Ohio · Nonprofit
1MATTERSORG
1MATTERSORG (Ohio) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,951,193 to it, the largest being STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ($7,400,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $8.0M
- Net assets
- $460k
What 1mattersorg does
Mission
1matters.org creates and funds new local and regional programs which return people to financial and domestic autonomy. These include the local coc, street papers in ann arbor, detroit and toledo, and programs for rural and student homelessness. Veterans matter is our first national program.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
Project connect/tent city: a weekend long "festival of compassion" which unites the entire community to deliver access to employment and services including a full-scale medical clinic, dental services, women's services, veteran's services, haircuts, food, clothing, and critical documents. This past year over 800 unhoused and marginally housed individuals and families were served.
$25,350 spent3% of program spendingVeterans matter: vm was started to house 35 local veterans and has now expended and housed over 6,000 unhoused veterans in 22 states thanks to the help of regular americans, veterans groups, businesses and 20+ celebrities. Partnered with the va and hud for the hud/vash program, veterans matter has a 100% success rate housing veterans in a long-term va program that has a 91% success rate in keeping veterans housed.
$970,124 spent97% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $995,474.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $709k to $456k (−36%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
93% of 1MATTERSORG’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Doug Nowak
Board chair
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $57k → $3.0M.
2 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of 1MATTERSORG’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
1MATTERSORG leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund 1MATTERSORG.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 54% · 2019 50% · 2020 62% · 2021 44% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
12% of 1MATTERSORG's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
1MATTERSORG draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $78k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
1MATTERSORG is better cushioned than half of the 10,281 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,281 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2022
Organizations like 1MATTERSORG
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for 1MATTERSORG: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds 1MATTERSORG?
- 1MATTERSORG (Ohio) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,951,193 to it, the largest being STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ($7,400,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does 1MATTERSORG have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $7,951,193 in grants to 1MATTERSORG, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of 1MATTERSORG?
- STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like 1MATTERSORG find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 24 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing