· Private foundation
The Cynthia Parker Matthews Family Found Fka Matthews 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 you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $899k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY | $400,000 |
| SHEDD AQUARIUM | $300,000 |
| RAINN | $200,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS OF FORENSIC NURSES FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| GROUND FORCE HUMANITARIAN AID | $100,000 |
| PROVIDENCE HOUSE | $100,000 |
| RESOURCE | $75,000 |
| ENCORE CHAMBER MUSIC INSTITUTE | $62,000 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $60,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION OF INDIANAPOLIS | $52,000 |
| QUINCY QUEST FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CLEVELAND FOOD BANK | $40,000 |
| MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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, $155k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
17 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k 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
- ACAKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +66%
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +163%
- SASHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY4× · 2022–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +7%
Funded once
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue +46%- ARAKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANKone grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +1%
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANKone grant, 2020 · $30k
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.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The mission of the atlanta community food bank is to engage, educate and empower our community to fight hunger. our bold goal is to see that all people in our service area have access to the nutritious meals they need when they need them.
To enable other community organizations to end hunger. we strive to maximize community resources by effectively obtaining and distributing food through a food collection and distribution system.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
To fight animal cruelty, help animals in need and advocate for their well-being.
Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.
The cleveland rape crisis center is a non-profit organization which supports survivors of sexual violence, promotes healing and prevention, and advocates for social change.
Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Quincy's Quest Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
25 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. 25 of the 36 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 AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL VIOLIN COMPETITION OF INDIANAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds QUINCY'S QUEST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUDSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Community Resource Center Inc ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds ENCORE CHAMBER MUSIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CAJUN RELIEF FOUNDATION INC GAUDET ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COOPERATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Shepherds House of Portage County ↗
- Who funds EDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST GLANCE STUDENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HUMMINGBIRD PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BACK TO THE WILD INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
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: Akron Community Foundation · Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 The Cynthia Parker Matthews Family Found Fka Matthews 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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