· Private foundation
George a & Ann M Mathewson Trust Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of GEORGE A & ANN M MATHEWSON TRUST FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Colgate University | $2,700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Glens Falls Hospital Foundation | $500 |
| University of Michigan | $500 |
| The Friends & Family of Princeton Public Library | $300 |
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 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +19% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CUCOLGATE UNIVERSITY4× · 2022–2025 · $10k · revenue +19%
- GFGLENS FALLS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +167%
- TUTRI-COUNTY UNITED WAY INC4× · 2017–2021 · $4k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- CPCaldwell Presbyterian Churchone grant, 2017 · $2k
- TATHE ALBANY DAMIEN CENTER INCone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -34%
- SCSTEUBEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -33%
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.
Syracuse stage tells stories that engage, entertain, and inspire us to see life beyond our own experiences.
Theatrical performances combining chamber music with stories of historical figures from 19th and 20th centuries for public appreciation of the arts.
Wmht enriches communities and elevates diverse perspectives by providing content, connection, and conversation that advance education, culture, and civic engagement.
To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
Opera saratoga's innovative world class performances and programs inspire, educate, and heal audiences and artists through the power of the human voice.
The mission of the Binghamton Philharmonic is building community through the power of live music.
Saratoga arts was established to enrich the region by cultivating a vibrant arts community and by ensuring that the arts are accessible to all.
Our mission is to educate, engage, and empower through theory, practice, and performance.
State theatre of ithaca, inc. was organized to present top-quality entertainment in a variety of formats to enhance the lives of residents of the ithaca community and the surrounding finger lakes region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saratoga Performing Arts Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Steuben County Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 51 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
19 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. 19 of the 34 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 COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GLENS FALLS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALBANY DAMIEN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOME MADE THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds STEUBEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds KEUKA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WEST GLENS FALLS EMERGENCY SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE GEORGE MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds THE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds QUEENSBURY COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIP ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK STATE MILITARY ↗
- Who funds Hudson River Music Hall Productions Inc ↗
- Who funds CHARLES R WOOD THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗
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: Charles R Wood Foundation · The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Glens Falls Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Alfred Z Solomon Testamentary Trust · Cloudsplitter Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust
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 George a & Ann M Mathewson Trust 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.
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.