Matthew Foster Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 161568127
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Elma, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7166524884
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $73,779
- Expenses
- $73,454
- Assets
- $133,626
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- H Burton Foster (President/Director)
People named in this filing
- H Burton Foster (President/Director)
- Debra Foster (Sec/Treasurer/Director)
- Craig Foster (VP/Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Medical and Assistance Grants to help Families with children who have cancer to cover expenses not covered by other traditional sources such as insurance.
What it reported doing in 2025
Helped nearly 50 families of children suffering with cancer who required expensive medical and related treatments pay for such things as hair replacement, travel for expert medical treatment, and medical supplies.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 93% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.6%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 83.9%; rating input score 84
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.4%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.82; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.6% of revenue deployed · 83.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $62K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.