas City, KS · 2023
Rural health operations grant
$629,245
University of Kansas School of Medicine · Kansas City, KS · 2024
Rural health operations grant, hospital safety program
$619,806
Kansas State University · Manhattan, KS · 2024
Rural educator capacity & training grant (rural education)
$619,806
Kansas State University · Manhattan, KS · 2023
Education/program grant
$619,806
Kansas State University · Manhattan, KS · 2022
Education / program grant
$600,000
Stemm Fire Foundation · Shawnee, KS · 2023
Education/operational grant
$590,102
Victoria Community Coalition · Victoria, KS · 2023
Education, health care and economic opportunity
$575,620
Kansas Health Science Center · Wichita, KS · 2024
Thriving rural program grant - final installment
$552,350
Network Kansas · Wichita, KS · 2022
Economic opportunity / program grant
$546,080
Kansas Sampler Foundation · Inman, KS · 2022
Economic opportunity / operational grant
$525,000
Kansas Department of Commerce · Topeka, KS · 2022
Economic opportunity / program grant
$500,000
Cloud County Community College Foundation · Concordia, KS · 2022
Education / capital grant
$500,000
Grow Hays · Hays, KS · 2022
Economic opportunity / capital grant
$500,000
Kansas City University · Kansas City, MO · 2022
Health care / program grant
$496,000
The Ellis Foundation · Fort Scott, KS · 2022
126 existing, 125 new students
$484,617
Missouri 4-H Foundation · Columbia, MO · 2023
Education, health care and economic opportunity
$461,028
Cerner Charitable Foundation · Kansas City, MO · 2022
St. Sabina
$460,000
Kansas Department of Commerce · Topeka, KS · 2023
Education, health care and economic opportunity
$425,000
United We · Kansas City, MO · 2023
Economic opportunity / research grant
$405,712
Flint Hills Technical College Foundation · Emporia, KS · 2024
Tech colleges
$394,000
Great Bend Alive · Great Bend, KS · 2024
Thriving rural responsive grant
$387,500
United School Administrators Leader Found · Topeka, KS · 2024
Ed/prg program grant
$384,719
North Kansas City Hospital · North Kansas City, MO · 2023
Health care/program grant
$384,719
North Kansas City Hospital · North Kansas City, MO · 2022
Healthcare / program grant
$360,000
Health Care Coalition of Lafayette County · Lexington, MO · 2023
Education, health care and economic opportunity
$354,500
American Royal Association · Kansas City, MO · 2024
2024 junior premium livestock auction
$352,000
American Royal Association · Kansas City, MO · 2023
Patterson legacy
$342,476
American Royal Association · Kansas City, MO · 2022
2022 junior premium livestock auction
$334,288
Manhattan Area Technical College · Manhattan, KS · 2024
Tech colleges
$333,334
University of Kansas School of Medicine · Kansas City, KS · 2024
Expansion of behavioral health program to focus on rural catchment
$333,333
University of Kansas School of Medicine · Kansas City, KS · 2023
Healthcare/program grant
$333,333
University of Kansas School of Medicine · Kansas City, KS · 2022
Healthcare / capital grant
$325,000
Live Well Atchison County · Atchison, KS · 2022
Health care / program grant
$322,036
Victory Life Church · Pittsburg, KS · 2023
Rural economic opportunity grants
$320,700
Pratt Health Foundation · Pratt, KS · 2023
Rural economic opportunity grants
$317,143
Community Health Center of Southeast Ks · Pittsburg, KS · 2022
Health care / operational grant
$311,100
Catholic Charities of Northern Kansas · Salina, KS · 2023
Education, health care and economic opportunity
$309,694
Integrated Behavioral Technologies · Basehor, KS · 2023
Education, health care and economic opportunity
$306,375
Sunflower Rail-Trails Conservancy · Lawrence, KS · 2022
Economic opportunity / capital grant
$300,000
Northwest Kansas Area Vocational Technical School Enowment Association · Goodland, KS · 2024
Tech colleges
$300,000
Salina Area Technical College Education Fund · Salina, KS · 2024
Tech colleges
$300,000
Andbe Home · Norton, KS · 2023
Rural health care capital grant
$300,000
Usd 244 Burlington Public Schools · Burlington, KS · 2023
Rural education - child care
$300,000
Central Kansas Community Foundation · Newton, KS · 2022
Newton public library - education / capital grant
$300,000
Kansas City University · Kansas City, MO · 2022
Education / scholarship
$300,000
Pivotal Health & Wellness · Overland Park, KS · 2022
Healthcare / capital grant
$293,000
Greater Northwest Kansas Community Foundation · Bird City, KS · 2023
Community foundation back office support grant
$285,000
Coffeyville Area Childcare Coalition · Coffeyville, KS · 2023
Rural economic opportunity grants
$280,070
Healthy Bourbon County Action Team · Fort Scott, KS · 2022
Economic opportunity / program grant
$277,749
West Central Community Action Agency · Appleton City, MO · 2022
Economic opportunity / program grant
$270,000
Kansas City University · Kansas City, MO · 2022
Scholarship pledge - 2nd installment
$255,350
Kansas 4-H Foundation · Manhattan, KS · 2023
Economic opportunity/capital grant
$255,350
Kansas 4-H Foundation · Manhattan, KS · 2022
Economic opportunity / capital grant
$250,000
The Ellis Foundation · Fort Scott, KS · 2024
Rural scholarship, cohort 2, installment 4 of 4
$250,000
The Ellis Foundation · Fort Scott, KS · 2024
Rural scholarships, cohort 5, installment 1 of 4
$250,000
The Ellis Foundation · Fort Scott, KS · 2024
Rural scholarship, cohort 3, installment 3 of 4
$250,000
The Ellis Foundation · Fort Scott, KS · 2024
Rural votech scholarships, installment 1 of 2
$250,000
The Ellis Foundation · Fort Scott, KS · 2024
Rural scholarships, cohort 4, installment 2 of 4
$250,000
Colby Community College Endowment Foundation · Colby, KS · 2023
Education, health care and economic opportunity
$250,000
Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences · Kansas City, MO · 2023
Health care / program grant
$250,000
Labette Health Foundation · Parsons, KS · 2023
Healthcare equipment grants
$250,000
Legacy Regional Community Foundation · Winfield, KS · 2023
Rural economic opportunity grants
$250,000
McPherson County Community Foundation · McPherson, KS · 2023
Rural economic opportunity grants

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.