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MATTHEW HILL FOUNDATION INC

MATTHEW HILL FOUNDATION INC (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $96,831 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($34,671). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2022
$617k
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$97k
Net assets
$405k
7/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Matthew Hill Foundation Inc does

Mission

Matthew hill foundation, inc. (the foundation) is a web-based not-for-profit organization devoted to raising cancer awareness and supportive funds by putting a fun twist on the month of november. The goal of the foundation is to grow awareness by embracing our hair, which many cancer patients lose, and letting it grow wild and free. Donate the money you usually spend on shaving and grooming for a month to educate about cancer prevention, save lives, and aid those fighting the battle. Revenues are derived primarily from contributions. The majority of the raised funds are awarded as grants to cancer fighting organizations.

As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.

Program

  1. Grow cancer awareness by embracing our hair, which many cancer patients lose, and letting it grow wild and free and donate the money you usually spend on shaving and grooming for a month to educate about cancer prevention, save lives, and aid those fighting the battle.

    $448,559 spentof which $376,269 as grants$584 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $448,559.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.0M) Expenses 100 ($1.8M) Net assets 100 ($279k)2018 Revenue 85 ($1.7M) Expenses 90 ($1.6M) Net assets 122 ($342k)2019 Revenue 72 ($1.4M) Expenses 76 ($1.4M) Net assets 137 ($382k)2020 Revenue 51 ($1.0M) Expenses 55 ($990k) Net assets 141 ($393k)2021 Revenue 37 ($734k) Expenses 35 ($634k) Net assets 176 ($493k)2022 Revenue 32 ($617k) Expenses 39 ($705k) Net assets 145 ($405k)
201720182019202020212022
Revenue (32)Expenses (39)Net assets (145)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.5M to $1.2M (−22%).

$1.9M
$1.7M
$1.5M
$1.2M
$866k
$737k
201720182019202020212022
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$171k
’17
$63k
’18
$40k
’19
$11k
’20
$100k
’21
−$88k
’22
5.1
months of
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.

Chief executive

Sara Svendsen

Executive director

Board chair

Nicholas Hill

Chairman/ treasurer

As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.

201720182019202020212022
Listed444555
Joined·+0+0+1+0+0
No longer listed·00000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $16k → $7k.

5 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 MATTHEW HILL FOUNDATION INC’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

MATTHEW HILL FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

93% 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 MATTHEW HILL FOUNDATION INC.

36%
largest funder
77%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 50% · 2019 56% · 2020 66% · 2021 55% · 2022 84% · 2023 93% — 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

44% of MATTHEW HILL FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

64% of MATTHEW HILL FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $34k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 9 states.

IL
NY
NJ
CA
CO
MD
NC
GA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $62k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like MATTHEW HILL FOUNDATION INC

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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

64% of spending goes to programs.

Program 64%Management 19%Fundraising 17%

Governance

4
board members
75%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 36 states

ME
NH
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
FL

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Questions and answers

Who funds MATTHEW HILL FOUNDATION INC?
MATTHEW HILL FOUNDATION INC (California) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $96,831 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($34,671). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MATTHEW HILL FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $96,831 in grants to MATTHEW HILL FOUNDATION INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MATTHEW HILL FOUNDATION INC?
PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $34,671 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MATTHEW HILL FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 17 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