· Private foundation
Mattei 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.
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 $10k13 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $44k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $315k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS | $315,000 |
| MYERS PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $50,000 |
| ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE MINT MUSEUM | $19,450 |
| THE MITCHELL BAYS TURNER PEDIATRIC FUND | $9,335 |
| CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA | $5,000 |
| ST EDWARD'S CATHOLIC CHURCH | $3,000 |
| BLUFFTON SELF HELP | $3,000 |
| PALMETTO ANIMAL LEAGUE | $2,500 |
| THE HANLEY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| ST GREGORY THE GREAT | $2,500 |
| BLUMENTHAL PERFORMING ARTS | $1,500 |
| CAT CAY MEDICAL CLINIC FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| QUEENS UNIVERSITY OF CHARLOTTE | $1,300 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 3% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 3 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- CCCHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL8× · 2017–2025 · $855k · revenue +5%
- AHATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $700k · revenue +195%
- MMMINT MUSEUM OF ART INC8× · 2017–2025 · $86k · revenue +107%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
- MFMitchell's Fundone grant, 2020 · $6k
- SOSEEDS OF HOPE INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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 bladen county hospital foundation is to serve the community by building awareness and philanthropic support for bladen county hospital as it provides compassionate, quality healthcare for all its patients.
Carolina ballet's mission is to perform world-class professional ballet, entertaining and enlightening audiences in raleigh, the triangle region, the state of north carolina, and beyond. carolina ballet works to accomplish this mission by…
Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.
To assist carteret general hospital in providing the best possible healthcare to the people of carteret county through fund raising programs that support community based programs, purchase of vital equipment, capital expansion, renovations…
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
Provide the highest quality, patient-centered health care services for low-income and other underserved individuals.
Facilitate networking among hospitals
To solicit and receive gifts, grants, bequests and contributions for the support of carolina meadows, inc. in order to enhance or extend its mission, programs, services, and facilities.
Collaborate to promote and advance the charlotte region, creating opportunity, economic growth and prosperity for all.
To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baptist Children's Homes of North Carolina Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Hanley Foundation. 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 43 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 43 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 CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINT MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds BLUFFTON SELF HELP INC ↗
- Who funds MITCHELL'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PALMETTO ANIMAL LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Queens University of Charlotte ↗
- Who funds The Foundation for Tomorrow Inc ↗
- Who funds OPERA CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds THE KINGS ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc ↗
- Who funds HANLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAT CAY MEDICAL CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE BALLET ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds C-CHANGE CONVERSATIONS ↗
- Who funds KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Dancing with the Stars of Charlotte Inc ↗
- Who funds BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOMES OF NORTH CAROLINA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF BURKE COUNTY ↗
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: Duke Energy Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · KPB Corporation · Dalton-Brand Foundation Inc · The Perper Family Foundation · Foundation for the Charlotte Jewish Community · The Dickson Foundation Inc · Dowd Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Mattei 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.