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Matthew 7 Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% 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
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
$1,200
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Lords Gym Ministries$13,000
American Cancer Society$9,605
Habitat for Humanity$7,000
Crossroads Community Church$6,000
Ronald McDonald House$4,000
St Joseph Home$3,034
JumpStart Ohio$3,000
City Gospel Mission$3,000
Individual grant recipient$1,200
St Jude Children's Research Hospital$1,200
Individual grant recipient$1,100
JPT Movement$1,100
Impacting Tomorrow Inc$1,000
ASPCA$600
Team Impact$520
02The need
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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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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Impacting Tomorrow Inc: $1k → 9%Strategies to end homelessness: $1k → 16%Santa Maria Community Services: $259 → 16%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

IL
NY
MA
OH
DE
TN
GA
TX
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$93k · 15 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
9

Total granted

$93k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
-2%

Still filing today

47%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalAnimalsReligionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • JO
    JUMPSTART OHIO
    2× · 2024–2025 · $4k · revenue +3%
  • JM
    JPT Movement Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $4k · revenue +8%
  • SJ
    ST JOSEPH HOME INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $3k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • ST
    Strategies to End Homelessness Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -2%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
  • DS
    Down Syndrome Association
    one grant, 2024 · $750
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
St Joseph's Hospital of Tampa Foundation Inc

St. joseph's hospitals foundation secures, manages and stewards philanthropic support to benefit the health care mission of st. joseph's hospital, st. joseph's women's hospital, st. joseph's children's hospital of tampa, st. joseph's…

Health
2
Saint Joseph's Health System Inc

We, saint joseph's health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. honoring the heritage and advancing the ministry of the sisters of…

Health
3
Transformation Health Network

Transformation health network seeks to bring healing to individuals, communities, and nations through establishing systems of healthcare that addresses the true nature of man as body, soul and spirit. we are developing models of 'whole…

Health
4
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
5
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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6
Saint Joseph's Mercy Care Services Inc

We, saint joseph's health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. honoring the heritage and advancing the ministry of the sisters of…

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7
St Joseph's Health At Home Inc

We, trinity home health services and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. st. joseph's health at home is a member of trinity home health…

Health
8
Blood Cancer United Inc

Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

Health
9
Trihealth Physician Institute

Provides the community necessary medical care through specialty physicians.

Health
10
The Joseph Project
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11
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
12
The Christ Hospital

Improve the health of our community and create patient value by providing exceptional outcomes and the finest experiences, all in an affordable way.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Team Impact Inc; the most unlike its peers is Halo Hearts Foundation. 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

15 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. 15 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
7/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Lords Gym Ministries: $20,000 · OtherLords Gym MinistriesHabitat for Humanity: $13,000 · OtherHabitat for HumanityCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES: $9,500 · OtherCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATESRonald McDonald House: $6,500 · OtherRonald McDonald HouseCROSSROADS COMMUNITY CHURCH INC: $6,500 · OtherCROSSROADS COMMUNITY CHURCH INCLords Gym: $5,600 · OtherLords GymST JOSEPH HOME INC: $3,287 · Other+7 more: $8,675 · Other+7 moreAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $12,605 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SO…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,100 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S…BREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,010 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D+3 more: $958 · Health+3 moreJUMPSTART OHIO: $3,500 · Crime & LegalJPT Movement Inc: $3,500 · ReligionStrategies to End Homelessness Inc: $1,000 · Human ServicesIMPACTING TOMORROW INCORPORATED: $1,000 · Human ServicesSANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $259 · Human ServicesTEAM IMPACT INC: $520 · PhilanthropyPROJECT K9 HERO: $265 · Animals
Other$73,062Health$16,673Crime & Legal$3,500Religion$3,500Human Services$2,259Philanthropy$520Animals$265

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

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
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.

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 Cincinnat…Johnson Charitable Gi…Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Matthew 7 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Matthew 7 Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–90%
    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 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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