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Matthew 2535 Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BE BETTER BE DIFFERENT LEGACY | $22,950 |
| TRANSFORM IRAN | $13,000 |
| BENBELLA BOOKS INC | $11,535 |
| PRESTON FORD FUND | $5,000 |
| DREAM CENTER | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| LEAPING FOR A CURE | $5,000 |
| NOAH'S ARK CHURCH - ARARAT ARMENIA | $4,500 |
| INTL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JE | $3,000 |
| JONI & FRIENDS | $3,000 |
| EMBRACE KIDS FOUNDATION | $2,575 |
| YOUNG ADULTS INSTITUTE | $2,551 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| BAYONNE YOUTH CENTER | $2,500 |
| CALVARY COMMUNITY CHURCH | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +81% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k 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
- 2M222 Ministries Inc6× · 2017–2022 · $105k · revenue -1% · 49% of their budget
- HPHOLLYWOOD POLICE SUPPORT ASSOC4× · 2018–2021 · $70k
- BBBe Better Be Different Legacy3× · 2022–2024 · $51k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- CACASH AWARDS AND GRANTSone grant, 2017 · $73k
- MHMALIBU-LOST HILLS SHERIFFS FNDone grant, 2021 · $10k
- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2022 · $10k
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 focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
The mission of Selah International Counseling Ministries is to glorify God as we serve and equip His church, providing leadership and service through counseling, counseling resources, and counseling training.
Interdenomination ministry dedicated to bringing youth into a growing relationship with jesus christ.
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
To teach individuals how to apply the wisdom and depth of the bible's grace-centered message to the problems of daily living; and through various means, work to restore chirst to counseling and christ-centered counseling to the church.
Our mission is to glorify god and serve our community by assisting people in finding freedom from their past, peace in their present, and hope for their future.
To provide accurate reporting on israel and current events based on god's written word and most importantly lead people to the saving knowledge of jesus christ.
To teach youth ministers and youth pastors at christian churches how to instruct or mentor christian youth on the value or religion and bring jesus christ into their lives as well as instructing youth how to be useful, responsible,…
Entrust's mission is to multiply church leaders through accessible, locally owned, reproducible training systems. this is accomplished through facilitated learning, assisting christians in gaining solid understanding of scripture, and…
The organization provides spiritual counsel, prayers and also facilitates charitable assistance through diplomats and leaders of the civil societies.
To provide support for the efforts of christians of the former soviet union in reaching the influencers of their countries for christ.
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tuesday's Children and the most unlike its peers is The India Pastors Project Inc. 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 25 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 21% of your grantees by number, and just 29% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 75 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 222 Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Be Better Be Different Legacy ↗
- Who funds JONI AND FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds TRANSFORM IRAN INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN HEALTH & LIVING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LEAPING FOR A CURE INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN HEART RANCH ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL HOPE NETWORK INTL INC ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN WITH CANCER AND BLOOD DISORDERS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG ADULT INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY 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.
Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 2535 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Elijahs Promise Inc — 1% of income from government
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.