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Joseph & Christina Mathewson Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Joseph & Christina Mathewson Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$13k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its 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, FY2017 to 2023.

Religion$127kArts & Culture$60kCivil Rights$51kEducation$22kRecreation & Sports$21kAnimals$8kInternational$6kEnvironment$2kOther$0
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$7,671
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC$7,671
PARK PRIDE ATLANTA INC$5,796
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 58% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF NEEDHAM: $34k → 7%SMITH COLLEGE: $1k → 12%MOUNTAIN MEADOW YOUTH FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%THE EPISCOPAL ACADEMY: $10k → 10%OVERBROOK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $25k → 22%HAMILTON COLLEGE: $500 → 16%EPISCOPAL RELIEF DEVELOPMENT: $5k → 17%ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS CHURCH: $56k → 11%COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN: $1k → 13%METHOW ARTS ALLIANCE: $500 → 17%FLETCHER MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $500 → 9%KEYWAYDIN FOUNDATION: $15k → 9%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE COLLEGE: $1k → 10%FRIENDS OF KAKAMEGA: $500 → 7%THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF NEEDHAM: $1k → 7%SMITH COLLEGE: $1k → 12%OVERBROOK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $1k → 22%HAMILTON COLLEGE: $500 → 16%DING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC: $8k → 11%VIRGINIA HIGHLAND CHURCH: $50k → 13%METHOW CONSERVANCY: $500 → 17%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE COLLEGE: $1k → 10%SAFE SPACE RADIO: $50k → 7%THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF NEEDHAM: $1k → 7%SMITH COLLEGE: $1k → 12%OVERBROOK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $1k → 22%HAMILTON COLLEGE: $500 → 16%ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS CHURCH: $2k → 11%VIRGINIA HIGHLAND CHURCH: $1k → 13%METHOW CONSERVANCY: $500 → 17%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE COLLEGE: $1k → 10%THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF NEEDHAM: $1k → 7%SMITH COLLEGE: $1k → 12%OVERBROOK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $1k → 22%ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS CHURCH: $2k → 11%VIRGINIA HIGHLAND CHURCH: $1k → 13%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE COLLEGE: $1k → 10%THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF NEEDHAM: $1k → 7%SMITH COLLEGE: $1k → 12%OVERBROOK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $1k → 22%ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS CHURCH: $2k → 11%WESTON PLAYHOUSE: $1k → 9%ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS CHURCH: $2k → 11%WESTON PLAYHOUSE: $800 → 9%FISH: $600 → 11%WESTON PLAYHOUSE: $800 → 9%FISH: $550 → 11%FISH: $550 → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
WA
MT
NY
MA
PA
GA
FL
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$251k · 11 repeat orgs$62k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2023, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
10

Total granted

$251k
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+36%

Still filing today

36%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureAnimalsInternationalOther
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

  • SM
    ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS CHURCH
    5× · 2017–2021 · $64k
  • VH
    VIRGINIA HIGHLAND CHURCH
    3× · 2019–2021 · $52k
  • SS
    Safe Space Radio
    3× · 2019–2021 · $51k · revenue +288% · 48% of their budget

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • THE KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +37%
  • EA
    Episcopal Academygraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +43%
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
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
2
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
3
Elizabethtown College

Provide a transformative educational experience that cultivates strengths of its students.

Education
4
The Trustees of Grinnell College

To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…

Education
5
The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College

Located in south hadley, massachusetts, mount holyoke college is a highly selective, nondenominational, residential, research liberal arts college for women that is gender-diverse and welcomes applications from female, transgender, and…

Education
6
Phillips Exeter Academy

Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…

Education
7
Whittier College

Whittier College is a residential four-year liberal arts institution that prepares students from diverse backgrounds to excel in a complex global society. Through challenging, interactive courses, taught by accomplished professors,…

Education
8
Masters School

The masters school celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. a community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do - to be a power for good in the world.

—
9
Pomona College

Throughout its history, pomona college has educated men and women of exceptional promise. we gather individuals, regardless of financial circumstances, into a small residential community that is strongly rooted in southern california yet…

Education
10
Goucher College

Goucher College provides an innovative liberal arts education that prepares students with a broad, humane perspective for a life of inquiry, creativity, and critical and analytical thinking. The College's vision is to become a top-100…

Education
11
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
12
The Meadows School

The Meadows School devlops in its students a love of, and respect for, learning. Inspiring them to seek knowledge independently and preparing them for higher academic pursuits. The school maintains high standards and seeks to instill in…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Methow Conservancy; the most unlike its peers is Fletcher Memorial Library Llc. 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

12 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. 12 of the 24 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS CHURCH: $64,000 · OtherST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS CHURCHVIRGINIA HIGHLAND CHURCH: $52,000 · OtherVIRGINIA HIGHLAND CHURCHTHE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF NEEDHAM: $38,000 · OtherTHE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF NEEDHAMOVERBROOK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $29,000 · OtherOVERBROOK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+10 more: $18,150 · Other+10 moreSafe Space Radio: $51,000 · Arts & CultureSafe Space RadioTHE KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsPARK PRIDE INC: $5,796 · Recreation & SportsEpiscopal Academy: $10,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $5,000 · EducationTrustees of Hamilton College: $2,000 · EducationDING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC: $7,671 · AnimalsMETHOW CONSERVANCY: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF KAKAMEGA: $500 · International
Other$216,150Arts & Culture$51,000Recreation & Sports$20,796Education$17,000Animals$7,671Youth Development$2,000International$500

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 budgetSafe Space Radio: $51,000 over 3y, 48% of budgetTHE KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEpiscopal Academy: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC: $7,671 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARK PRIDE INC: $5,796 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Hamilton College: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMETHOW CONSERVANCY: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF KAKAMEGA: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTompkins County Senior Citizens Council: $150 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 Safe Space Radio ↗
  • Who funds THE KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Episcopal Academy ↗
  • Who funds DING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds PARK PRIDE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Hamilton College ↗
  • Who funds METHOW CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Fletcher Memorial Library LLC ↗
  • Who funds Methow Arts Alliance ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF KAKAMEGA ↗
  • Who funds Tompkins County Senior Citizens Council ↗

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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN9.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Joseph & Christina Mathewson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph & Christina Mathewson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
  • Fletcher Memorial Library Llc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 24 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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