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Mathews Family Foundation

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.

$8k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$18kCivil Rights$4kEducation$3kFood & Nutrition$2kHealth$2kInternational$2kAnimals$1kScience & Tech$900Other$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$350
Median grant
6
States reached
$12k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hope for Ukraine$1,400
ACLU Foundation$1,000
WETA Foundation$600
Radio IQ Foundation$600
Doctors wo Borders Foundation$500
CSPI foundation$400
Pro Publica$400
Southern Poverty Law Center Foundat$400
Share Food Program$400
Fredericksburg Food Bank$350
Public Citizen Foundation$300
North Shore Animal League$300
wikimedia Foundation$300
Univ of Mary Washington Foundation$250
American Friends Service Committee$200
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $200) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%Internet Archive: $100 → 10%ECHO: $100 → 6%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

NY
PA
NJ
CA
VA
AR
TN
DC
LA
AL
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.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13k · 14 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
17

Total granted

$13k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+10%

Still filing today

43%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $2k · revenue +27%
  • NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $900 · revenue +3%
  • WF
    WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $800 · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • WR
    Wales Research Project
    one grant, 2024 · $14k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $400
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $400
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
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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2
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
3
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
4
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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5
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
6
American Civil Liberties Union Inc

As noted in its articles of incorporation, the mission of the aclu is "to maintain and advance civil liberties, including, without limitation, the freedoms of association, press, religion and speech, and the rights to the franchise, to due…

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7
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Iowa

The foundation works to defend and promote the constitution of the united states, focusing especially on the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 14th amendments. the foundation also works to defend and promote the constitution of the…

Civil Rights
8
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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9
Aclu Foundation of Massachusetts Inc

Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.

Civil Rights
10
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
11
United States Naval Institute

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.

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12
American Civil Liberties Union of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through advocacy and lobbying.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope for Ukraine Inc; the most unlike its peers is Internet Archive. 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

16 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. 16 of the 37 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Wales Research Project: $13,981 · OtherWales Research ProjectWETA Foundation: $1,500 · OtherWETA FoundationRadio IQ Foundation: $1,500 · OtherRadio IQ FoundationDoctors wo Borders Foundation: $1,100 · OtherSouthern Poverty Law Center Foundat: $1,000 · OtherFredericksburg Food Bank: $975 · OtherCSPI foundation: $900 · Other+21 more: $3,810 · Other+21 moreAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Civil RightsHOPE FOR UKRAINE INC: $1,400 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $300 · InternationalWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $800 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $450 · EducationSHARE FOOD PROGRAM: $900 · Food & NutritionNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC: $900 · AnimalsPRO PUBLICA INC: $600 · Arts & CultureART START INC: $250 · Arts & Culture
Other$24,766Civil Rights$2,000International$1,700Education$1,250Food & Nutrition$900Animals$900Arts & Culture$850

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 budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR UKRAINE INC: $1,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE FOOD PROGRAM: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetART START INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Blake Barklage Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetECHO INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternet Archive: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $50 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 AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE FOR UKRAINE INC ↗
  • Who funds SHARE FOOD PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ART START INC ↗
  • Who funds The Blake Barklage Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ECHO INC ↗
  • Who funds Internet Archive ↗
  • Who funds ARKANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL 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.

Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA10.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Mathews Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mathews Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 37 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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