· Private foundation
Robert E Mathews Family Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Chagrin Valley Hunter Jumper Classic | $6,500 |
| Old Bills Fun Run | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Fieldstone Farm | $1,000 |
| Ideastream Public Media | $1,000 |
| Greater Cleveland Food Bank | $1,000 |
| In Step With Horses | $1,000 |
| Cleveland Animal Protective League | $1,000 |
| Cleveland Museum of Natural History | $1,000 |
| Conservation Land Foundation | $1,000 |
| Earthjutice | $500 |
| Native Memory Project | $500 |
| Gates Mills Land Conservancy | $500 |
| Wyoming Chapter of the Sierra Club | $500 |
| OPHA | $500 |
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 (FY20–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +68% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CMCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY5× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +76%
- NMNATIVE MEMORY PROJECT4× · 2022–2025 · $6k · revenue +206%
- ISIN STEP WITH HORSESINC5× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +168%
Funded once
- CVCHAGRIN VALLEY PROFESSIONAL HORSEMEN'S ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k
- OIOCCK INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +16%
- HWHumane World for Animals Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +32%
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.
Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.
Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.
Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
Washington wild protects and restores wild lands and waters in washington state through advocacy, education and civic engagement.
Support ecosystem-based wildlife management by increasing public awareness of wildlife issues, responding to information requests, advocating for science-based wildlife habitat management through proposal and comment submissions, and…
Defenders of Wildlife is a national, nonprofit membership organization dedicated to the protection of all native animals and plants in their natural communities.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Icl's mission is to create a conservation community and pragmatic, enduring solutions that protect and restore the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the land and wildlife you love.
To promote science-based wildlife management that fosters ecosystem health and dynamic equilibrium between species throughout the state of wyoming.
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 49 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVE MEMORY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds IN STEP WITH HORSESINC ↗
- Who funds Gates Mills Land Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Global Impact ↗
- Who funds WKHR RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds OCCK INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds Conservation Lands Foundation ↗
- Who funds WYOMING OUTDOOR COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds WIND RIVER TRIBAL BUFFALO INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds CANINE LIFELINE INC ↗
- Who funds WILDERNESS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN WATERSHEDS PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds HONOR THE EARTH ↗
- Who funds IDEASTREAM ↗
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: Marin Community Foundation · The New-Land Foundation Inc · Patagoniaorg · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert E Mathews Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert E Mathews Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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