· Private foundation
Matthews Family Foundation Graham W Matthews
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CENTER | $10,500 |
| HARRY TOMPSON CENTER | $10,500 |
| THE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER | $10,500 |
| WOMEN'S LAW PROJECT | $10,500 |
| FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES INC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,800 |
| FAMILY SERVICES SAN ANTONIO | $7,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HARBOR | $4,667 |
| CHILDREN'S OF ALABAMA FOUNDATION | $4,667 |
| HAND IN PAW | $4,666 |
| THE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA | $3,500 |
| ALABAMA INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF AND BLIND FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CHILDREN'S BEHAVIORAL HEALTH IRELAND CENTER | $3,500 |
| TRANSFORMATION MINISTRIES | $3,500 |
| OASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN | $3,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $104k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 90% 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.
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 +48% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
THE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +48%- PPPlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +3%
- WLWOMEN'S LAW PROJECT7× · 2019–2025 · $32k · revenue +55%
Funded once
MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +227%- ABARISE BIRMINGHAM VISION LIGHTHOUSEone grant, 2017 · $5k
- TBTHE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +14%
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.
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
We protect consumers of behavior analysis services by systematically establishing, promoting, and disseminating professional standards.
Abilitypath housing advances affordable, accessible housing projects that promote independence and inclusive communities for adults with developmental disabilities. through partnerships and innovative program designs, abilitypath housing…
The mission of the baptist home of philadelphia is dedicated to providing quality continuing care living facilities and support services in a christian environment respecting the dignity and sanctity of all individuals regardless of their…
Empower people with special needs to achieve their full potential through innovative, inclusive programs and community partnerships.
Goodwill provides exceptional opportunities for people facing employment barriers.
Empowering families and individuals experiencing homelessness to build a future filled with dignity, opportunity, and lasting solutions.
To provide essential and next-step services to restore hope and help end homelessness in houston.
The arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.
Hmm health provides quality healthcare to all its neighbors with love, compassion, and respect.
Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.
Established in 2006, the banner alzheimer's foundation (baf) secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute (bai), including groundbreaking research initiatives and pioneering prevention…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Ability Inc and the most unlike its peers is Honeyword Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
63 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. 63 of the 100 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 ALABAMA INSTITUTE FOR DEAF & BLIND FOUND ↗
- Who funds THE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LAW PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood South Texas ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FURNITURE BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HAND IN PAW INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED ABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSFORMATION MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF TULIP ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM RAIN INC ↗
- Who funds HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds ALAMO HEIGHTS SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds MIGHTY WRITERS ↗
- Who funds GREATER PHILADELPHIA COALITION AGAINST HUNGER ↗
- Who funds SHARE FOOD PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds THE HARRY TOMPSON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ASSOC FOR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL ( ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEABILITY ↗
- Who funds MASON MUSIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THREE HOTS & A COT ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · C Eugene Ireland Foundation Inc · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Protective Life Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation · United Way of Central Alabama Inc · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Altecstyslinger 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 Graham W Matthews 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.
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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