· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Matthews Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 56% of the giving stays in GA; by stated purpose, 53%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against +41% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +136%
Funded once
- MPMIDWAY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $50k
- MPMt Paran Christian School Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +41%
- WRWE RAISE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $31k · revenue +17%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
39 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. 39 of the 62 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Matthews Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Matthews Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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