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The Mattison Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$11k
Granted FY2020
9
Grants FY2020
9
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
0179% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Religion$16kHealth$14kArts & Culture$11kHousing & Shelter$3kInternational$500Other$0
02FY2020 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
9
States reached
$495k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MALTZ JUPITER THEATER$5,000
ORDER OF MALTA ASSOCATION$1,300
EWTN$1,000
CARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY$1,000
THE WORD AMONG US$500
GUEST HOUSE$500
Individual grant recipient$500
PRESENTATION MINISTRIES$500
OUR DAILY BREAD$250
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LITURGICAL PRESS: $500 → 11%CATHOLIC WORLD REPORTS: $250 → 10%ORDER OF MALTA AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $3k → 17%HOLY FAMILY HOSPITAL BETHLEHEM FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%MALTZ JUPITER THEATER: $5k → 11%GUEST HOUSE: $500 → 8%EWTN: $1k → 16%OUR DAILY BREAD: $250 → 9%PRESENTATION MINISTRIES: $500 → 16%THE CATHOLIC THING: $500 → 6%CARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY: $1k → 9%THE WORD AMONG US: $500 → 6%ORDER OF MALTA AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $3k → 17%THE CATHOLIC THING: $250 → 14%MALTZ JUPITER THEATER: $5k → 11%EWTN: $250 → 16%ORDER OF MALTA AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $3k → 17%MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC: $500 → 11%EQUESTRIAN ORDER OF THE HOLY SEPULCHER OF JERUSALEM: $2k → 17%SUNSET HOUSE: $2k → 11%ORDER OF MALTA ASSOCATION: $1k → 17%SUNSET HOUSE: $1k → 11%ORDER OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE: $1k → 17%JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FOUDNATION: $10k → 11%CNEWA: $500 → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MN
MI
NY
OH
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
AL
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 50% of The Mattison Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 40% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 26%.

The Mattison Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$24k · 7 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2020, 4 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
7

Total granted

$24k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+87%
+158%

Still filing today

57%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
HealthReligionPhilanthropyArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • MJ
    MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC
    2× · 2018–2020 · $6k · revenue +55%
  • SH
    SUNSET HOUSE INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $3k · revenue +87%
  • CN
    CARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CATHOLIC HGR ED
    2× · 2018–2020 · $3k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • JM
    Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +158%
  • MJ
    MALTZ JUPITER THEATER
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • EO
    EQUESTRIAN ORDER OF THE HOLY SEPULCHER OF JERUSALEM
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
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
Paulist Press Inc

The Paulist Press was founded to provide Catholic literature and resources for the the religious use of parishes, institutions, individuals and other religious bodies to further the educational and mission goals of the Christian faith and…

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2
Living His Life Abundantly International

To inform, instruct and inspire people through the media about the sacred scriptures and teachings of the roman catholic church

Religion
3
Ewtn News Inc

Ewtn news creates and distributes catholic news content around the world in several languages through television programs, radio services, multiple websites, digital and print platforms, and national and international news agencies.

Religion
4
Ewtn Publishing Inc

Publish catholic books in support of eternal word television network, inc.

Religion
5
St John's Rehabilitation Hospital and Nursing Center Inc

St. john's rehabilitation hospital provides nursing and rehabilitation services to individuals of all faiths, regardless of any individuals' ability to pay for services, including routine and ancillary care, in support of the archiocese of…

Health
6
St Michael's Home Inc

To run a religious adult home

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7
Catholics Come Home Inc

Create media messages to invite Catholics to return to the practice of their faith and invite others to that faith.

Religion
8
Holy Family Radio

To procure and deliver bold, authentically catholic radio programming for listeners across west michigan.

Religion
9
The National Catholic Reporter Publishing Co

Ncr connects catholics to church, faith and the common good with independent news, analysis and spiritual reflection.

Religion
10
Priests for Life
Youth Development
11
Jupiter Medical Center Physicians Group Inc

JMCPG is committed to providing compassionate, personalized care from the region's most trusted team of physicians and health care professionals. Across the Palm Beaches and the Treasure Coast of Florida, JMCPG practice locations offer…

Health
12
Ewtn Religious Catalogue Inc

To support eternal word television network, inc., a 501(c)(3) organization which operates television, radio, & internet media networks from a catholic perspective.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Word Among Us Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sunset House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the 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 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ORDER OF MALTA AMERICAN ASSOCIATION: $9,300 · OtherORDER OF MALTA AMERICAN ASSOCIATIONMALTZ JUPITER THEATER: $5,000 · OtherMALTZ JUPITER THEATEREQUESTRIAN ORDER OF THE HOLY SEPULCHER OF JERUSALEM: $1,500 · OtherEQUESTRIAN ORDER OF THE HOLY SEPULCHER OF JERUSALEMORDER OF MALTA ASSOCATION: $1,300 · OtherORDER OF MALTA ASSOCATIONORDER OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE: $1,200 · OtherORDER OF THE HOLY SEPULCHREIndividual grant recipient: $750 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $750 · Other+6 more: $2,500 · Other+6 moreJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $10,000 · PhilanthropyJupiter Medical Center F…MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC: $5,500 · Arts & CultureMALTZ JUPITER…SUNSET HOUSE INC: $3,000 · HealthGUEST HOUSE INC: $500 · HealthCARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CATHOLIC HGR ED: $3,000 · Housing & ShelterETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC: $1,250 · ReligionPRESENTATION MINISTRIES INC: $500 · Religion
Other$22,300Philanthropy$10,000Arts & Culture$5,500Health$3,500Housing & Shelter$3,000Religion$1,750

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUNSET HOUSE INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CATHOLIC HGR ED: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORD AMONG US INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUEST HOUSE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRESENTATION MINISTRIES INC: $500 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 Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds SUNSET HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds CARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CATHOLIC HGR ED ↗
  • Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds WORD AMONG US INC ↗
  • Who funds GUEST HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds PRESENTATION MINISTRIES INC ↗

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA10.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Mattison Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mattison Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 20%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
    2get no government money at all
    2report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Mattison Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Mattison Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 20 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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