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Matthews Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE JIMMY SIMPSON FOUNDATION | $49,143 |
| HOSPITALS FOR HUMANITY | $44,229 |
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL | $39,314 |
| DESTINY RESCUE INC | $39,314 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $30,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $30,000 |
| THE NAVIGATORS | $30,000 |
| SAFE HARBOR | $25,000 |
| COVENANT CARE SERVICES | $22,000 |
| SWAT MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| CLUB BEYOND MILITARY COMMUNITY YOUTH MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH & FAMILIES | $20,000 |
| LIVE 2540 | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION CO MEDIAL MISSIONS MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $136k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Matthews Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 56% of the giving stays in GA; read by stated purpose it is 53% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +77% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $193k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- UIUntold Inc4× · 2019–2023 · $230k · revenue +99%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE6× · 2019–2024 · $180k · revenue +151%
Mercy Ships International6× · 2019–2024 · $160k · revenue +170%
Funded once
- MPMt Paran Christian School Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +41%
- MPMIDWAY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $50k
- WRWE RAISE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $31k · revenue +17%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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.
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…
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
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…
Christian world-wide missions and ministries to see lives changed by the power and truth of Gods Word.
With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.
The organization exists to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ while providing support and serving the poor through benevolent assistance, medical services, education, orphan care, church planting, etc.
Childcare Worldwide (CW) transforms children's lives by exposing them to the gospel of Jesus Christ, providing for their physical needs, and sponsoring their education. We connect sponsors with children through Christ-based life centers.…
Mobilization of churches in America by taking pastors and laymen on vision and service trips overseas in fulfillment of Jesus command to go ye into all the world, making disciples...
We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ- centered care, training and social work.
Sozo International partners with at-risk families to create a sustainable future and transformed lives through education, health, and economic initiatives.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 62 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Untold Inc ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds NORTH COBB CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LIVE2540 INC ↗
- Who funds VSI ↗
- Who funds MILITARY COMMUNITY YOUTH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds STORY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Mt Paran Christian School Inc ↗
- Who funds THE JIMMY SIMPSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds S W A T MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FRONTLINE RESPONSE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds DWELL GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALS FOR HUMANITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COVENANT CARE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Ligonier Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP OZARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WE RAISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COBB PREGNANCY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Marietta Mentoring for Leadership Program ↗
- Who funds GILGAL INC ↗
- Who funds Ekisa Ministries International Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Cobb Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · The US Charitable Gift Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Matthews Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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