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Matthew 7 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.

$56k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2025
17
Organizations funded FY2024
71%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,200
Largest grant, FY2025
$13,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 17
FY2022 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$1.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 71% of the organizations Matthew 7 Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 74% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
HealthCrime & LegalReligionAnimalsHuman 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving17$56k18%
FY202417$28k71%
FY202310$12k70%
FY20225$4kn/a
88% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Religion$40kHealth$21kHousing & Shelter$14kHuman Services$8kRecreation & Sports$6kCrime & Legal$4kAnimals$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OH
DE
TN
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Cancer Society Inc$12,60530%
City Gospel Mission and Affiliates$9,50040%
Crossroads Community Church Inc$6,5002n/a
Jumpstart Ohio$3,50021%
JPT Movement Inc$3,50030%
St Joseph Home Inc$3,28720%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$2,10020%
Breakthrough T1d$1,01030%
Strategies to End Homelessness Inc$1,00010%
Impacting Tomorrow Incorporated$1,00010%
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All grantees of Matthew 7 Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Cancer Society Inc$12,60530%
City Gospel Mission and Affiliates$9,50040%
Crossroads Community Church Inc$6,5002n/a
Jumpstart Ohio$3,50021%
JPT Movement Inc$3,50030%
St Joseph Home Inc$3,28720%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$2,10020%
Breakthrough T1d$1,01030%
Strategies to End Homelessness Inc$1,00010%
Impacting Tomorrow Incorporated$1,00010%
Team Impact Inc$5201n/a
Bethesda Foundation Inc$50010%
Project K9 Hero$26510%
Santa Maria Community Services Inc$25910%
Hope House Christian Counseling Center$25010%
Halo Hearts Foundation$20811%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($54k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Matthew 7 Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $12,605 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCity Gospel Mission and Affiliates: $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJumpstart Ohio: $3,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetJPT Movement Inc: $3,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSt Joseph Home Inc: $3,287 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $2,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $1,010 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStrategies to End Homelessness Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetImpacting Tomorrow Incorporated: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBethesda Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject K9 Hero: $265 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Maria Community Services Inc: $259 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHope House Christian Counseling Center: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHalo Hearts Foundation: $208 over 1y, 0.7% 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 14.

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.

The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · 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 7 Foundation

How much does Matthew 7 Foundation give?
Matthew 7 Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $56,109 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 17 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
What does Matthew 7 Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (40%), Health (22%), Housing & Shelter (14%).
Who are Matthew 7 Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: American Cancer Society Inc ($13k), City Gospel Mission and Affiliates ($10k), Crossroads Community Church Inc ($7k).
Does Matthew 7 Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Matthew 7 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 7 Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Johnson Charitable Gift Fund, Charities Aid Foundation America.
Where is Matthew 7 Foundation based?
Matthew 7 Foundation 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 27 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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