Which funders back the same organizations as The Cynthia Parker Matthews Family Found Fka Matthews Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Akron Community Foundation, Burton D Morgan Foundation Inc, Edward Jones Foundation.

The Cynthia Parker Matthews Family Found Fka Matthews Family Foundation

The Cynthia Parker Matthews Family Found Fka Matthews Family Foundation at a glance

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The Cynthia Parker Matthews Family Found Fka Matthews Family Foundation

Q: What does The Cynthia Parker Matthews Family Found Fka Matthews Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (31%), Animals (26%), Religion (15%).

Q: Who are The Cynthia Parker Matthews Family Found Fka Matthews Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Akron Children's Hospital Foundation ($2.7M), Humane Society of Summit County ($2.0M), Shedd Aquarium Society ($1.2M).

Q: Does The Cynthia Parker Matthews Family Found Fka Matthews Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Q: Does The Cynthia Parker Matthews Family Found Fka Matthews Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

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.

$2.1M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$500k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$3.8MAnimals$3.2MReligion$1.9MCrime & Legal$940kHuman Services$865kArts & Culture$706kPhilanthropy$250kEducation$170kOther$0

02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k2 grants · $50k
$50k–250k9 grants · $899k
$250k+3 grants · $1.2M

$100,000

Median grant

States reached

$32M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION	$500,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY	$400,000
SHEDD AQUARIUM	$300,000
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS OF FORENSIC NURSES FOUNDATION	$200,000
RAINN	$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

02The need

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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$12M · 17 repeat orgs$552k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$12M

$252k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%

+21%

Still filing today

82%

63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthAnimalsPhilanthropyArts & CultureEducationOther

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

AC
AKRON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +66%
HS
HUMANE SOCIETY OF SUMMIT COUNTY
9× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +163%
SA
SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY
4× · 2022–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +7%

Funded once

WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue +64%
AR
AKRON-CANTON REGIONAL FOODBANK
one grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +1%
SH
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK
one grant, 2020 · $30k

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.

Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

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…

Food & Nutrition

Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health

Union Hospital Inc

We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.

Health

Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement

Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition

Toledo Northwestern Ohio Food Bank

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.

Food & Nutrition

Animal Care Sanctuary

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…

Animals

Columbus Humane

To fight animal cruelty, help animals in need and advocate for their well-being.

Animals

Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce

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.

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Cleveland Rape Crisis Center

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.

Health

Greater Cleveland Volunteers

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…

Philanthropy

The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 36 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

25/25

Grantees still filing

16/25

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Health$4,011,000Animals$3,230,000Other$2,957,000Philanthropy$1,024,000Arts & Culture$691,000Human Services$240,000Education$170,000

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.

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.

Akron Community FoundationOH17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Cynthia Parker Matthews Family Found Fka Matthews Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cynthia Parker Matthews Family Found Fka Matthews Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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.

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