· Private foundation
Matem Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IDEA VILLAGE | $30,000 |
| ST JUDE | $5,000 |
| GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BRIDGE HOUSEGRACE HOUSE | $5,000 |
| VERITE | $5,000 |
| AUDUBON NATURE INSTITUTE | $3,000 |
| NEW ORLEANS ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS | $2,500 |
| THE PRESERVATION RESOURCE CENTER | $2,500 |
| HOGS FOR THE CAUSE | $2,500 |
| THE LOUISIANA MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| NOMA | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +88% since the first grant, against +54% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 26 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Matem Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Matem Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Verite Inc: 19% of income from government
How this is measured
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