· Private foundation
The Matthew 185 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $84k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $102k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILY PROMISE OF BERGEN COUNTY | $23,800 |
| MULTIPLE SCEROSIS OF AMERICA | $23,500 |
| FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $16,000 |
| HACKENSACK MERIDAN SCHOOL | $13,500 |
| HOME FIT FOR HEROES | $13,000 |
| RAMAPO BERGEN ANIMAL REFUGE CENTER | $12,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,500 |
| TABLE TO TABLE | $7,500 |
| RIVERVALE FIRE DEPARTMENT ASSOCIATION | $7,261 |
| YOUTH COUNCIL SERVICES | $6,750 |
| ST JOSEPH'S SENIOR HOME | $6,500 |
| VINKA FUND | $6,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB PATERSON | $5,000 |
| SAINT PIUS X CHURCH | $4,700 |
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 (FY19–21, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +2% since the first grant, against -22% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- FPFAMILY PROMISE OF BERGEN COUNTY8× · 2017–2024 · $168k · revenue +87%
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY INC3× · 2017–2019 · $55k · revenue +11%
- TTTABLE TO TABLE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $41k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- HHHAMDEN HALL DAY SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $10k
- ALANN LIGOURI FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $9k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $7k
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.
The organization was formed for charitable purposes to provide appropriate care to terminally ill patients and services to their families who reside primarily in sussex and warren counties, new jersey and pike county, pennsylvania.
The physicians of virtua medical group (vmg) share a common philosophy in all they do: to create an outstanding experience for patients. in a broad range of specialties, from family medicine to surgery to oncology, vmg's highly-trained…
The foundation was established in 1995 to raise funds to find better treatments and cures for the movement disorders associated with dystonia and parkinson's disease and for medical research related to these diseases.
The organization receives and solicits donations from the public and other section 501(c)(3) organizations and distributes such funds to a related section 501(c)(3) organization which provides hospice and related care to members of the…
The organizations are committed to providing the full spectrum of life-enhancing care and services to create and sustain healthy, vibrant communities. please refer to schedule h, part vi, question 5 for the organization's community benefit…
To serve as the physician services component of a tax-exempt integrated healthcare delivery network & to thereby promote, support & further the charitable purposes, programs & services of hmh hospitals corp.
The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…
Our mission is to provide the highest-quality, state-of-the-art mental health and chemical dependency treatment in a warm, healing environment. our caring, compassionate team prepares our patients to return to their families and…
Visiting homemaker home health aide service of bergen county, inc. ("vhs") is a not-for-profit corporation created for the principal purpose of fostering adequate care for the chronically ill through the provision of homemaker services, to…
Mercy home provides essential services for children and adults with developmental disabilities. mercy home's mission is to ensure the quality of life for persons with developmental disabilities through the recognition of each person's…
The corporation will further the charitable and healthcare purposes of hackensack meridian health, inc. and its internal revenue code 501(c)(3) tax-exempt affiliates.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of New Jersey Inc and the most unlike its peers is Homes Fit for Heroes Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 80 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 FAMILY PROMISE OF BERGEN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HOMES FIT FOR HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds SEVERAL SOURCES SHELTERS INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds TABLE TO TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE JILLIAN FUND ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE VINCA FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MORGAN HOFFMANN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HACKENSACK MERIDIAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds PONY POWER THERAPIES INC ↗
- Who funds QSAC INC ↗
- Who funds SPECTRUM FOR LIVING CORPORATION ↗
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: Columbia Bank Foundation · Hackensack Meridian Health Inc-Subordinates · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Stephen M Dowicz Foundation · The Valley Hospital Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Matthew 185 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Bergen Performing Arts Center Inc — 2% 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.