· Private foundation
The Matt & Lori Spahn 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PAUL TRIPP MINISTRIES INC | $20,203 |
| ASSEMBLIES OF GOD | $2,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,080 |
| CRU | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 63% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE4× · 2017–2024 · $74k · revenue +106%
- PTPAUL TRIPP MINISTRIES INC3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +44%
- NBNEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +265%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF NRA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $4k
- VRVISION RESCUEone grant, 2023 · $2k
- YLYOUNG LIFEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +62%
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.
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.
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.
To proclaim to the world the everlasting gospel of revelation 14:6-12 and to encourage revival in the remnant church by leading people to embrace salvation by faith in jesus, to establish them in the church, and to disciple all believers…
This church will be that place of emergency where people can come any time of day or night. We will be a place that will lead people back to health both spiritually and naturally.
Empowering everyday leaders with courage, tools and hope to ignite a revival of christian leadership.
To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.
To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades
To transform the lives of prisoners, their families, and victims through a global network of ministry partners.
Our desire is to provide balanced, biblical direction to the child as a support to the home and to train each student to be self-disciplined and biblically directed in their walk with god and their fellow man. it is also our desire to meet…
Jubal band ministries mission is to invite people to become disciples of christian life with jesus.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 22 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds PAUL TRIPP MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BRAUNFELS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Crisis Pregnancy Center of New Braunfels ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds PTSD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hope for Life Ministry ↗
- Who funds BOB TEBOW EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Matt & Lori Spahn Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Matt & Lori Spahn Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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