Sealed proof · filed Form 990-PF

MATHILE FAMILY FOUNDATION

EIN 31-1257219, tax year December 1, 2023 to November 30, 2024. The return the foundation filed, as the IRS published it, with its arithmetic re-done exactly and sealed September 28, 2026.

This is the latest return the IRS has published for this foundation. Its tax year ended 22 months ago, so a later one may have been filed since and not yet appear in the public file. The IRS received it on October 14, 2025.

The answer

Nothing carried into the next year: the return shows the year’s amount paid within the year.

Every line we re-do agrees with the return as filed.

One field, no account. A person writes to you with the page. Your address goes on our contact list beside this foundation’s name. The page stays either way.

Keep this record for the foundation, year on year: the Filing Record, the foundation’s own order, cancellable in writing for a full refund until thirty days after the filing deadline.

Qualifying distributions1.38×

the distributable amount (Part XI ÷ Part X)

Carried to next year$0

undistributed income, Part XII: nothing carried into the next year

Distributions as a rate6.8%

of net noncharitable-use assets; the legal test is the distributable amount, not this rate

Assets at fair market value$291.9M

end of the tax year, Part II

Largest listed stock7.7%

SPDR PORTFOLIO SP 500 GROWTH ETF

If that stock halved−3.9%

of total assets, from that one name

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MATHILE FAMILY FOUNDATION · Form 990-PF, year ended November 30, 2024checking
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This page’s own short link: paretoalphasystems.com/p/9a04e63da9d5 — it fits on a printed page, and whoever opens it can run the same check.

The return’s own arithmetic, re-done

Each line as filed and as recomputed
LineAs filedRecomputedResult
Minimum investment return: 5% of net noncharitable-use assets (Part IX line 6)$13,535,628$13,535,627.5recomputes, within the form's whole-dollar rounding (difference $0.5)
Excise tax: 1.39% of net investment income (Part V line 1)$160,616$160,616.3348recomputes, within the form's whole-dollar rounding (difference −$0.3348)
Distributable amount: minimum investment return − taxes + recoveries − deduction (Part X line 7)$13,360,221$13,360,221recomputes exactly

Where the assets sit, at fair market value

Assets by Part II line, at fair market value
Part II lineFair market valueShare of assets
Savings and temporary cash investments (line 2)$3.7M1.3%
Corporate stock (line 10b)$96.9M33.2%
Corporate bonds (line 10c)$17.9M6.1%
Other investments (line 13)$173.3M59.4%

The ten largest listed stocks, of 44 on the schedule

The schedule ties to Part II line 10b exactly. It behaves like 6.6 equal holdings; the ten largest are 93.4% of the listed stock.

The ten largest listed stocks
Stock, as listedFair market valueShare of assets
SPDR PORTFOLIO SP 500 GROWTH ETF$22.6M7.7%
ISHARES RUSSELL 1000 VALUE ETF$17.4M6.0%
ISHARES INC CORE MSCI EMERGING MKTS ETF$15.4M5.3%
ISHARES RUSSELL 2000 ETF$14.7M5.0%
SPDR S&P 500 ETF TRUST UNITS SER 1 S&P$12.3M4.2%
INVESCO LTD$2.6M0.9%
SPDR SERIES TRUST S&P 500 GROWTH ETF$2.6M0.9%
ISHARES TR EAFE GRWTH ETF$1.6M0.6%
ISHARES CORE S&P US VALUE ETF$936,5840.3%
BILL COM HLDGS INC COM$443,7020.2%

Largest other investments (line 13), as listed

Largest other investments, line 13
MFO GMO QUAL FD III$23M7.9%
MFO ARTISAN FDS INC INTL VALUE FD INSTL SHS$15M5.1%
57 STARS GLOBAL$7.1M2.4%
1607 CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL EQUITY FUND$6.9M2.3%
CAPULA$6.5M2.2%

What the foundation answered on the form

  • Part VI-B 4a: did the foundation invest during the year in a manner that would jeopardize its charitable purposes? No
  • Part VI-B 4b: did it make any investment in a prior year that could jeopardize its charitable purpose and that had not been removed from jeopardy? No
  • Part VI-B 3a: did it hold more than a 2% direct or indirect interest in any business enterprise? Yes
  • Part VI-B 3b: did it have excess business holdings? No
  • Part VI-B 2a: did it have undistributed income for prior years? No

Quoted as filed. These are the foundation’s own answers; this page does not test them.

Control statement · nine controls

Nine controls, read from the return.

Each control reads one part of the filed return and states a fact in a fixed vocabulary: agrees, differs, reported, not reported, not applicable, not checked. Whether any of it met a requirement is counsel’s question, not this page’s.

Recomputed each time the page is read; not part of the seal. The seal covers the body above (controls v2, kernel@2026-09-15.1).

This return: 4 agree, 4 reported, 1 not checked.

