· 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 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 · 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 |
| VINKA FUND | $6,500 |
| ST JOSEPH'S SENIOR HOME | $6,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB PATERSON | $5,000 |
| SAINT PIUS X CHURCH | $4,700 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +2% since the first grant, against -22% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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 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.
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 80 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Matthew 185 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Matthew 185 Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Bergen Performing Arts Center Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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