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The Edward E & Marie L Matthews Foundation at a glance

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The Edward E & Marie L Matthews Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$891k
Granted FY2024still arriving
56
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$2.5MArts & Culture$820kHealth$736kRecreation & Sports$219kFood & Nutrition$189kHuman Services$158kPublic Safety & Disaster$106kCrime & Legal$35kOther$0
02FY2024 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k38 grants · $124k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $260k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $507k
$5,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EVANSTON NORTHWESTERN HEALTHCARE$125,000
MCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY$102,000
NORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$80,000
PRINCETON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC$50,000
THE YWCA OF PRINCETON INC$50,000
WELLS COLLEGE$50,000
GILL ST BERNARDS SCHOOL$50,000
CALIFORNIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$40,000
PACIFIC BATTLESHIP CENTER$40,000
RUMSEY HALL SCHOOL INCORPORATED$35,000
PRINCETON FIRST AID AND RESCUE SQUAD INC$30,000
WEST COAST SPORTS MEDICINE FOUNDATION$30,000
FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC$20,000
BERLIN AIRLIFT HISTORICAL FOUNDATION$20,000
FOUNDATION FOR MORRISTOWN MEDICAL CENTER$12,500
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 (FY19–24, $268k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SPECIAL OPS SURVIVORS: $3k → 11%A ROSE IN HASTE INC: $500 → 9%SPECIAL OPS SURVIVORS: $1k → 11%CENTER FOR PURSUIT: $2k → 16%THE YWCA OF PRINCETON INC: $100k → 11%CHILD RESCUE COALITION INC: $1k → 11%TRINITY COUNSELING SERVICE: $50k → 11%WOMENSAFE INC: $100 → 9%THE YWCA OF PRINCETON INC: $50k → 11%TRINITY COUNSELING SERVICE: $50k → 11%THE CENTER AT 353 INC: $10k → 11%TRINITY COUNSELING SERVICE: $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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
ID
IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
TN
SC
DC
TX
FL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.5M · 57 repeat orgs$315k to everyone else

57 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
32

Total granted

$4.5M
$152k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+29%

Still filing today

84%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $163k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TG
    THE GILL ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL
    6× · 2019–2024 · $401k · revenue +12%
  • MCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $257k · revenue +20%
  • Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $250k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • TA
    Texas A&M Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $37k · revenue +74%
  • LR
    LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -14%
  • PRINCETON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -6%
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
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
6
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
8
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
11
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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12
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Princeton Day School Inc; the most unlike its peers is Nassau Cooperative Nursery School. 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

96 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. 96 of the 109 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
94/96
Grantees still filing
61/96
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE GILL ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL: $401,000 · EducationTHE GILL ST BERNARD'S SCHOOLWELLS COLLEGE: $350,000 · EducationWELLS COLLEGERUMSEY HALL SCHOOL INC: $164,000 · EducationRUMSEY HALL SCHOOL INCUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $135,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKEL…CALIFORNIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $110,500 · EducationCALIFORNIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $65,500 · Education+16 more: $142,600 · Education+16 moreNORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $800,000 · OtherNORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLTRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITYEVANSTON NORTHWESTERN HEALTHCARE: $125,000 · OtherEVANSTON NORTHWESTERN HEALTHCAREFORMAN SCHOOL INC: $57,000 · Other+42 more: $288,250 · Other+42 moreMCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY: $257,000 · Arts & CultureMCCARTER THEATRE CO…Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc: $250,000 · Arts & CulturePrinceton Symphony …PACIFIC BATTLESHIP CENTER: $150,000 · Arts & CulturePACIFIC BATTLESHIP …BERLIN AIRLIFT HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $74,000 · Arts & CultureBERLIN AIRLIFT HIST…AERONAUTICAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $55,000 · Arts & CultureAERONAUTICAL EDUCAT…+4 more: $31,550 · Arts & CulturePRINCETON FIRST AID AND RESCUE SQUAD: $295,000 · HealthPRINCETON FIRST…WEST COAST SPORTS MEDICINE FOUNDATION: $180,000 · HealthWEST COAST SPOR…Foundation for Morristown Medical Center: $52,500 · HealthFoundation for …The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc: $30,000 · HealthLYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Health+11 more: $95,500 · Health+11 moreTHE YWCA PRINCETON INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesCENTER AT 353 INC: $111,000 · Human Services+7 more: $14,100 · Human ServicesFOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC: $185,000 · Food & Nutrition+3 more: $4,000 · Food & NutritionRalston Engine Company No 1: $62,500 · Public Safety & DisasterMENDHAM FIRST AID SQUAD INC: $5,000 · Public Safety & Disaster+1 more: $1,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Education$1,368,600Other$1,470,250Arts & Culture$817,550Health$678,000Human Services$275,100Food & Nutrition$189,000Public Safety & Disaster$68,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $800,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTHE GILL ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL: $401,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetWELLS COLLEGE: $350,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPRINCETON FIRST AID AND RESCUE SQUAD: $295,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetMCCARTER THEATRE COMPANY: $257,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetPrinceton Symphony Orchestra Inc: $250,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetFOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC: $185,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetWEST COAST SPORTS MEDICINE FOUNDATION: $180,000 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetRUMSEY HALL SCHOOL INC: $164,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE YWCA PRINCETON INC: $150,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetPACIFIC BATTLESHIP CENTER: $150,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $135,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER AT 353 INC: $111,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $110,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBERLIN AIRLIFT HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $74,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $65,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRalston Engine Company No 1: $62,500 over 5y, 32% of budgetFORMAN SCHOOL INC: $57,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAERONAUTICAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 5y, 56% of budgetFoundation for Morristown Medical Center: $52,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $37,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRANKLIN ACADEMY INC: $37,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP DUDLEY INC: $33,250 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMENDHAM TOWNSHIP FIRST AID SQUAD INC: $25,000 over 5y, 7.7% of budgetLYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBeyond The Burn Foundation: $24,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetWood River Community Young Men's Christian Association Inc: $23,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAUSABLE CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $22,800 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetPRINCETON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE EXPLORERS CLUB: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBEACON COLLEGE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOLIDARITY BRIDGE INC: $14,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $12,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S DAY SCHOOL INC: $11,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CAMPING FOUNDATION INC: $11,400 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL DENTAL STAFF OF MORRISTOWN MEM HOSPITAL: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION: $9,200 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSTEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LEARNING PROJECT: $7,600 over 5y, 31% of budgetMOTHERS2MOTHERS UNITED STATES INC: $7,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetABILIS INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL CLUB OF NY INC: $6,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHE HUB HOUSTON INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA GUARDIAN AD LITEM FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

Bristol-Myers Squibb …The Goldman Sachs Cha…Curtis W McGraw Found…The Starr FoundationPrinceton Area Commun…The Griffin-Cole FundThe Snyder Family FundThe Ayco Charitable F…The Robert Wood Johns…Runestone Family Foun…Educational Ventures …Honey Perkins Family …
Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation IncNJ23× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Curtis W McGraw Foundation · The Starr Foundation · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · The Griffin-Cole Fund · The Snyder Family Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Runestone Family Foundation · Educational Ventures Inc · Honey Perkins Family Foundation Inc

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 Edward E & Marie L Matthews Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Edward E & Marie L Matthews Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 230%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Atria Collective Inc: 96% of income from government
  • Abilis Inc: 74% of income from government
  • Child Rescue Coalition Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Steep Rock Association Inc: 19% of income from government
  • D&r Greenway Land Trust Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • Beacon College Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Silver Hill Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
23get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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.
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How do I get to The Edward E & Marie L Matthews Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Edward E & Marie L Matthews Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 109 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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