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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.

$128k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
26
Grants FY2025
30
Organizations funded FY2024
37%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,500
Organizations funded a year
28 to 34
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$1.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 37% of the organizations Matthews Family Foundation Graham W Matthews funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionCivil RightsHousing & ShelterEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving26$128k27%
FY202430$120k37%
FY202334$99k32%
FY202232$109k22%
FY202131$100k26%
FY202028$89k29%
FY201930$82k17%
FY201831$78k39%
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$259kHuman Services$170kReligion$73kFood & Nutrition$71kAnimals$63kHousing & Shelter$49kEducation$49kYouth Development$39kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MD
TN
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 65 grantees
All grantees of Matthews Family Foundation Graham W Matthews by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Alabama Institute for Deaf & Blind Found$48,26791%
The Attic Youth Center$32,50091%
Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc$32,33380%
Women's Law Project$32,00071%
Planned Parenthood South Texas$27,25060%
Planned Parenthood Southeast Inc$26,50060%
Family Violence Prevention Services Inc$26,33320%
Community Furniture Bank Inc$25,99151%
Hand in Paw Inc$25,46281%
United Ability Inc$25,12780%
St Marks Episcopal Church$17,2157n/a
Transformation Ministries$17,00052%
House of Tulip$16,70041%
Freedom Rain Inc$16,07250%
Heights Philadelphia$15,40070%
Alamo Heights School Foundation$14,36590%
Children's Harbor Inc$13,61230%
Mighty Writers$13,37570%
Greater Philadelphia Coalition Against Hunger$12,50040%
Share Food Program$12,30040%
The Harry Tompson Center Inc$10,50011%
Guiding Eyes for the Blind Inc$10,22530%
Children's Assoc for Maximum Potential ($9,84040%
National Disaster Search Dog Foundation$9,82040%
Women's Foundation of Alabama$9,69430%
Philabundance$9,50030%
Oasis Inc$9,1003n/a
Achieveability$8,00040%
Mason Music Foundation$7,40033%
Three Hots & a Cot$7,2803n/a
The Bell Center for Early Intervention Programs$6,53120%
Feeding Texas$5,82220%
Medical Debt Resolution Inc$5,00010%
The Bryn Mawr Hospital Foundation$5,00010%
Roy Maas' Youth Alternatives Inc$4,82210%
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life$4,82210%
Downtown Jimmie Hale Mission$4,76030%
First Light Inc$4,44420%
San Antonio Food Bank$4,00010%
Big Oak Ranch Inc$3,81510%
The Chest Foundation$3,80010%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$3,50010%
Beacon People$3,500214%
United Way of Central Alabama Inc$3,5001n/a
Collat Jewish Family Services of Birmingham$3,40610%
Magic City Acceptance Academy Charter Sc$3,12510%
Meals on Wheels San Antonio$3,00010%
Nationalities Service Center of Philadelphia$3,00020%
Camp Winnataska$3,00012%
Mission Road Ministries$2,75010%
First Presbyterian Church of San Antonio$2,7002n/a
Glenwood Inc$2,66610%
The Greater Birmingham Humane Society Inc$2,50010%
Better Basics Inc$2,50010%
Community Action Agency of Delaware County Inc$2,50010%
Conrad Smiles$2,0001n/a
The Lady Legacy Scholarship Foundation$2,00022%
Girls on the Run International Inc$1,50010%
Brightfocus Foundation$1,00010%
Honeyword Foundation Inc$1,00011%
Hands of Hope$1,00010%
Unbound Grace Ministeries$1,00010%
American Nicaraguan Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services$1,00010%
Farm for Hope Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($251k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Matthews Family Foundation Graham W Matthews supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAlabama Institute for Deaf & Blind Found: $48,267 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetThe Attic Youth Center: $32,500 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc: $32,333 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Law Project: $32,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetPlanned Parenthood South Texas: $27,250 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Southeast Inc: $26,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Violence Prevention Services Inc: $26,333 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Furniture Bank Inc: $25,991 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetHand in Paw Inc: $25,462 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetUnited Ability Inc: $25,127 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTransformation Ministries: $17,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetHouse of Tulip: $16,700 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetFreedom Rain Inc: $16,072 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHeights Philadelphia: $15,400 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAlamo Heights School Foundation: $14,365 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetChildren's Harbor Inc: $13,612 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMighty Writers: $13,375 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Philadelphia Coalition Against Hunger: $12,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetShare Food Program: $12,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Harry Tompson Center Inc: $10,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGuiding Eyes for the Blind Inc: $10,225 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Assoc for Maximum Potential (: $9,840 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNational Disaster Search Dog Foundation: $9,820 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Foundation of Alabama: $9,694 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPhilabundance: $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAchieveability: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMason Music Foundation: $7,400 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetThe Bell Center for Early Intervention Programs: $6,531 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFeeding Texas: $5,822 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMedical Debt Resolution Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bryn Mawr Hospital Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRoy Maas' Youth Alternatives Inc: $4,822 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life: $4,822 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDowntown Jimmie Hale Mission: $4,760 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFirst Light Inc: $4,444 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSan Antonio Food Bank: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Oak Ranch Inc: $3,815 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Chest Foundation: $3,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeacon People: $3,500 over 2y, 14% of budgetCollat Jewish Family Services of Birmingham: $3,406 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMagic City Acceptance Academy Charter Sc: $3,125 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMeals on Wheels San Antonio: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNationalities Service Center of Philadelphia: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Winnataska: $3,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMission Road Ministries: $2,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGlenwood Inc: $2,666 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Greater Birmingham Humane Society Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 59.

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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 Community Foundation of Greater BirminghamAL41.6× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Matthews Family Foundation Graham W Matthews

How much does Matthews Family Foundation Graham W Matthews give?
Matthews Family Foundation Graham W Matthews reported 26 grants totaling $127,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Matthews Family Foundation Graham W Matthews fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (29%), Human Services (19%), Religion (8%).
Who are Matthews Family Foundation Graham W Matthews's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Alabama Institute for Deaf & Blind Found ($48k), The Attic Youth Center ($33k), Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc ($32k).
Does Matthews Family Foundation Graham W Matthews fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Matthews Family Foundation Graham W Matthews accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Matthews Family Foundation Graham W Matthews?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, Alabama Power Foundation Inc.
Where is Matthews Family Foundation Graham W Matthews based?
Matthews Family Foundation Graham W Matthews is based in TX.

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 100 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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