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Matthew 2540 Foundation at a glance

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Matthew 2540 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.

$292k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$153k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$662kInternational$452kCivil Rights$30kRecreation & Sports$13kYouth Development$4kEducation$2kFood & Nutrition$1kHuman Services$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $258k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$38k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Fellowship Bible Church$152,570
Cure International$105,053
CRU$12,379
Child Parental Rights Campaign$10,438
Taylor County Holiness Campground$5,000
Evangelism Explosion Int'l$2,400
A Millis$1,976
Intervarsity Christian Fellowship$1,200
Wiphan Care Ministries$936
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%KLOVE Air1 Foundation: $1k → 6%CRU: $15k → 13%Cure International: $50k → 8%Cure International: $105k → 11%Convoy of Hope: $1k → 15%Intervarsity Christian Fellowship: $1k → 10%Evangelism Explosion Int'l: $2k → 12%Child Parental Rights Campaign: $10k → 9%RZIM: $5k → 13%Middle East Bible Outreach: $3k → 14%Vision Atlanta dba Camp Grace: $4k → 17%Taylor County Holiness Campground: $5k → 23%CRU: $14k → 13%Cure International: $83k → 11%Intervarsity Christian Fellowship: $1k → 10%Evangelism Explosion Int'l: $2k → 12%East Cobb Presbyterian Church: $2k → 8%Child Parental Rights Campaign: $10k → 9%Fellowship Bible Church: $153k → 13%Taylor County Holiness Campground: $4k → 23%CRU: $14k → 13%Cure International: $78k → 11%Intervarsity Christian Fellowship: $1k → 10%Evangelism Explosion Int'l: $2k → 12%East Cobb Christian School: $2k → 8%Child Parental Rights Campaign: $5k → 9%Fellowship Bible Church: $100k → 13%Taylor County Holiness Campground: $3k → 23%CRU: $12k → 13%Cure International: $70k → 11%Intervarsity Christian Fellowship: $1k → 10%Child Parental Rights Campaign Inc: $3k → 9%Fellowship Bible Church: $91k → 13%Campus Crusade for Christ: $10k → 13%Cure International: $61k → 11%Intervarsity Christian Fellowship: $1k → 10%Child Parental Rights Campaign: $3k → 9%Fellowship Bible Church: $80k → 13%CRU: $9k → 13%Intervarsity Christian Fellowship: $1k → 10%Fellowship Bible Church: $70k → 13%Fellowship Bible Church: $63k → 13%A Millis: $2k → 13%Wiphan Care Ministries: $957 → 13%Wiphan Care Ministries: $936 → 13%Wiphan Care Ministries: $936 → 13%Wiphan Care Ministries: $936 → 13%Wiphan Care Ministries: $936 → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
MI
CA
MO
TN
NC
MS
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 11 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
11

Total granted

$1.1M
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+9%

Still filing today

45%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalCrime & LegalReligionEducationFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CP
    CHILD & PARENTAL RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +235%
  • WC
    WIPHAN CARE MINISTRIES INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +4%
  • FT
    FEEDING THE ORPHANS INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $96 · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • CC
    Campus Crusade for Christ
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • RZ
    RAVI ZACHARIAS INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • VA
    Vision Atlanta Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +22%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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2
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
3
Christian World Outreach

Providing responsible evangelism, leadership, development, and humanitarian assistance.

Employment
4
Gospel Outreach

To fund national bible workers in impoverished or neglected nations of the 10/40 region of earth. in addition, builiding churches, literacy training, video productions, and community health education.

Religion
5
Worldserve Ministries

To advance the gospel in closed and hard-to-reach nations and to impact those nations for christ.

International
6
Kingdom Global Ministries

Christian services including missions efforts, humanitarian aide, mentoring/discipleship, establishment and covering of churches, licensing/ordaining ministers, pastoral support, all domestically and internationally.

Religion
7
CrossTalk Global

CrossTalk Global is a Christian educational organization that empowers and trains global church leaders to effectively communicate the Scriptures and share the hope of Christ in their communities. These projects are carried out in the USA…

Religion
8
What Matters Ministries and Missions

The organizations exempt purpose is to rescue orphans and widows, feed the poor, build the local church through ministry, crusades and outreaches and to win souls around the world.

Religion
9
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

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…

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10
Walk Thru the Bible Ministries Inc

Walk thru the bible (wtb) ignites passion for god's word. by developing a global network of influential pastors and leaders and then resourcing them with tools and training, wtb fulfills its role in the great commission.

Religion
11
Global Media Outreach

Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.

Religion
12
Vision Africa Ministries Inc

Vision africa is a god centetred ministry and mission organization whose purpose is to share gods love with the african people empowering africans to develop, staff, and manage life-saving, life changing

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope; the most unlike its peers is Middle East Bible Outreach. 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

13 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. 13 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FELLOWSHIP BIBLE CHURCH: $557,157 · OtherFELLOWSHIP BIBLE CHURCHCRU: $63,517 · OtherCRU+10 more: $46,269 · Other+10 moreCURE INTERNATIONAL INC: $446,357 · InternationalCURE INTERNATIONAL INC+3 more: $6,763 · InternationalCHILD & PARENTAL RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC: $30,438 · Crime & LegalVision Atlanta Inc: $4,320 · Crime & LegalInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA: $7,456 · ReligionGod's World Publications Inc: $1,000 · ReligionMIDDLE EAST BIBLE OUTREACH: $3,000 · EducationK-LOVE & AIR1 FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationJACKSON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $1,027 · Human ServicesMINISTRIES OF GRACE INC - GA: $50 · Food & Nutrition
Other$666,943International$453,120Crime & Legal$34,758Religion$8,456Education$4,000Human Services$1,027Food & Nutrition$50

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCURE INTERNATIONAL INC: $446,357 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCHILD & PARENTAL RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC: $30,438 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA: $7,456 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWIPHAN CARE MINISTRIES INC: $5,637 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVision Atlanta Inc: $4,320 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMIDDLE EAST BIBLE OUTREACH: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACKSON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $1,027 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetK-LOVE & AIR1 FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGod's World Publications Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP WESTMINSTER FOUNDATION INC: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING THE ORPHANS INC: $96 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMINISTRIES OF GRACE INC - GA: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds CURE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILD & PARENTAL RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC ↗
  • Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
  • Who funds WIPHAN CARE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Vision Atlanta Inc ↗
  • Who funds MIDDLE EAST BIBLE OUTREACH ↗
  • Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds JACKSON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds K-LOVE & AIR1 FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds God's World Publications Inc ↗
  • Who funds CAMP WESTMINSTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FEEDING THE ORPHANS INC ↗
  • Who funds MINISTRIES OF GRACE INC - GA ↗

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.

Natl Christian Charit…Verizon FoundationRaymond James Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA11.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Verizon Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Matthew 2540 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Matthew 2540 Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 24 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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