North Carolina · Nonprofit
THE MATTHEW 25 CENTER
THE MATTHEW 25 CENTER (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,169 to it, the largest being THE SANDERS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($7,600). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $21k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $16k
- Net assets
- $220k
What The Matthew 25 Center does
Mission
Ministering to families of prisoners
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provide free housing to family members of inmates encarcerated in prisons in southeast nc. Services provided included accomodations in private bedrooms, a continental breakfast and information about visitation policies at the various prisons.
$24,005 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $24,005.
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 2023 to 2024, from $235k to $224k (−5%).
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.
100% of THE MATTHEW 25 CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (52% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $7k → $1k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 THE MATTHEW 25 CENTER’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
THE MATTHEW 25 CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 49% · 2021 49% · 2022 50% · 2023 98% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of THE MATTHEW 25 CENTER's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $69 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
THE MATTHEW 25 CENTER is better cushioned than half of the 2,318 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,318 housing & shelter nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like THE MATTHEW 25 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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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 THE MATTHEW 25 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 THE MATTHEW 25 CENTER?
- THE MATTHEW 25 CENTER (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,169 to it, the largest being THE SANDERS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($7,600). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE MATTHEW 25 CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $16,169 in grants to THE MATTHEW 25 CENTER, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE MATTHEW 25 CENTER?
- THE SANDERS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE MATTHEW 25 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 4 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