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The Matthew 6 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.

$21k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$43kRecreation & Sports$18kInternational$12kPublic Benefit$9kArts & Culture$9kHousing & Shelter$5kReligion$5kCommunity Improvement$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$178k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LONGHORN FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES$12,000
THE SOURCE$6,000
THE MUNY CONSERVANCY$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LONGHORN FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $12k → 10%HILL HOUSE: $1k → 10%CAMPUS CRUSADE: $5k → 13%SEATTLE CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $10k → 9%HILL HOUSE: $1k → 10%HILL HOUSE: $1k → 10%HILL HOUSE: $1k → 10%HILL HOUSE: $1k → 10%THE SETON FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%THE MUNY CONSERVANCY: $2k → 10%TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%PEASE PARK CONSERVANCY: $1k → 10%THE SOURCE: $6k → 10%THE SOURCE: $3k → 10%THE TRAIL FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%HOPE FOR THE NATIONS: $1k → 10%MOSS PIERATT FOUNDATION: $4k → 10%TERRYTOWN UMC: $1k → 10%TERRYTOWN UMC: $1k → 10%TARRYTOWN UMC CHILDREN'S DAY OUT: $500 → 10%TARRYTOWN UMC CHILDREN'S DAY OUT: $350 → 10%VALOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $500 → 10%TARRYTOWN UMC CHILDREN'S DAY OUT: $350 → 10%PELOTON U: $10k → 10%PELOTON U: $10k → 10%PELOTON U: $10k → 10%PELOTON U: $2k → 10%CTX ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION: $2k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$70k · 8 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +214% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
8

Total granted

$70k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+214%
+14%

Still filing today

38%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPublic BenefitInternationalCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PI
    PELOTONU INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $32k · revenue +214%
  • KF
    KAMUKAMA FOUNDATION
    5× · 2018–2023 · $11k · revenue +223%
  • TP
    TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2022 · $9k · revenue +137%

Funded once

  • SC
    SEATTLE CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +14%
  • CC
    CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • MP
    Moss Pieratt Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue -87%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Psu Educational Foundation
Education
2
Texas Prairieland Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Pescosolido Family Scholarship
Education
4
The Pedro and Carlos Morrison Foundation
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5
Nison Pinson Foundation
International
6
Psea Scholarship Trust
Education
7
Peter Kiewit Foundation
Philanthropy
8
The Penates Foundation
—
9
Stratton Petit Foundation
Education
10
The Pless Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Houston Geological Society Foundation
—
12
The Peel Compton Foundation
—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Public Policy Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Moss Pieratt Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PELOTONU INC: $32,000 · EducationPELOTONU INCSEATTLE CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationSEATTLE CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOLLONGHORN FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $12,000 · OtherLONGHORN FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETE…THE SOURCE: $8,500 · OtherTHE SOURCECAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INC: $5,000 · OtherCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INCHILL HOUSE: $5,000 · OtherHILL HOUSETHE TRAIL FOUNDATION: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · Other+4 more: $3,950 · Other+4 moreKAMUKAMA FOUNDATION: $10,500 · InternationalKAMUKAMA FO…TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION: $8,500 · Public BenefitTEXAS PUBL…MUNY CONSERVANCY: $1,500 · Public BenefitMUNY CONSE…Moss Pieratt Foundation: $3,500 · Community ImprovementCTX ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentPease Park Conservancy: $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$42,000Other$38,450International$10,500Public Benefit$10,000Community Improvement$3,500Youth Development$2,000Recreation & Sports$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPELOTONU INC: $32,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetKAMUKAMA FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSEATTLE CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMoss Pieratt Foundation: $3,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCTX ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMUNY CONSERVANCY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPease Park Conservancy: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 PELOTONU INC ↗
  • Who funds KAMUKAMA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Moss Pieratt Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CTX ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MUNY CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Pease Park Conservancy ↗

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA8.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Matthew 6 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Matthew 6 Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 18 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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