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Matthew Neuenhaus Foundation at a glance

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Matthew Neuenhaus Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$1.0MEducation$310kRecreation & Sports$59kHealth$42kMembership Benefit$14kCommunity Improvement$9kYouth Development$5kEmployment$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$17,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE FAMILY GIVING FUND FOR CHANGE$1,027,993
BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY$17,500
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY$7,500
THE ROSE FOUNDATION OF HAITI$2,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE FAMILY CENTER: $1k → 20%SIENA HOUSE: $500 → 28%THE FAMILY CENTER: $1k → 20%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

NY
PA
NJ
CT
CO
VA
NC
OK
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.

23%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$342k · 17 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
29

Total granted

$342k
$132k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+59%

Still filing today

47%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalRecreation & SportsEmploymentOther
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

  • SR
    SADDLE RIVER DAY SCHOOL INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $132k · revenue +66%
  • Bucknell University
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +12%
  • VU
    VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2018–2024 · $18k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • Washington and Lee Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +58%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $21k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $12k
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
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
2
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
3
Dominican University New York

Promote educational excellence, leadership, & service via a strong commitment to our students.

—
4
Siena University

Siena university is a learning community advancing the ideals of a liberal arts education, rooted in its identity as a franciscan and catholic institution. as a learning community, siena is committed to a student-centered education…

Education
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Molloy University

Molloy university, an independent catholic university, rooted in the dominican tradition of study, spirituality, service, and community, is committed to academic excellence with respect for each person. through transformative education,…

Education
7
University of Mount Saint Vincent

Founded by the sisters of charity of new york, the university of mount saint vincent is an academically excellent, authentically inclusive, catholic and ecumenical liberal arts university. (cont. in sch.o)

Education
8
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
9
St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

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10
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
11
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
St John's University New York

St. john's university is a catholic, vincentian, metropolitan, and global institution of higher education (continued on schedule o).

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sacred Heart University Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Siena House Inc. 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

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 48 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
15/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE FAMILY GIVING FUND FOR CHANGE: $1,027,993 · OtherTHE FAMILY GIVING FUND FOR CHANGESADDLE RIVER DAY SCHOOL INC: $131,500 · OtherSADDLE RIVER DAY SCHOOL INCSADDLE RIVER LIONS CHARITY: $47,550 · Other+31 more: $189,176 · Other+31 moreWashington and Lee University: $25,000 · EducationBucknell University: $20,000 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $17,500 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $12,500 · EducationIONA UNIVERSITY: $12,500 · EducationMount Saint Mary College: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $2,500 · EducationSMILE FARMS INC: $5,000 · EmploymentCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $2,800 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $1,000 · HealthThe Rose Foundation of Haiti Inc: $2,500 · InternationalTHE FAMILY CENTER INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesSIENA HOUSE INC: $500 · Human ServicesUSA Basketball: $68 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,396,219Education$95,000Employment$5,000Health$3,800International$2,500Human Services$2,500Recreation & Sports$68

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 budgetSADDLE RIVER DAY SCHOOL INC: $131,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDRIBBLING AGAINST DRUGS INC: $35,028 over 3y, 100% of budgetWashington and Lee University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBucknell University: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIONA UNIVERSITY: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMount Saint Mary College: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE FARMS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $2,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Young Men's Christian Association of the Oranges Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Rose Foundation of Haiti Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 19% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAMILY CENTER INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIENA HOUSE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUSA Basketball: $68 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 SADDLE RIVER DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds DRIBBLING AGAINST DRUGS INC ↗
  • Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
  • Who funds Bucknell University ↗
  • Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds IONA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SETON HALL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Mount Saint Mary College ↗
  • Who funds SMILE FARMS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Metropolitan Young Men's Christian Association of the Oranges Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Rose Foundation of Haiti Inc ↗
  • Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds THE FAMILY CENTER INC ↗

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 Pfizer Foundation…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Pfizer Foundation IncNY12.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Neuenhaus Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Matthew Neuenhaus Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Metropolitan Young Men's Christian Association of the Oranges Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 1% of income from government
  • Seton Hall University: 1% of income from government
  • Saddle River Day School Inc: 0% of 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 · 0–75%
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 48 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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