· Private foundation
Stephen S and Anne E K Matter 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 you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL | $1,000 |
| MCLEAN COUNTY MUSEUM OF HISTORY | $1,000 |
| MCLEAN COUNTY ARTS CENTER | $1,000 |
| LIFELONG ACCESS | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
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.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- MCMCLEAN COUNTY ARTS CENTER8× · 2018–2025 · $12k · revenue +84%
- TOTOWN OF NORMAL CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +204%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL5× · 2021–2025 · $8k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- HSHOME SWEET HOME MINISTRIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +53%
- MFMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFPgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +38%
- CPCHILD PROTECTION NETWORKone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +4%
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.
The operation of a children's museum.
To support and serve our members, the mclean county chamber of commerce strives to promote commerce, advocate pro-business prospectives, collaborate to lead change, and engage in action for results that strengthen the prosperity of the…
The center's mission is to assist persons in mclean county who are in need of behavioral health services.
To improve the economic well-being of agriculture and enrich the quality of farm family life in mclean county.
Provide quality health care to mclean county's medically underserved residents through the operation of a free medical clinic.
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
To assist children who have been victims of abuse
To support residents of northern champaign county by providing services dedicated to improving their social conditions and ensuring access to the resources they need.
Children's law center believes every child should grow up with a strong foundation of family, health and education and live in a world free from poverty, trauma, racism, and other forms of oppression. our more than 100 staff together with…
Provide an interactive learning environment for children to foster imagination and creativity while inspiring life-long learning
Provide Counselors in Child Abuse Situations
To further the education of healthcare providers in the neurosciences, provide community education with an emphasis on public awareness of neurological disorders, and support and conduct clinical and pre-clinical research in the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mclean County Historical Society and the most unlike its peers is Child Protection Network. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 14 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 MCLEAN COUNTY ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds TOWN OF NORMAL CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL ↗
- Who funds MCLEAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOME SWEET HOME MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP ↗
- Who funds LIFELONG ACCESS ↗
- Who funds CHILD PROTECTION NETWORK ↗
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: Parker Kemp Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Illinois Prairie Community Foundation Inc · The Growmark Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Snyder Family Foundation Nfp · Russell and Betty Shirk Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · 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 Stephen S and Anne E K Matter 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 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.