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Mattis Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$280k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Education$935kArts & Culture$140kFood & Nutrition$100kHuman Services$90kCivil Rights$40kYouth Development$27kEnvironment$20kReligion$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $230k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$100,000
EAGLE HILL SCHOOL$80,000
KRIPALU CENTER FOR YOGA & HEALTH$50,000
BURNING MAN PROJECT$20,000
GREENWICH LIBRARY$10,000
NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR$10,000
BRUCE MUSEUM$5,000
GREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%KRIPALU CENTER FOR YOGA & HEALTH: $50k → 12%KRIPALU CENTER FOR YOGA & HEALTH: $10k → 12%KRIPALU CENTER FOR YOGA & HEALTH: $10k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 13 repeat orgs$200k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
14

Total granted

$1.2M
$200k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
-3%

Still filing today

77%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • GC
    GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $385k · revenue +78%
  • IM
    INDIAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $145k · revenue +54%
  • KC
    KRIPALU CENTER FOR YOGA & HEALTH
    3× · 2023–2025 · $70k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • MF
    M4BL FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
3
Buckley Country Day School

The school's mission is grounded in the belief expressed by b. lord buckley that opening the eyes and awakening the mind is the essence of education. guided by that mission for almost a century, buckley has purposely focused on developing…

Education
4
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
5
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

6
Greenwich Academy Inc

Greenwich academy is an independent college-preparatory day school for girls and young women that seeks to foster excellence. for more information see schedule o.its mission is to provide a challenging, comprehensive educational experience…

Education
7
Boston Architectural College

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

8
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
9
Florence Griswold Museum Inc

The florence griswold museum seeks to promote a greater understanding of connecticut's contribution to american art and history through public exhibitions and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
10
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
11
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
12
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighbor to Neighbor Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Freecycle Network. 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

19 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
9/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC — $385,000 · EducationGREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INCINDIAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC — $145,000 · EducationINDIAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INCTHE GREENWICH LIBRARY — $65,000 · EducationTHE GREENWICH LIBRARYThe Peddie School — $40,000 · EducationThe Peddie School+1 more — $5,000 · EducationEAGLE HILL SCHOOL — $230,000 · OtherEAGLE HILL SCHOOLNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC — $100,000 · OtherNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INCUC BERKLEY FOUNDATION — $45,000 · OtherUC BERKLEY FOUNDATIONKRIPALU CENTER FOR YOUTH — $27,000 · OtherKRIPALU CENTER FOR YOUTHIndividual grant recipient — $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $20,000 · OtherM4BL FUND — $20,000 · OtherNAACP LEGAL DEFENCE FUND — $20,000 · Other+1 more — $10,000 · OtherKRIPALU CENTER FOR YOGA & HEALTH — $70,000 · Human ServicesGIVEDIRECTLY INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesBURNING MAN PROJECT — $60,000 · Community ImprovementNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $15,000 · Arts & CultureBRUCE MUSEUM INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureGREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $15,000 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLICA INC — $10,000 · Arts & CulturePLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC — $20,000 · EnvironmentThe Freecycle Network — $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE GREENWICH LAND TRUST INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentAll Star Code Inc — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentBERKELEY CHESS SCHOOL — $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$640,000Other$492,000Human Services$90,000Community Improvement$60,000Arts & Culture$60,000Environment$40,000Youth Development$20,000Recreation & Sports$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC — $385,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetINDIAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC — $145,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC — $100,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetKRIPALU CENTER FOR YOGA & HEALTH — $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREENWICH LIBRARY — $65,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetBURNING MAN PROJECT — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Peddie School — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAll Star Code Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRUCE MUSEUM INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Freecycle Network — $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREENWICH LAND TRUST INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBERKELEY CHESS SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMART KIDS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY14.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Mattis 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Bruce Museum Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Mattis Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Mattis Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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