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The Mateya Wildlife 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.

$42k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2022
100%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2025
$21,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$21,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 1
FY2021 to FY2022
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$3.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 100% of the organizations The Mateya Wildlife Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving2$42k50%
FY20221$5k100%
FY20211$10kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Animals$57k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Find your warmest path to The Mateya Wildlife 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.

About The Mateya Wildlife Foundation

How much does The Mateya Wildlife Foundation give?
The Mateya Wildlife Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $42,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2022.
What does The Mateya Wildlife Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (100%).
Who are The Mateya Wildlife Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc ($31k), The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust USA Inc ($21k), Atlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc ($5k).
Does The Mateya Wildlife Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Mateya Wildlife 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.
Where is The Mateya Wildlife Foundation based?
The Mateya Wildlife Foundation is based in GA.

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 3 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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