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Michigan · Private foundation

Lorraine D Matson Tua

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.

$2k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
8%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$100
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 12
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$94k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Lorraine D Matson Tua funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving9$2k0%
FY202412$10k8%
FY202311$5k27%
FY202212$7k17%
FY202112$7k25%
FY202012$8kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$24kHealth$7kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kHuman Services$1kMembership Benefit$1kCivil Rights$600Religion$600Community Improvement$500Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Michigan$6,14031%
Oakland University$5,7633n/a
Michigan State University$3,5002n/a
Lawrence Technological University$2,74010%
Stetson University Inc$1,75010%
Duke University$1,75010%
The Salvation Army$6006n/a
Shriners Hospitals for Children$60060%
Focushope$60060%
Michigan Masonic Home$30030%
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All grantees of Lorraine D Matson Tua by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Michigan$6,14031%
Oakland University$5,7633n/a
Michigan State University$3,5002n/a
Lawrence Technological University$2,74010%
Stetson University Inc$1,75010%
Duke University$1,75010%
The Salvation Army$6006n/a
Shriners Hospitals for Children$60060%
Focushope$60060%
Michigan Masonic Home$30030%
Presbyterian Village North Forefront Living$10010%

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($15k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lorraine D Matson Tua supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Michigan: $6,140 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLawrence Technological University: $2,740 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStetson University Inc: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDuke University: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFocushope: $600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMichigan Masonic Home: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPresbyterian Village North Forefront Living: $100 over 1y, 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 8.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile Foundation
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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 Lorraine D Matson Tua

How much does Lorraine D Matson Tua give?
Lorraine D Matson Tua reported 9 grants totaling $1,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Lorraine D Matson Tua fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (59%), Health (16%), Public Safety & Disaster (15%).
Who are Lorraine D Matson Tua's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: University of Michigan ($6k), Oakland University ($6k), Michigan State University ($4k).
Does Lorraine D Matson Tua fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lorraine D Matson Tua 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 Lorraine D Matson Tua?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Lorraine D Matson Tua based?
Lorraine D Matson Tua is based in MI.

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 22 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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