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Matthew 25 Ministries Inc

The mission of Matthew 25: Ministries is to provide nutritional food to the hungry, clean water to the thirsty, clothing to the naked, affordable shelter to the homeless, medical care to the ill, and humanitarian supplies to those in need. Additionally, Matthew 25: Ministries is committed to educating the public on the conditions and…

$295M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Itemized grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2022
33%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2024
$70k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 7
FY2018 to FY2022
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$125M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 33% of the organizations Matthew 25 Ministries Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyReligionFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$70k100%
FY20223$50k33%
FY20215$51k60%
FY20204$95k100%
FY20197$66k100%
FY20184$167kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

International$445kEducation$41kFood & Nutrition$7kPublic Safety & Disaster$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Bread of Life Inc$100,0007n/a
Beth-El Farm Worker Ministry$65,0008n/a
The James Clinic$50,0001n/a
Miraclefeet$35,28511%
Neighborhood Bridges$30,00032%
Walnut Hills Baptist Church$26,0002n/a
Walnut Hills Baptist Church$25,0721n/a
Payton's Lemonade Stand$25,000411%
Foster Church$20,0001n/a
R-3 Restorations$16,800210%
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All grantees of Matthew 25 Ministries Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Bread of Life Inc$100,0007n/a
Beth-El Farm Worker Ministry$65,0008n/a
The James Clinic$50,0001n/a
Miraclefeet$35,28511%
Neighborhood Bridges$30,00032%
Walnut Hills Baptist Church$26,0002n/a
Walnut Hills Baptist Church$25,0721n/a
Payton's Lemonade Stand$25,000411%
Foster Church$20,0001n/a
R-3 Restorations$16,800210%
Montessori Open House$15,0001n/a
Partners India International Inc$13,00014%
COTA - Children's Organ Transplant Association$10,00010%
City Gospel Mission and Affiliates$10,00020%
Touching Moments$10,0005n/a
Pleasant Green Missionary Baptist$10,0004n/a
Second Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley$6,50010%
City of Blue Ash$6,0002n/a
Blood Cancer United Inc$5,00010%
The Childrens Hospital$5,00010%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($15k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Matthew 25 Ministries Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMiraclefeet: $35,285 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNeighborhood Bridges: $30,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetPayton's Lemonade Stand: $25,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetR-3 Restorations: $16,800 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetPartners India International Inc: $13,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCOTA - Children's Organ Transplant Association: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCity Gospel Mission and Affiliates: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Childrens Hospital: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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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.

United Way of Greater CincinnatiOH46.1× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Cincinnati · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Spaulding Foundation · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Freestore Foodbank Inc · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Millstone Fund · Tr Uw Jacob Schmidlapp #1 · Ruth J & Robert a Conway Foundation Inc · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Matthew 25 Ministries Inc?

Find your warmest path to Matthew 25 Ministries Inc 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.

About Matthew 25 Ministries Inc

How much does Matthew 25 Ministries Inc give?
Matthew 25 Ministries Inc reported 2 itemized grants totaling $70,000, out of $295,207,972 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2022.
What does Matthew 25 Ministries Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (89%), Education (8%), Food & Nutrition (1%).
Who are Matthew 25 Ministries Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Bread of Life Inc ($100k), Beth-El Farm Worker Ministry ($65k), The James Clinic ($50k).
Does Matthew 25 Ministries Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Matthew 25 Ministries Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater Cincinnati, John a Schroth Family Char Tr, Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation.
Where is Matthew 25 Ministries Inc based?
Matthew 25 Ministries Inc is based in OH.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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