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Jas H Matthews & Co Educational & Charitable Trust at a glance

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Jas H Matthews & Co Educational & Charitable Trust

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.

$219k
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$268kHealth$105kEducation$65kHuman Services$25kFood & Nutrition$18kPublic Safety & Disaster$12kHousing & Shelter$11kEnvironment$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $94k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $125k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VERLAND FOUNDATION$15,000
GREATER PGH FOOD BANK$10,000
CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE$10,000
FUNERAL SERVICE FOUNDATION$10,000
GREATER PGH FOOD BANK$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
CATHOLIC CHARITES$10,000
WV CARING (WEST VIRGINIA) HOSPICE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
LIGHT OF LIFE$10,000
SOUTHPORT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$10,000
NAZARETH PREP$10,000
MIRACLE LEAGUE OF WESTERN PA$5,000
NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY$5,000
5 FOR KIDS$5,000
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$360k · 22 repeat orgs$167k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
5

Total granted

$360k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
0%

Still filing today

41%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $141k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
HealthEmploymentHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • V
    VERLAND
    2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +18%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $20k · revenue +16%
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • JA
    Jubilee Assoc Jubilee Kitchen
    one grant, 2024 · $6k
  • JA
    Junior Achievement Western PA
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • BL
    BENDER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.

03Its 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
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
2
Highmark Health Group

Working as an integrated system within highmark health, employees at all of ahn's care sites, including hospitals, health + wellness pavilions, primary and specialty care offices and more, are committed to improving health and promoting…

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3
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
4
Upmc Pinnacle Hospitals

Upmc pinnacle hospitals mission as a charitable organization is dedicatied to maintaining and improving the health and quality of life for all persons of the central pennsylvania area.

Health
5
Lehigh Valley Hospital

Our mission is to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value, supported by education and research.

Health
6
Holy Redeemer Health System

As a catholic health system, rooted in the tradition of the sisters of the holy redeemer, we care, comfort and heal, following the example of jesus, proclaiming the hope god offers in the midst of human struggle.

Health
7
Vna Home Health Services

Vna home health services provides part-time, skilled, intermittent home health services that have been ordered by a physician and are medically necessary to the treatment of an illness or injury. vna home health services offers a wide…

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8
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
9
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
10
Cook Children's Physician Network

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.

Health
11
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
12
Philhaven

Philhaven promotes hope, healing and wholeness through the provision of behavioral resources.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Pennsylvania Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 46 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VERLAND: $30,000 · OtherVERLANDSouthport Christian School: $30,000 · OtherSouthport Christian SchoolIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGREATER PGH FOOD BANK: $20,000 · OtherChildrens Institute of Pgh: $20,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC: $15,000 · OtherCatholic Charities: $15,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITES: $15,000 · OtherUSO: $15,000 · Other5 for Kids: $15,000 · OtherAmerican Red Cross: $15,000 · OtherSalvation Army: $15,000 · Other+22 more: $141,900 · Other+22 moreAmerican Heart Association Inc: $20,000 · HealthAmerican …CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthCHILDREN'…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $10,000 · HealthAMERICAN …American Diabetes Association: $5,000 · HealthAmerican …THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $37,006 · PhilanthropyLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $21,400 · Human ServicesVERLAND FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesNAZARETH PREP: $30,000 · EmploymentBENDER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $5,000 · EmploymentTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $15,000 · EducationGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $11,400 · Food & NutritionMIRACLE LEAGUE OF WESTERN PA: $7,200 · Youth Development
Other$376,900Health$45,000Philanthropy$37,006Human Services$36,400Employment$35,000Education$15,000Food & Nutrition$11,400Youth Development$7,200

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $37,006 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVERLAND: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNAZARETH PREP: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $21,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVERLAND FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $11,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIRACLE LEAGUE OF WESTERN PA: $7,200 over 1y, 17% of budgetBENDER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $5,000 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 THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds VERLAND ↗
  • Who funds NAZARETH PREP ↗
  • Who funds LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds VERLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF WESTERN PA ↗
  • Who funds BENDER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jas H Matthews & Co Educational & Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jas H Matthews & Co Educational & Charitable Trust. 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%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 46 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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