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Matthew 6 Foundation

Macon, GA · EIN 83-0409890. Reported 50 grants totalling $173,100 to 20 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,470median grant
$173,100granted, 2021-2024
20organizations funded
79%of grantees funded again the next year
$374,111assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Matthew 6 Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $1,470. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $4,300; the smallest was $500 and the largest $25,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
4 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
34 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
9 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
2 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Return to Glory Ministries IncTallahassee, FL$66,000442024
Living Hope ChurchTraverse City, MI$19,600442024
Wildwood ChurchTallahassee, FL$18,100442024
Ransomed Heart MinistriesColorado Springs, CO$12,000332024
Christtown Ministries IncQuincy, FL$11,900442024
Killearn United Methodist ChurchTallahassee, FL$10,000442024
Joyce Meyer MinistriesFenton, MO$6,440442024
Live the Life IncTallahassee, FL$6,000222023
City Walk Urban MissionTallahassee, FL$3,800442024
Wild at HeartColorado Springs, CO$3,500112021
Well Seen IncTampa, FL$2,800332024
Florida Pregnancy Care Network IncTallahassee, FL$2,000222024
Good News OutreachTallahassee, FL$2,000222022
Good Samaritan NetworkTallahassee, FL$2,000222022
The Orchard Learning CenterLynn Haven, FL$1,960222023
The Living HarvestTallahassee, FL$1,000112022
Thomasville Road Baptist ChurchTallahassee, FL$1,000112024
Tunnels to Towers FoundationStaten Island, NY$1,000112024
Way-FmColorado Springs, CO$1,000112021
Wellspring GroupNorcross, GA$1,000112021

14 of 20 (70%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 79%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 25 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Religion
17 grants
Human Services
4 grants
Food & Nutrition
3 grants
Education
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202113$55,000$1,500
202214$39,840$1,320
202311$26,560$2,000
202412$51,700$2,200

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 74% of this one's giving went to organizations in Florida. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Florida
$129K
Michigan
$20K
Colorado
$16K
Missouri
$6K
New York
$1K
Georgia
$1K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund5 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc4 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program4 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc3 shared recipientsNatl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc3 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation3 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,470. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Florida.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Matthew 6 Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 121 Perimeter Pkwy, Macon, GA, 31210. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 83-0409890 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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