· Private foundation
The Matthew 2534-40 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 $10k28 grants · $99k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $81k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNHCR | $20,971 |
| PORTER GAUD SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| ST PETER'S IN THE WOODS | $14,000 |
| STELLA MARIS | $11,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SCHACK ART CENTER (ARTS COUNCIL OF | $10,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $8,000 |
| WORLD VISION | $7,000 |
| EAST COOPER COMMUNITY OUTREACH | $6,500 |
| THE FORMATION PROJECT | $6,355 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SVS OF SNOHOMISH | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MERCY CORP | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 15% of The Matthew 2534-40 Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 21% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 12% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +68% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 13 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
- ECEast Cooper Community Outreach7× · 2017–2024 · $33k · revenue +209%
- PHPeoria Home6× · 2017–2022 · $22k · revenue +70%
- JBJust Be You4× · 2021–2024 · $19k · revenue +154% · 31% of their budget
Funded once
- VDVIRGINIA DIOCESAN HOMES INC - ST PETERS IN THE WOODSone grant, 2021 · $13k
- SPST PETER IN THE WOODSone grant, 2022 · $13k
- SPST PETER'S IN THE WOODS EPISCOPALone grant, 2020 · $11k
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.
To provide food to individuals in need with compassion, dignity and respect. No one needing assistance is turned away.
Samaritan House is committed to fostering personal safety, growth, and self-sufficiency in adults and their children through freedom from domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking and removing their risks of homelessness.
Reclaim is a community resource providing pathways to stability, opportunity & connection.
Shelter House's mission is to prevent and end homelessness and domestic violence by engaging the community, building effective relationships and providing crisis intervention, safe housing and supportive services.
We exist to provide pathways to freedom, safety, and hope for victims of sex trafficking and people involved in the sex trade.
Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.
Our mission is to provide food and key resources to help our neighbors and community thrive. we lead the effort to feed, educated and advocate ending hunger in the snoqualmie valley and beyond.
Our mission is to provide a variety of food products to families and individuals who are in need. We are open one day a week.
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
LCSNW partners with individuals, families and communities for health, justice and hope. LCSNW provides a wide variety of social services in Oregon, Washington and Idaho and serves people of all ages, cultures and faiths.
Mission: Inspired by their history and values, Jewish Family Service supports the needs of Jewish individuals and families, refugees and immigrants, and the broader community to achieve well-being, health, and stability. From food security…
Food recovery for low income families over 600 families served
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Domestic Violence Services of Snohomish and the most unlike its peers is National Geographic Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 91 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 United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds East Cooper Community Outreach ↗
- Who funds Peoria Home ↗
- Who funds Just Be You ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF SNOHOMISH ↗
- Who funds THISTLE FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds EVERETT GOSPEL MISSION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds One-Eighty Place ↗
- Who funds Lorton Community Action Center Inc ↗
- Who funds BEADS FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mukilteo Food Bank ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WAKE UP CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds LYNNWOOD FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds COCOON HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE FORMATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
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: Community Foundation of Snohomish County · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Employees Community Fund of Boeing-Puget Sound · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Medical Society of South Carolina · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Daniel Island Community Fund Inc · Trident United Way · Carmax Foundation
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 2534-40 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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