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Eugene R Matthews Memorial Fund

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.

$25k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
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100% of Eugene R Matthews Memorial Fund’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Gaston Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

0
’21
0
’22
0
’23
0
’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2025
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Philanthropy$313k

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2025.

Gaston Community Foundation$25,000

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About Eugene R Matthews Memorial Fund

How much does Eugene R Matthews Memorial Fund give?
Eugene R Matthews Memorial Fund reported 1 grants totaling $25,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does Eugene R Matthews Memorial Fund fund?
By grant dollars, its largest causes are Philanthropy (100%).
Does Eugene R Matthews Memorial Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is Eugene R Matthews Memorial Fund based?
Eugene R Matthews Memorial Fund is based in NC.

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 1 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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