· Private foundation
Ed and Jean Mathews 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $346k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY | $60,428 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA | $40,773 |
| WESTBURY | $40,000 |
| NEWMAN UNIVERSITY | $30,806 |
| CANINE COMPANIONS | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $27,218 |
| MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY | $24,740 |
| FRIENDS UNIVERSITY | $22,062 |
| OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY | $20,057 |
| HOSPITALITY HOUSE | $20,000 |
| BAXTER FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| BREWSTER ROAD COMMUNITY CHURCH | $20,000 |
| ST MATTHEW'S SCHOOL | $15,150 |
| MISSION K9 | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $151k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
35 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 5 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FUFriends University7× · 2019–2025 · $210k · revenue +29%
- TSTHE SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE5× · 2019–2023 · $183k · revenue +8%
- TUThe University of Tampa Incorporated2× · 2024–2025 · $60k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- OOCUone grant, 2020 · $100k
- PPEPPERDINEone grant, 2020 · $50k
- BFBARTER FOUNDATIONSone grant, 2023 · $20k
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.
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.
Excelsior University provides educational opportunity to adult learners with an emphasis on those historically underrepresented in higher education. The University meets students where they are - academically and geographically, offering…
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
Houghton university provides an academically challenging, christ-centered education in the liberal arts and sciences to students from diverse traditions and economic backgrounds and equips them to lead and labor as scholar-servants in a…
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
As an institution of higher education committed to the reformed christian perspective, dordt university equips students, alumni, and the broader community to work effectively toward christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
The mission of hope international university is to empower students through christian higher education to serve the church and impact the world for christ. the university specializes in fields offering significant influence on society…
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…
Spring arbor university is a community of learners distinguished by our lifelong involvement in the study and application of the liberal arts, total commitment to jesus christ as the perspective for learning and critical participation in…
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 52 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Friends University ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds Harding University Inc ↗
- Who funds The University of Tampa Incorporated ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SpringSpirit Inc ↗
- Who funds BAXTER INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VOA MILLEN HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Mid-America Christian University Inc ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Christian University ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Tulsa Community Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ed and Jean Mathews Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ed and Jean Mathews Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The University of Tampa Incorporated: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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