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Stephen S and Anne E K Matter Foundation at a glance

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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.

$14k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$31kYouth Development$13kEducation$5kCrime & Legal$3kReligion$3kFood & Nutrition$2kHuman Services$2kHealth$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$155k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$5,000
CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM$5,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL$1,000
LIFELONG ACCESS$1,000
MCLEAN COUNTY MUSEUM OF HISTORY$1,000
MCLEAN COUNTY ARTS CENTER$1,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $2k → 11%LIFELONG ACCESS: $1k → 11%LIFELONG ACCESS: $1k → 11%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.
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$48k · 7 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
6

Total granted

$48k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+38%

Still filing today

71%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCrime & LegalEducationOther
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

  • MC
    MCLEAN COUNTY ARTS CENTER
    8× · 2018–2025 · $12k · revenue +84%
  • TO
    TOWN OF NORMAL CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +132%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL
    5× · 2021–2025 · $8k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • HS
    HOME SWEET HOME MINISTRIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +53%
  • MF
    MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFPgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +38%
  • CP
    CHILD PROTECTION NETWORK
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +4%
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
Children's Museum of Illinois

The operation of a children's museum.

Arts & Culture
2
Mclean Co Chamber of Commerce

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…

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3
Mclean County Center for Human Services Inc

The center's mission is to assist persons in mclean county who are in need of behavioral health services.

Human Services
4
Mclean County Farm Bureau

To improve the economic well-being of agriculture and enrich the quality of farm family life in mclean county.

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5
Community Health Care Clinic

Provide quality health care to mclean county's medically underserved residents through the operation of a free medical clinic.

Health
6
Lincoln Children's Museum

The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.

Arts & Culture
7
Childrens Advocacy Center of East Central Illinois

To assist children who have been victims of abuse

Crime & Legal
8
The Community Service Center of Northern Champaign County Inc

To support residents of northern champaign county by providing services dedicated to improving their social conditions and ensuring access to the resources they need.

Human Services
9
Children's Law Center Inc

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…

Crime & Legal
10
The Childrens Museum of Siouxland Inc

Provide an interactive learning environment for children to foster imagination and creativity while inspiring life-long learning

Arts & Culture
11
Child Advocacy Center of Mchenry Co Inc

Provide Counselors in Child Abuse Situations

Crime & Legal
12
Central Illinois Neuroscience Found

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mclean County Historical Society; 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.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MCLEAN COUNTY ARTS CENTER: $12,450 · Arts & CultureMCLEAN COUNTY ARTS CENTERTOWN OF NORMAL CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $12,000 · Arts & CultureTOWN OF NORMAL CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM FOUNDATIONMCLEAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $7,000 · Arts & CultureMCLEAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL: $7,500 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BLOOMINGTON-N…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $5,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBHOME SWEET HOME MINISTRIES INC: $2,500 · OtherHOME SWEET HOME MINISTRIES INCSAFE HARBOR: $2,000 · OtherSAFE HARBOR+3 more: $1,100 · Other+3 moreILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationILLINOIS …MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $2,000 · Human ServicesLIFELONG ACCESS: $2,000 · Human ServicesCHILD PROTECTION NETWORK: $1,000 · Crime & Legal
Arts & Culture$31,450Other$18,100Education$5,000Human Services$4,000Crime & Legal$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMCLEAN COUNTY ARTS CENTER: $12,450 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetTOWN OF NORMAL CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL: $7,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMCLEAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $7,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOME SWEET HOME MINISTRIES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFELONG ACCESS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD PROTECTION NETWORK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

Parker Kemp FoundationThe Ayco Charitable F…Illinois Prairie Comm…The Growmark Foundati…Commerce Bancshares F…Snyder Family Foundat…Russell and Betty Shi…Charities Aid Foundat…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Parker Kemp FoundationIL17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Stephen S and Anne E K Matter Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stephen S and Anne E K Matter Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 14 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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