· Private foundation
Matrix Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $141k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHABAD LUBAVITCH | $50,000 |
| PRINCETON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| JCC OF GREATER MONMOUTH COUNTY | $50,000 |
| HACKENSACK MERIDAN FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADALEPHIS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CENTER FOR CREATIVE CHANGE INC | $25,000 |
| HOMEFRONT | $25,000 |
| CONGREGATION MAGEN DAVID OF | $16,062 |
| NEWARK BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SHIPPENSBURG COMMUNITY PARKS | $10,000 |
| THE RYAN WOLFE KOSSAR FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ISLES INC | $10,000 |
| EMERGENCY CHILDREN'S HELP ORGANIZATION | $10,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF HUDSON VALLEY | $5,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF GREATER NEWBURGH | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
36 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
HOMEFRONT INC8× · 2018–2025 · $200k · revenue +73%
ISLES INC5× · 2021–2025 · $70k · revenue +31%- EPElijahs Promise Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER MONMOUTH COUNTYone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -14% · 36% of their budget
- NNJPACone grant, 2024 · $250k
- BMBETH MEDRASH GOVOHA OF AMERICAone grant, 2022 · $144k
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.
The mission of the emmanuel cancer foundation (ecf) is to provide new jersey families faced with pediatric cancer a place to turn for comfort and relief through free supportive services tailored to each family.
Jewish family service of greater new haven (jfsgnh) supports and strengthens individual, family, and community life by providing a wide range of social services. we welcome people of all ages, races, ethnicities, sexual orientations,…
To further the purposes of jewish family & children's services of northern new jersey, inc.
Mjhs home care is a not-for-profit, certified home health agency (chha), committed to providing skilled nursing and rehabilitation services for individuals recuperating at home from an acute episode, often elderly and at-risk members of…
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.
The network is an international membership association of more than 170 non profit human service agencies in the united states, canada and israel. its members provide a full range of human services for the jewish community and beyond,…
Jewish family & children's service cares for individuals and families by providing exceptional human services guided by jewish traditions of social responsibility, compassion, and respect for all members of the community.jf&cs fulfills its…
The child center of ny strengthens children and families with skills, opportunities, and emotional support to build healthy, successful lives.
Jewish home of central new york residential living's mission is to assure maximum independence and dignity offering a broad range of the highest quality of health, residential and community services. jewish home is committed to maintaining…
To provide hospice services on both an inpatient and outpatient basis
To obtain funds and property by gift and apply the income and principal thereof, either directly or through contributions to jewish home and rehabilitation center, home at rockleigh, jewish home assisted living, and the jewish home family,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Special Children Center and the most unlike its peers is Friends of High School Park. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 76 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 JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER MONMOUTH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CREATIVE CHANGE ↗
- Who funds HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds ISLES INC ↗
- Who funds Elijahs Promise Inc ↗
- Who funds Gemma Services ↗
- Who funds RYAN WOLFE KOSSAR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Carl Vincent Bini Memorial Fund ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STATEN ISLAND NFP ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY CHILDRENS HELP ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRENTON LITERACY MOVEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF GREATER NEWBURGH 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: Investors Foundation Inc · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Richmond County Savings Foundation · Oceanfirst Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Matrix Foundation Inc 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.
- The Childrens Home Society of New Jersey — 43% of income from government
- Isles Inc — 21% of income from government
- Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
- Yeshiva Keter Torah Inc — 8% of income from government
- Axelrod Performing Arts Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Special Children Center — 5% of income from government
- Elijahs Promise Inc — 1% 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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