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Harris Mathews Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$736k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$736,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$736,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 72
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$6.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Harris Mathews Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$736k0%
FY20231$731k0%
FY20221$951k0%
FY20211$938k0%
FY20201$788k0%
FY20191$826k0%
FY20181$710k100%
FY201772$766kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$5.8MInternational$118kAnimals$113kHuman Services$106kEducation$105kHousing & Shelter$60kArts & Culture$50kYouth Development$50kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
PA
NJ
CA
MO
MD
AZ
TN
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Opportunity Alliance$25,00080%
Good Shepherd Food Bank$25,00080%
Maine Seacoast Mission$20,0008n/a
Nora Cronin Presentation Academy$20,0008n/a
Adaptive Sports Foundation Inc$20,00081%
Cornelia Connely Center for Education$20,0008n/a
Riding to the Top$15,00083%
Sco Family of Services$15,00080%
The Bangor Area Homeless Shelter$15,00082%
Straight Ahead Pictures Inc$15,0002n/a
Show all 38 grantees
All grantees of Harris Mathews Charitable Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Opportunity Alliance$25,00080%
Good Shepherd Food Bank$25,00080%
Maine Seacoast Mission$20,0008n/a
Nora Cronin Presentation Academy$20,0008n/a
Adaptive Sports Foundation Inc$20,00081%
Cornelia Connely Center for Education$20,0008n/a
Riding to the Top$15,00083%
Sco Family of Services$15,00080%
The Bangor Area Homeless Shelter$15,00082%
Straight Ahead Pictures Inc$15,0002n/a
St Ignatius School$15,0008n/a
Catholic Near East Welfare Assoc Inc$14,3008n/a
God's Love We Deliver Inc$10,00080%
Alfond Youth & Community Center$10,00080%
Midcoast Humane$10,00080%
Midcoast Habitat for Humanity$10,0008n/a
Equine Advocates Incorporated$7,50081%
Homefront Inc$7,50080%
International Fund for Animal Welfare Inc$7,00080%
Blue Hill Heritage Trust$5,00080%
Farm Sanctuary Inc$5,00080%
Alzheimer's Foundation of America Inc$5,00080%
Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland$5,00080%
Ozanam Hall Inc$5,0001n/a
The Gathering Place$5,00084%
The Ark Pope Memorial Animal Shelter$3,50081%
Alley Cat Allies Inc$2,50080%
In Defense of Animals$2,50080%
Return to Freedom Inc$2,50080%
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation$2,50080%
Home Inc$2,50080%
Guiding Eyes for the Blind Inc$1,50080%
The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee$1,00080%
Mercy Corps$1,00080%
Feline Rescue Inc$5008n/a
Lifesavers Inc$50080%
Turning Pointe Donkey Rescue Inc$50080%
Maine Friends of Animals$5008n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Harris Mathews Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Opportunity Alliance: $25,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $25,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAdaptive Sports Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetRiding to the Top: $15,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetSco Family of Services: $15,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bangor Area Homeless Shelter: $15,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetGod's Love We Deliver Inc: $10,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAlfond Youth & Community Center: $10,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMidcoast Humane: $10,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetEquine Advocates Incorporated: $7,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetHomefront Inc: $7,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Fund for Animal Welfare Inc: $7,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBlue Hill Heritage Trust: $5,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetFarm Sanctuary Inc: $5,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Foundation of America Inc: $5,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAnimal Refuge League of Greater Portland: $5,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetThe Gathering Place: $5,000 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetThe Ark Pope Memorial Animal Shelter: $3,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetAlley Cat Allies Inc: $2,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetIn Defense of Animals: $2,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetReturn to Freedom Inc: $2,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPartners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: $2,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHome Inc: $2,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGuiding Eyes for the Blind Inc: $1,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee: $1,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps: $1,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLifesavers Inc: $500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTurning Pointe Donkey Rescue Inc: $500 over 8y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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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.

Maine Community Foundation IncME29.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Harris Mathews Charitable Foundation Inc

How much does Harris Mathews Charitable Foundation Inc give?
Harris Mathews Charitable Foundation Inc reported 1 grants totaling $736,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 72 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Harris Mathews Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (90%), International (2%), Animals (2%).
Who are Harris Mathews Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Opportunity Alliance ($25k), Good Shepherd Food Bank ($25k), Maine Seacoast Mission ($20k).
Does Harris Mathews Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Harris Mathews Charitable Foundation Inc 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.
Which funders back the same organizations as Harris Mathews Charitable Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Elmina B Sewall Foundation, Machias Savings Bank Community Development Foundation.
Where is Harris Mathews Charitable Foundation Inc based?
Harris Mathews Charitable Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 73 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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