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Matthew 25 40 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.

$11k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Religion$2.0MEducation$545kHealth$143kYouth Development$30kRecreation & Sports$13kHousing & Shelter$2kHuman Services$2kCivil Rights$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $500
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$84
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PAUL RICHARDSON CO MATTHEW 25 40 FO$10,000
PAWS OF LOVE ANIMAL RESCUE$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WORD OF LIFE: $5k → 10%PAWS OF LOVE ANIMAL RESCUE: $500 → 5%CUDAS UNHOOKED: $1k → 12%SOUTHSIDE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $250k → 10%MICHAEL KNIGHTS CHILDREN EDUCATION FUND: $10k → 15%NATIONAL D-DAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $13k → 8%VIRGINIA FIRST AUDIT: $3k → 12%ROADS TO RECOVERY: $100k → 13%PRAISE THE LORD LLC: $8k → 19%THOMAS ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH: $1.7M → 20%PAUL RICHARDSON CO MATTHEW 25 40 FO: $10k → 20%ATLAS FOUNDATION: $10k → 19%CUDAS UNHOOKED: $1k → 12%SOUTHSIDE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $250k → 10%ALL NATIONS COMMUNITY CHURCH: $25k → 13%HERITAGE BAPTIST CHURCH: $204k → 20%WORD OF LIFE: $15k → 20%HALIFAX HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%ROADS TO RECOVERY: $10k → 13%HERITAGE BAPTIST CHURCH: $22k → 20%WORD OF LIFE: $5k → 20%BLUE RIDGE PREGNANCY CENTER: $10k → 13%THOMAS ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH: $15k → 20%ROADS TO RECOVERY: $10k → 13%ROADS TO RECOVERY: $8k → 13%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LYNCHBURG: $30k → 13%IRON LIVES: $25k → 13%YWCA: $2k → 13%ONE COMMUNITY ONE VOICE: $500 → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.6M · 6 repeat orgs$155k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against -21% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
13

Total granted

$2.6M
$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
-21%

Still filing today

50%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • TR
    THOMAS ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH
    2× · 2021–2023 · $1.7M
  • SC
    SOUTHSIDE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $500k · revenue -9%
  • HB
    HERITAGE BAPTIST CHURCH
    2× · 2019–2020 · $226k

Funded once

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LYNCHBURG
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -21%
  • IL
    IRON LIVES INC
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -8%
  • AN
    ALL NATIONS COMMUNITY CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Axiom Christian Classical School

To provide a comprehensive Christian Classical education to grades 1-12.

Education
2
Liberty Christian School Inc

To provide quality educational services to students in grades kindergarten through twelve, in a Christ-centered environment.

Education
3
Life Choices Resource Center Inc

To provide pregnancy testing (including ultrasound examinations), counseling, and referrals as needed (including post-abortion counseling) in our offices and through our 24-hour help-line.

4
Covenant Christian School

Covenant Christian School (CCS) is committed to the academic, spiritual, physical, and social growth of our children in a Christ-centered environment. Continued on Schedule O Covenant Christian School cultivates a distinctive generation…

Education
5
Collin County Cornerstone Christian Academy

The organization operates a non-denominational school providing a christian environment for learning.

Education
6
Cornerstone Christian School

The school provides a biblically sound education program of high academic standards in a loving environment that meets the need of the whole child: spiritually, academically, physically, and socially.

7
Coastal Christian High School Inc

Provide faith based education with an emphasis on college preparation.

Education
8
Arlington Christian School Inc

The school's mission is to train each student in a Godly manner in the areas of social, spiritual, and academic development.

9
University Charter School

Operation of a public charter school in Livingston, AL.

Education
10
Arundel Christian School Inc

Non denominational Christian School open to all ethnicities to provide quality Pre-K thru 12th grade education where positive values are supported and enhanced. Approximately 305 students are enrolled.

11
Lux Classical Christian Inc

Lux Classical Christian Inc. is a 3-day-a-week Classical Christian education program. We encourage Christ-centered leaders who reflect His depth, wisdom, and virtue. We partner with parents to equip children spiritually, academically, and…

Education
12
Lake Norman Christian School

The mission of Lake Norman Christian School is to provide a college-preparatory education in a safe and nurturing environment grounded in the Christian faith.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lynchburg and the most unlike its peers is Blue Ridge Pregnancy Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THOMAS ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH — $1,694,601 · OtherTHOMAS ROAD BAPTIST CHURCHHERITAGE BAPTIST CHURCH — $226,395 · OtherHERITAGE BAPTIST CHURCH+12 more — $113,200 · Other+12 moreSOUTHSIDE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC — $500,000 · EducationSOUTHSIDE CHRISTIAN S…+1 more — $9,650 · EducationROADS TO RECOVERY INC — $127,500 · HealthBlue Ridge Pregnancy Center Inc — $10,000 · HealthBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LYNCHBURG — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentNATIONAL D-DAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $12,500 · Recreation & SportsCUDAS UNHOOKED INC — $2,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$2,034,196Education$509,650Health$137,500Youth Development$30,000Recreation & Sports$12,500Housing & Shelter$2,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSOUTHSIDE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC — $500,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetROADS TO RECOVERY INC — $127,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LYNCHBURG — $30,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetIRON LIVES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetNATIONAL D-DAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBlue Ridge Pregnancy Center Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCUDAS UNHOOKED INC — $2,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budget
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 SOUTHSIDE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds ROADS TO RECOVERY INC
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LYNCHBURG
  • Who funds IRON LIVES INC
  • Who funds NATIONAL D-DAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Blue Ridge Pregnancy Center Inc
  • Who funds ATLAS FOUNDATION CORPORATION
  • Who funds CUDAS UNHOOKED 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.

Foster FoundationVA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foster Foundation · Centra Health Inc · Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Matthew 25 40 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Matthew 25 40 Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Matthew 25 40 Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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