North Carolina · 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.
- $448k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $315,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 23
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Mattei Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $448k | 12% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $456k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $322k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $403k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $398k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $386k | 23% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $488k | 15% |
| FY2017 | 23 | $285k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charlotte Country Day School | $854,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Atrium Health Foundation | $700,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Mint Museum of Art Inc | $86,370 | 8 | 0% |
| Bluffton Self Help Inc | $28,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Mitchell's House Inc | $25,335 | 3 | 3% |
| Palmetto Animal League | $20,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Queens University of Charlotte | $15,475 | 8 | 0% |
| The Foundation for Tomorrow Inc | $12,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Opera Carolina | $7,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Seeds of Hope Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mattei Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About Mattei Foundation
- How much does Mattei Foundation give?
- Mattei Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $447,835 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Mattei Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (61%), Health (23%), Religion (8%).
- Who are Mattei Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Charlotte Country Day School ($855k), Atrium Health Foundation ($700k), Mint Museum of Art Inc ($86k).
- Does Mattei Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mattei Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mattei Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Duke Energy Foundation, Albemarle Foundation, Foundation for the Carolinas.
- Where is Mattei Foundation based?
- Mattei Foundation is based in NC.
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