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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.

$97k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
75%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$22,950
Organizations funded a year
8 to 20
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
9
Total assets, FY2024
$15k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 75% of the organizations Matthew 2535 Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 54% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsHealthPublic BenefitEducationOther
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 arriving19$97k74%
FY202312$51k75%
FY202220$98k90%
FY202110$71k50%
FY202016$73k69%
FY201910$58k40%
FY20188$56k50%
FY201710$110kn/a
88% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$233kCrime & Legal$80kHuman Services$55kRecreation & Sports$52kYouth Development$25kHealth$18kAnimals$9kPhilanthropy$8kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
IN
OH
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
NC
OK
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
222 Ministries Inc$104,500649%
Be Better Be Different Legacy$50,550318%
Joni and Friends$29,50070%
Calvary Temple Outreach Ministries Inc$15,3562n/a
Transform Iran Inc$13,00013%
Leaping for a Cure Inc$5,00016%
Samaritan Health & Living Center Inc$5,00010%
Tammi Terry Memorial Scholarship Inc$4,2502n/a
Golden Heart Ranch$4,00011%
Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny$4,0003n/a
Show all 26 grantees
All grantees of Matthew 2535 Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
222 Ministries Inc$104,500649%
Be Better Be Different Legacy$50,550318%
Joni and Friends$29,50070%
Calvary Temple Outreach Ministries Inc$15,3562n/a
Transform Iran Inc$13,00013%
Leaping for a Cure Inc$5,00016%
Samaritan Health & Living Center Inc$5,00010%
Tammi Terry Memorial Scholarship Inc$4,2502n/a
Golden Heart Ranch$4,00011%
Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny$4,0003n/a
Grateful 4 Foundation$3,5001n/a
Global Hope Network Intl Inc$3,00010%
International Fellowship of Christians & Jews Inc$3,00010%
The Institute for Children With Cancer and Blood Disorders Inc$2,57510%
Young Adult Institute Inc$2,55110%
Boys and Girls Club of Dane County Inc$2,50010%
Bayonne Youth Center$2,5001n/a
Veterans Freedom Retreat Inc$2,50012%
Elijahs Promise Inc$1,60010%
Bridges of Light Foundation Inc$1,00011%
Tuesday's Children$1,00010%
Sahq Backers$1,00011%
Young Caring for Our Young Inc$1,00010%
Union Rescue Mission$1,00010%
The India Pastors Project Inc$1,00011%
Reliant Ministries Inc$3001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 49 recipients with no EIN on record ($350k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Matthew 2535 Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budget222 Ministries Inc: $104,500 over 6y, 49% of budgetBe Better Be Different Legacy: $50,550 over 3y, 18% of budgetJoni and Friends: $29,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTransform Iran Inc: $13,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetLeaping for a Cure Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetSamaritan Health & Living Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGolden Heart Ranch: $4,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGlobal Hope Network Intl Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Fellowship of Christians & Jews Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Institute for Children With Cancer and Blood Disorders Inc: $2,575 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYoung Adult Institute Inc: $2,551 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Dane County Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVeterans Freedom Retreat Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetElijahs Promise Inc: $1,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBridges of Light Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTuesday's Children: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSahq Backers: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetYoung Caring for Our Young Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnion Rescue Mission: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe India Pastors Project Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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 20.

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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.

Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA8.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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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About Matthew 2535 Foundation

How much does Matthew 2535 Foundation give?
Matthew 2535 Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $97,211 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Matthew 2535 Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (38%), Crime & Legal (13%), Human Services (9%).
Who are Matthew 2535 Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: 222 Ministries Inc ($105k), Be Better Be Different Legacy ($51k), Joni and Friends ($30k).
Does Matthew 2535 Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Matthew 2535 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 Matthew 2535 Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charities Aid Foundation America, Network for Good, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
Where is Matthew 2535 Foundation based?
Matthew 2535 Foundation is based in CA.

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 75 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-PF 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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