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Matthew Six 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.

$110k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$59k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$486kCivil Rights$220kHuman Services$66kInternational$59kYouth Development$55kPublic Benefit$29kEducation$25kCrime & Legal$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $59k
$3,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ONE GLOBAL NETWORK$59,000
OPERATION MOBILIZATION USA$20,000
TURNING POINT USA$5,000
BRAVEHEART MINISTRIES$5,000
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM$5,000
PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$5,000
UPPER ROOM DALLAS$3,000
YOUNG LIFE$3,000
HOMEWORD$1,000
FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL$1,000
CHILD HOPE INTERNATIONAL$1,000
SHAREFEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT$1,000
RIVER CHURCH$1,000
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 (FY18–24, $193k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $3k → 14%ARANHA FOUNDATION: $40k → 9%ONE GLOBAL NETWORK: $59k → 13%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 14%ARANHA FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%ONE GLOBAL NETWORK: $50k → 13%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNSEL: $2k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $1k → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNSEL: $1k → 14%SHAREFEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $5k → 14%SHAREFEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $3k → 14%SHAREFEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $3k → 14%SHAREFEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $2k → 14%SHAREFEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $1k → 14%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

WA
NY
IA
CA
CO
MO
AZ
DC
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$855k · 24 repeat orgs$99k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +112% since the first grant, against +55% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
11

Total granted

$855k
$94k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+112%
+55%

Still filing today

58%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentInternationalReligionCivil RightsArts & CultureOther
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

  • OG
    ONE GLOBAL NETWORK INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $109k · revenue +204% · 78% of their budget
  • AF
    ARANHA FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $60k · revenue +14% · 73% of their budget
  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $41k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • WA
    WORLD ABLAZE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • MI
    MISSIONEER INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -50%
  • DL
    DEEPER LIFE MINISTRY
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
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
Asia Us Impact

Religious

Religion
2
International Impact Ministries in
Religion
3
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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4
Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…

Religion
5
Ambassadors for Christ International - Usa Inc

Ambassadors for Christ International - USA is a fellowship of gospel preachers and teachers whose mission is to preach Christ, edify the Church, and to glorify God and serve as a catalyst for revival, evangelism, and training of Christians…

Religion
6
Global Faith Network
Human Services
7
A Jesus Mission

A Jesus Mission creates unique opportunities for individuals or teams to serves as Christian missionaires around the world through traditional evangelism, discipleship training, and outreach.

Religion
8
More International Ministries

To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades

Religion
9
Awakening Ministries International

Proclaim the gospel worldwide, prepare followers of jesus christ, and propel those into their god given destiny.

Religion
10
Leadership Resources International

International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures

Religion
11
Evangelism Partners International
Religion
12
Explore God Network
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alliance Defending Freedom; the most unlike its peers is Pacific Legal 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

21 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. 21 of the 36 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OPERATION MOBILIZATION: $180,000 · OtherOPERATION MOBILIZATIONANTIOCH COMMUNITY CHURCH - FORT WORTH: $115,000 · OtherANTIOCH COMMUNITY CHURCH - FORT WORTHRIVER CHURCH: $74,800 · OtherRIVER CHURCHUPPER ROOM DALLAS: $34,000 · OtherUPPER ROOM DALLASIndividual grant recipient: $29,000 · OtherTURNING POINT USA INC: $25,000 · OtherPINE COVE INC: $25,000 · OtherCOAST CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP: $25,000 · OtherDEEPER LIFE MINISTRY: $20,000 · OtherChild Hope International: $24,000 · Other+9 more: $34,300 · Other+9 moreONE GLOBAL NETWORK INC: $109,000 · Human ServicesONE GLOBAL NETWORK INCARANHA FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesARANHA FOUNDATION INCSharefest Community Development Inc: $14,000 · Human ServicesSharefest Community Dev…+4 more: $13,500 · Human Services+4 moreYOUNG LIFE: $40,500 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOMEWORD: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $40,000 · Civil RightsMISSIONEER INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $10,000 · InternationalBraveheart Ministries Inc: $5,000 · InternationalWORLD ABLAZE INC: $25,000 · Religion+1 more: $300 · ReligionPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Education
Other$586,100Human Services$196,500Youth Development$46,000Civil Rights$40,000International$35,000Religion$25,300Education$25,000

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 budgetONE GLOBAL NETWORK INC: $109,000 over 2y, 78% of budgetARANHA FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 2y, 73% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $40,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChild Hope International: $24,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetMISSIONEER INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetSharefest Community Development Inc: $14,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNION RESCUE MISSION: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBraveheart Ministries Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JUSTICE FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEWORD: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAVING INNOCENCE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFATHERS TOUCH MINISTRIES INC: $300 over 1y, 0.2% 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 ONE GLOBAL NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds ARANHA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
  • Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
  • Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WORLD ABLAZE INC ↗
  • Who funds Child Hope International ↗
  • Who funds MISSIONEER INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Sharefest Community Development Inc ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds UNION RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds Braveheart Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds THE JUSTICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
  • Who funds HOMEWORD ↗
  • Who funds SAVING INNOCENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MERCIFUL ↗
  • Who funds FATHERS TOUCH MINISTRIES 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.

Christian Community F…Natl Christian Charit…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Christian Community Foundation IncCO12.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Six Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Matthew Six Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 36 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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    The endowment market
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    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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