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· 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 FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Education$24kHealth$7kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kHuman Services$1kMembership Benefit$1kCivil Rights$600Religion$600Community Improvement$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$100
Median grant
4
States reached
$94k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AUBURN HILLS FIRE FIGHTERS$1,000
MICHIGAN MASONIC HOME$100
THE SALVATION ARMY$100
AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY$100
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN$100
PRESBYTERIAN VILLAGES OF MFPC$100
FOCUS HOPE$100
MI AMERICAN LEGION FND$100
AUBURN HILLS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$100
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $900) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MICHIGAN MASONIC HOME: $100 → 12%FOCUS HOPE: $100 → 21%FOCUS HOPE: $100 → 21%MICHIGAN MASONIC HOME: $100 → 12%FOCUS HOPE: $100 → 21%MICHIGAN MASONIC HOME: $100 → 12%FOCUS HOPE: $100 → 21%FOCUS HOPE: $100 → 21%FOCUS HOPE: $100 → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$31k · 14 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +96% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
7

Total granted

$31k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+96%
+20%

Still filing today

29%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • UO
    University of Michigan
    3× · 2021–2024 · $6k · revenue +96%
  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
    6× · 2020–2025 · $600 · revenue +106%
  • F
    FOCUSHOPE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $600 · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • LT
    LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue -1%
  • OC
    OAKLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
  • SU
    STETSON UNIVERSITY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +8%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
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
4
Albright College

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

Education
5
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
6
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

7
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
10
Augsburg University

Augsburg university educates students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders.the augsburg experience is supported by an engaged community that is committed to intentional diversity in its…

Education
11
Saint John's University

To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.

12
Wesleyan University

Wesleyan university is dedicated to providing an education in liberal arts by building a diverse, energetic community of students, faculty, and staff who value independence of mind and generosity of spirit. see additional description in…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stetson University Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

University of Michigan — $6,140 · OtherUniversity of MichiganAUBURN HILLS FIRE FIGHTERS — $6,000 · OtherAUBURN HILLS FIRE FIGHTERSOAKLAND UNIVERSITY — $5,763 · OtherOAKLAND UNIVERSITYWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY — $4,640 · OtherWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITYMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY — $3,500 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYOAKLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $2,100 · OtherOAKLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE+8 more — $3,200 · Other+8 moreLAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY — $2,740 · EducationLAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL…STETSON UNIVERSITY INC — $1,750 · EducationSTETSON UNIVERSITY INCHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $1,750 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGEDUKE UNIVERSITY — $1,750 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYFOCUSHOPE — $600 · Human ServicesMichigan Masonic Home — $300 · Human ServicesSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $600 · HealthPRESBYTERIAN VILLAGE NORTH FOREFRONT LIVING — $100 · Housing & Shelter
Other$31,343Education$7,990Human Services$900Health$600Housing & Shelter$100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $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
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds University of Michigan
  • Who funds LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds STETSON UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
  • Who funds FOCUSHOPE
  • Who funds Michigan Masonic Home
  • Who funds PRESBYTERIAN VILLAGE NORTH FOREFRONT LIVING

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Lorraine D Matson Tua funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Stetson University Inc0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report 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, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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