· Public charity
Matter
MATTER is a minnesota-based global health nonprofit on a mission to help people launch projects that improve communities.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHAMWARI PROJECTS LIMITED | $835,117 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 52% of grant dollars ($2.1M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 48% that went abroad ($2.0M) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Beyond the US: 48% of all-years giving ($2.0M)
3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
Grants abroad, by region: $24M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 5 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: HEALTHCARE, EDUCATION, NUTRITION, EMERGENCY AID
Stated purpose: HEALTHCARE, EDUCATION, NUTRITION, EMERGENCY AID
Stated purpose: HEALTHCARE, EDUCATION, NUTRITION, EMERGENCY AID
Stated purpose: HEALTHCARE, EDUCATION, NUTRITION, EMERGENCY AID
Stated purpose: HEALTHCARE, EDUCATION, NUTRITION, EMERGENCY AID
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 35% of Matter’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +303% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 6 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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2020–2023 · $1.7M
- SPSHAMWARI PROJECTS LIMITED2× · 2023–2024 · $1.5M
- GDGORGUI DIENG FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2023 · $328k
Funded once
- FGFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THEone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +10%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $15k
- LWLIVING WITH HOPEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +433%
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.
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.
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To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
Our mission is help and provide food for the most marginalized community
housing and feeding the homeless
Good neighbors usa is an international humanitarian and development organization committed to build a global community where people live together in health, harmony, and dignity.
The union gospel mission duluth is a welcoming christian nonprofit organization that serves as a refuge and is committed to nourishing peoples physical, spiritual, and social needs. through our on-site meal program, community housing…
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AIRBRIDGE RELIEF plays a vital role in helping refugees and people in war-torn areas through planning, coordination and execution on the delivery and support of humanitarian aid. Our support and work involves helping in three major ways:…
How this is measured
14 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Matter funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Matter. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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