North Carolina · Nonprofit
MATTHEWS HELP CENTER
MATTHEWS HELP CENTER (North Carolina) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,210,786 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($585,597). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What Matthews Help Center does
Mission
To provide short-term crisis assistance to our neighbors in the greater matthews, north carolina community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mhc's primary program provides short-term financial assistance for expenses related to housing and transportation. However, mhc supports several other complementary programs. At our food pantry, clients receive the food items needed to feed their household for 1 week. Mhc operates the back porch treasures thrift boutique to offer articles of everyday living at no cost to clients and at affordable prices for the general public. Mhc also supports seasonal programs, including the back 2 school program (providing grade appropriate school supplies), the thanksgiving feast program, and the holiday support program.in fiscal year 2024/2025 we provided 12,634 financial and in-kind services to 2,881 households which impacted 7,065 individuals for a total of $944,817 in financial/non-financial assistance to our community.
$1,548,498 spentof which $971,014 as grants$1,194,778 earned by the program100% of program spendingDonated services that do meet the criteria for recognition, along with donated materials, are recorded at the estimated fair value as revenue and expense. During the year ended june 30, 2025 mhc recognized $116,234 as contributed revenue and expense for various in-kind goods and services.in accordance to the tax return instructions, this revenue and expense is not included on form 990.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,548,498.
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 2022 to 2023, from $2.1M to $2.5M (+24%).
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.
43% of MATTHEWS HELP CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (72% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Sandra Conway
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $84k → $311k.
11 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 MATTHEWS HELP CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 funders by total. 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
MATTHEWS HELP CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
58% 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 MATTHEWS HELP CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 67% · 2019 48% · 2020 43% · 2021 24% · 2022 36% · 2023 27% — diversifying over time.
“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
41% of MATTHEWS HELP CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
54% of MATTHEWS HELP CENTER'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 $1.0M that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
MATTHEWS HELP CENTER holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 369 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 369 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MATTHEWS HELP CENTER
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MATTHEWS HELP CENTER: 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 MATTHEWS HELP CENTER?
- MATTHEWS HELP CENTER (North Carolina) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,210,786 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($585,597). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MATTHEWS HELP CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $2,210,786 in grants to MATTHEWS HELP CENTER, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MATTHEWS HELP CENTER?
- FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $585,597 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MATTHEWS HELP CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 35 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