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Matthews Massachusetts Memorial

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$26k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0179% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$325kScience & Tech$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$5,275
Median grant
3
States reached
$992k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA$10,550
UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD$5,275
BENTLEY UNIVERSITY$5,275
WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY$5,275
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BOSTON COLLEGE: $4k → 7%COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $4k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASS AMHERST: $17k → 12%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $4k → 16%VASSAR COLLEGE: $4k → 9%COLGATE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 11%SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%Rochester Institute of Technology: $24k → 14%University of Tampa: $20k → 13%WESTERN CONNECICUT STATE: $3k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $18k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $3k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND: $3k → 7%MOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $3k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FDN INC: $7k → 9%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $5k → 10%BOSTON COLLEGE: $4k → 7%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $4k → 8%COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $3k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASS AMHERST: $12k → 12%WESTERN NEW ENGLAND: $19k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA: $11k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $15k → 11%PROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $8k → 14%BOSTON COLLEGE: $3k → 7%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $3k → 8%WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC: $12k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASS AMHERST: $12k → 12%WESTERN NEW ENGLAND: $17k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $4k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $5k → 11%PROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $4k → 14%WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC: $8k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASS AMHERST: $8k → 12%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $4k → 16%WESTERN NEW ENGLAND: $15k → 17%BENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $10k → 8%WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC: $6k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASS AMHERST: $8k → 12%WESTERN NEW ENGLAND: $7k → 17%BENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MASS AMHERST: $6k → 12%WESTERN NEW ENGLAND: $7k → 17%BENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $3k → 8%WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY: $5k → 17%WESTERN NEW ENGLAND: $4k → 17%BAY PATH UNIVERSITY: $5k → 17%SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE: $4k → 17%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

VT
NH
NY
MA
CT
RI
VA
GA
FL
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$340k · 15 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
24

Total granted

$340k
$90k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+28%

Still filing today

67%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD
    3× · 2023–2025 · $38k · revenue +14%
  • TU
    The University of Tampa Incorporated
    2× · 2024–2025 · $31k · revenue +10%
  • BENTLEY UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • Rochester Institute of Technology
    one grant, 2023 · $24k · revenue +13%
  • UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue -15%
  • BP
    Bay Path Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +41%
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
8
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
9
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
10
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
11
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
12
Fairfield University

To establish, organize, maintain and conduct an institution for secondary, undergraduate and graduate education in the state of connecticut, and to perform such other works of education, charity and religion. see schedule o.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University; the most unlike its peers is Siena University. 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

29 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. 29 of the 43 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
24/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $38,475 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORDThe University of Tampa Incorporated: $30,550 · EducationThe University of Tampa IncorporatedRochester Institute of Technology: $24,100 · EducationRochester Institute of TechnologyBENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $20,275 · EducationBENTLEY UNIVERSITYCHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED: $19,000 · EducationCHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATEDPROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $13,500 · EducationPROVIDENCE COLLEGETRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $13,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGEPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $11,000 · Education+18 more: $67,275 · Education+18 moreIndividual grant recipient: $73,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIVERSITY OF MASS AMHERST: $65,600 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASS AMHERSTIndividual grant recipient: $28,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $9,000 · Other+13 more: $40,500 · Other+13 more
Education$237,175Other$216,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $38,475 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Tampa Incorporated: $30,550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $24,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $20,275 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED: $19,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY: $5,275 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBay Path University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPRINGFIELD COLLEGE: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRYANT UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMERSON COLLEGE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBECKER COLLEGE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUFFOLK UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIENA UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Emily F Gill Tua-Chas…Davis Educational Fou…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Emily F Gill Tua-Chas Abbey SchTX13.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Emily F Gill Tua-Chas Abbey Sch · Davis Educational Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Matthews Massachusetts Memorial funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Matthews Massachusetts Memorial. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 5% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 4% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 2% of income from government
  • Bay Path University: 1% of income from government
  • University of Hartford: 1% of income from government
  • Suffolk University: 1% of income from government
  • Assumption University: 1% of income from government
  • Western New England University: 0% of income from government
  • Champlain College Incorporated: 0% of income from government
  • Springfield College: 0% of income from government
  • Emerson College: 0% of income from government
  • The University of Tampa Incorporated: 0% of income from government
  • Bentley University: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 43 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home