Tony Patiño Fellowship

Legal name: Friends of the Tony Patino Fellowship Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
133060669
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2022
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2022
Location
Chicago, IL, USA
Phone
5039134376
Rating confidence
Limited

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$0
Expenses
$11,927
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DOUGLAS WEINBERG (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • MARTHA BELCHER ESQ (Chrmn Emeritus)
  • STEPHAN P VAN LIERE ESQ (Chairman)
  • KENT SPRINKLE (Director)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Tony Patiño Fellowship honors the memory of Antenor Patiño, Jr. by awarding merit-based scholarships to law students at UC College of the Law San Francisco, University of Chicago Law School, and Columbia Law School, and fostering a professional community of exceptional law students and alumni who are leaders of character and capability.

What it reported doing in 2022

TO ENCOURAGE AND PROVIDE SUPPORT TO LAW SCHOOL STUDENTS WHO HAVE DEMONSTRATED A CONCERN FOR THE WORLD AROUND THEM. THE PROCESS INVOLVES INTERVIEWING AND SCREENING PROSPECTIVE CANDIDATES.The Tony Patio Fellowship is a merit scholarship awarded to law students who demonstrate leadership, a commitment to public service, and outstanding academic and personal achievement. The Fellowship is offered through three law schools: Columbia Law School; University of California Hastings College of the Law, and the University of Chicago Law School. The Fellowship is among the largest privately-offered merit awards for law students in the country, and has awarded more than $4 million in grants to more than 200 Fellows since its founding in 1974.There are over 200 Tony Patio Fellows working and contributing to their communities worldwide. Tony Patio Fellows are leaders people of character and capability. Fellows include an Assistant Secretary of State, a former United States Attorney, an international war crimes tribunal prosecutor, Assistant U.S. Attorneys, government lawyers, White House staffers, Congressional committee staffers, local government elected officials, labor attorneys, non-profit and NGO founders and directors, entrepreneurs, in-house attorneys, private practice attorneys, artists and authors.The Fellowships Board of Directors remains committed to Tonys wish and Francescas vision. Led by Francescas long-time confidante and protg, Chairwoman Emeritus Martha Belcher, and board chair Steve Van Liere, the board has expanded to include members representing all three beneficiary law schools. The goals the board is working to achieve include: strengthening the Fellowship network, providing more mentoring and career assistance to the Fellows-Elect, and raising the Fellowships profile in the legal community. Working together, the Fellowship community continues its efforts to achieve the aspiration engraved on the Fellowship statuette, to be a leader of mankind in all that is honorable, just and compassionate.

Operating model

Revenue model
No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 64
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 82
  • Sustainability: 8
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: 85.3%; rating input score 85
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: Limited
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -8% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 85.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2022
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.