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Matem Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IDEA VILLAGE | $30,000 |
| GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| VERITE | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE | $5,000 |
| BRIDGE HOUSEGRACE HOUSE | $5,000 |
| AUDUBON NATURE INSTITUTE | $3,000 |
| THE PRESERVATION RESOURCE CENTER | $2,500 |
| HOGS FOR THE CAUSE | $2,500 |
| NOMA | $2,500 |
| NEW ORLEANS ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS | $2,500 |
| THE LOUISIANA MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $2,500 |
| NOTRE DAME SEMINARY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY | $2,000 |
| WWOZ | $1,000 |
| ACADEMY OF THE SACRED HEART | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +88% since the first grant, against +54% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ANAudubon Nature Institute Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $12k · revenue +88%
- TPTHE PRESERVATION RESOURCE CENTER3× · 2021–2024 · $6k
- BHBRIDGE HOUSEGRACE HOUSE2× · 2022–2024 · $6k
Funded once
- UFUTAH FILM CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +54%
- OCOCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +19%
- LMLSU MANSHIP SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Cultural exchange and home hospitality.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of new orleans & company is to inspire, promote and encourage travel to our city for the economic, social and community benefit of new orleans and its people. through marketing, public relations, direct sales to leisure…
The mission of the new orleans museum of art is to inspire the love of art; to collect, preserve, exhibit and present excellence in the visual arts; to educate, challenge and engage a diverse public.
See schedule o for detail. the new orleans film society discovers, cultivates, and amplifies diverse voices of filmmakers who tell the stories of our time. we produce the oscar-qualifying new orleans film festival annually and invest…
The new orleans startup fund is a seed capital fund established by the greater new orleans businesses and financial leaders to accelerate the growth of early-stage, innovative businesses into venture-ready companies. the startup funds'…
Foundation for louisiana is the people's foundation. we expand opportunity and wellbeing across the state by investing in local leadership and community-driven solutions to strengthen the conditions that help every louisianan live a safe,…
The Arts Council of New Orleans dba Arts New Orleans is a private, nonprofit organization with 501(c)(3) status dedicated to supporting arts and culture in the city.
To empower communities and help change liver for african americans and other emerging communities and groups. the urban league seeks to eliminate barriers to opportunity and assist individuals in attaining economic self sufficiency.
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Reconcile New Orleans Inc and the most unlike its peers is Audubon Nature Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 26 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 THE IDEA VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH FILM CENTER ↗
- Who funds Audubon Nature Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VERITE INC ↗
- Who funds OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds HOGS FOR THE CAUSE INC ↗
- Who funds The Louisiana Museum Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS LTD ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WWOZ INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds RECONCILE NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Louis & Lillian Glazer Family Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · Ruth U Fertel Foundation · Robert E Zetzmann Family Foundation · Ella West Freeman Foundation · J Edgar Monroe Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Matem Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Verite Inc — 19% of income from government
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.
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