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George a & Ann M Mathewson Trust Foundation at a glance

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George a & Ann M Mathewson Trust Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$15kHealth$13kArts & Culture$9kReligion$6kPhilanthropy$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kHuman Services$1kYouth Development$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
2
States reached
$143k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Colgate University$2,700
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Glens Falls Hospital Foundation$500
University of Michigan$500
The Friends & Family of Princeton Public Library$300
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Albany Damien Center: $1k → 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.
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$46k · 15 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
19

Total granted

$46k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
-6%

Still filing today

60%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CU
    COLGATE UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $10k · revenue +19%
  • GF
    GLENS FALLS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +167%
  • TU
    TRI-COUNTY UNITED WAY INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $4k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • CP
    Caldwell Presbyterian Church
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • TA
    THE ALBANY DAMIEN CENTER INC
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -34%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
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.

1
Su Theatre Corporation D/B/a Syracuse Stage

Syracuse stage tells stories that engage, entertain, and inspire us to see life beyond our own experiences.

Arts & Culture
2
Ensemble for the Romantic Century

Theatrical performances combining chamber music with stories of historical figures from 19th and 20th centuries for public appreciation of the arts.

Arts & Culture
3
Wmht Educational Telecommunications Inc

Wmht enriches communities and elevates diverse perspectives by providing content, connection, and conversation that advance education, culture, and civic engagement.

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4
The Troy Savings Bank Music Hall Fo
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5
Seneca Falls Performing Arts Center
Arts & Culture
6
New York Public Radio

To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.

Arts & Culture
7
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
8
Lake George Opera Festival Association Inc

Opera saratoga's innovative world class performances and programs inspire, educate, and heal audiences and artists through the power of the human voice.

Arts & Culture
9
Binghamton Philharmonic Inc

The mission of the Binghamton Philharmonic is building community through the power of live music.

Arts & Culture
10
Saratoga Arts Inc

Saratoga arts was established to enrich the region by cultivating a vibrant arts community and by ensuring that the arts are accessible to all.

Arts & Culture
11
Ithaca College

Our mission is to educate, engage, and empower through theory, practice, and performance.

Education
12
State Theatre of Ithaca Inc

State theatre of ithaca, inc. was organized to present top-quality entertainment in a variety of formats to enhance the lives of residents of the ithaca community and the surrounding finger lakes region.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saratoga Performing Arts Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Steuben County Historical Society. 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

19 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. 19 of the 34 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
10/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $6,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNORTH COUNTRY MINISTRY: $3,850 · OtherNORTH COUNTRY MINISTRYTRI-COUNTY UNITED WAY INC: $3,700 · OtherTRI-COUNTY UNITED WAY INCCaldwell Presbyterian Church: $2,200 · OtherCaldwell Presbyterian ChurchParalyzed Veterans of America: $2,050 · OtherParalyzed Veterans of AmericaLake George Volunteer Fire Department: $1,800 · OtherLake George Volunteer Fire DepartmentThe Friends & Family of Princeton Public Library: $1,300 · OtherHudson Headwater Health Network: $1,150 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherSTEUBEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,000 · OtherUniversity of Michigan: $1,000 · Other+7 more: $3,200 · Other+7 moreCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $10,200 · EducationCOLGATE UNIVERSITYPRINCETON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · EducationPRINCETON EDUCATION FOUN…KEUKA COLLEGE: $1,000 · EducationKEUKA COLLEGEQUEENSBURY COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIP ASSOCIATION INC: $600 · EducationGLENS FALLS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $7,650 · HealthGLENS FALLS HOSP…WEST GLENS FALLS EMERGENCY SQUAD INC: $900 · HealthWEST GLENS FALLS…PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $400 · HealthSARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $3,400 · Arts & CultureSARATOGA PERFOR…HOME MADE THEATER INC: $1,200 · Arts & CultureHOME MADE THEAT…MCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY: $1,000 · Arts & CultureMCCARTER THEATR…LAKE GEORGE MUSIC FESTIVAL: $750 · Arts & CultureLAKE GEORGE MUS…THE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION: $600 · Arts & CultureTHE FORT TICOND…THE NEW YORK STATE MILITARY: $500 · Arts & CultureTHE NEW YORK ST…CHARLES R WOOD THEATER INC: $500 · Arts & CultureCHARLES R WOOD …Hudson River Music Hall Productions Inc: $500 · Arts & CultureHudson River Mu…THE ALBANY DAMIEN CENTER INC: $1,400 · Human Services
Other$28,450Education$12,800Health$8,950Arts & Culture$8,450Human Services$1,400

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $10,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGLENS FALLS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $7,650 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTRI-COUNTY UNITED WAY INC: $3,700 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $3,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALBANY DAMIEN CENTER INC: $1,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOME MADE THEATER INC: $1,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEUBEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetKEUKA COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWEST GLENS FALLS EMERGENCY SQUAD INC: $900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE GEORGE MUSIC FESTIVAL: $750 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW YORK STATE MILITARY: $500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCHARLES R WOOD THEATER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHudson River Music Hall Productions Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $400 over 1y, 0.0% 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 COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GLENS FALLS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TRI-COUNTY UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ALBANY DAMIEN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HOME MADE THEATER INC ↗
  • Who funds PRINCETON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds STEUBEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds KEUKA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds WEST GLENS FALLS EMERGENCY SQUAD INC ↗
  • Who funds LAKE GEORGE MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds THE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds QUEENSBURY COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIP ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW YORK STATE MILITARY ↗
  • Who funds CHARLES R WOOD THEATER INC ↗
  • Who funds Hudson River Music Hall Productions Inc ↗
  • Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗

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.

Charles R Wood Founda…The Community Foundat…Glens Falls FoundationGe Aerospace Foundati…Alfred Z Solomon Test…Cloudsplitter Foundat…JM McDonald Foundatio…Price Chopper's Golub…Ibm International Fou…The Bank of America C…Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…
Charles R Wood FoundationDE19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charles R Wood Foundation · The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Glens Falls Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Alfred Z Solomon Testamentary Trust · Cloudsplitter Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust

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 George a & Ann M Mathewson Trust Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George a & Ann M Mathewson Trust Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report 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.

    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 34 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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