ControlReadsResultDetail
Minimum investment returnPart IX line 6 against 5% of line 5, prorated for a short yearagreesFiled $13,535,628; recomputed $13,535,627.5; agrees within the form's whole-dollar rounding.
Excise taxPart V line 1 against 1.39% of net investment incomeagreesFiled $160,616; recomputed $160,616.33; agrees within the form's whole-dollar rounding.
Distributable amountPart X line 7 against the form's own chain from line 1agreesFiled $13,360,221; recomputed $13,360,221; agrees to the dollar.
Payout coveragePart XI total against Part X line 7reportedQualifying distributions $18,413,401 against a distributable amount of $13,360,221 (1.38×).
Payout deadlinePart XII undistributed income and the date it falls duereportedPart XII reports $0 undistributed income for the year ended 30 November 2024: nothing carried into the next year, so nothing from this year falls due by 30 November 2025.
Holdings tie-outThe corporate-stock schedule against Part II line 10bagrees44 listed holdings sum to Part II line 10b exactly; the largest is 7.7% of total assets.
The foundation's own answersPart VI-B 2a, 3a, 3b, 4a and 4b, each answeredreportedAll 5 answered; Yes to Part VI-B 3a.
Filing timelinessThe e-file timestamp beside the original due date and the extension window, each with its IRC §7503 roll to the next business dayreportedReturn timestamped 14 October 2025; the original due date was 15 April 2025; the six-month extension window ended 15 October 2025. Whether an extension was granted is not visible in the e-file; the timestamp is the preparer software's, not the IRS receipt.
Year-to-year continuityThis year's opening balances against last year's closingnot checkedNeeds the prior year's return; one sealed year cannot check itself.

A line that differs is the return’s figure beside the recomputed one, as filed and as recomputed. The return may carry a reason this page cannot read: a schedule filed on paper, an election, a later amendment. It is not a finding. The page is not indexed. It is read by whoever holds the link: the person who asked for it, and anyone the foundation sends it to, its preparer first.

Year-to-year continuity needs two filed years on record. The years, below, reads this foundation’s filed returns in order and holds each against the one before.

The calendar ahead

A payout is owed on last year’s assets, whatever this year’s market does.

Recomputed each time the page is read; not part of the seal. The seal covers the body above (forward v2, kernel@2026-09-15.1). Read against October 8, 2026.

ByWhatAmountBasis
April 15, 2026
Passed
Excise tax on the year ending 30 November 2025, due with that return by 15 April 2026. That date has passed; the figure for that year is on its own return, not this one.$160,616Projected under the assumptions below
November 30, 2026Distributable amount for the year ending 30 November 2025, to be paid out$13,375,011Projected under the assumptions below

If net noncharitable-use assets fell 20% over the year ending November 30, 2025: what is owed now, nothing from Part XII, is unchanged; the following year’s minimum investment return would be $10,828,502, $2,707,125 less than the projection.

The assumptions, the forward kernel proof, and what was refused
  • Net noncharitable-use assets for the year ending 30 November 2025 equal this return's Part IX line 5, $270712550; the thirteen-month average is not observable from a filing.
  • Net investment income for that year equals this return's, $11555132.
  • No recoveries, income tax or deduction next year; the rates stay 5% and 1.39%; a full tax year.
  • The fall shown is 20% of net noncharitable-use assets, applied to next year's average only; what is already owed was computed on this year's average and is unchanged.
  • Forward kernel proof (the projection’s own, recomputed, not sealed) 480c6e39d7727f03… · kernel@2026-09-15.1 · forward v2, controls v2
  • A projection under the stated assumptions, from the foundation's own filed figures; not a forecast, not advice.
  • The foundation's preparer computes the actual amounts from the year's monthly values; this page states what the last return implies if nothing changes.
  • What is already owed was computed on last year's average assets and does not change with this year's market.

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The years · carryover chain

One return is one year. The payout is kept across six.

What a foundation leaves undistributed is due by the end of the next tax year, and what it distributes beyond the year’s amount may be applied in the five years after. So what is owed, and what may be set against it, is only readable across the filed years. The IRS publishes those years; this reads them in order, re-adds each Part XII, and holds each year’s opening lines against the year before’s closing lines.

Sealed under a hash of their own the first time they are opened; not part of the seal above.

Up to six filed returns, read from the IRS and sealed under one hash, at a page of their own. Nothing about you is recorded.

The seal

Recomputed just now: it matches what was sealed on September 28, 2026. Anyone can check it without us.

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proof 9a04e63da9d5a018e1031c5e57b6ae1835200a9343f3c906ad7c21564b4b3c2f · recomputed now, matches
return Form 990-PF, IRS object 202532879349100803, schema 2023v6.0 — the file as the IRS published it hashes to d52994eb5a489a45…
source file 202532879349100803_public.xml inside 2025_TEOS_XML_11C.zip at irs.gov — not part of the seal; fetch it yourself with verify_proof.py 9a04e63da9d5 --fetch
arithmetic kernel@2026-09-15.1 · kernel proof 6014e5c591e750ef…
rules b839212b6742304a91af2ff9e04e24acdb32ac9fd48760e6b89289b532c4c45b · commit f80886675d1e — the digest of the 990-PF rules this proof was sealed under (body v2); a proof of the same return under later rules names this hash as superseded

This page is not listed on this site and asks search engines not to index it. It is reached by its link, which whoever asked for it holds.

This foundation’s finance lead or counsel: to add a note beside this page, ask for a correction, or keep the record, write to us.

11,842 foundation returns re-done by the same code; in 11,827 every line we recompute agrees. The study.

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The program, and the full body that was hashed
let total_assets_fmv = 291943534 USD
let mix_savings = share(3686547 USD, total_assets_fmv)
let mix_stock = share(96920118 USD, total_assets_fmv)
let mix_bonds = share(17860256 USD, total_assets_fmv)
let mix_other = share(173271861 USD, total_assets_fmv)
let net_noncharitable_assets = 270712550 USD
let mir_filed = 13535628 USD
let mir_recomputed = net_noncharitable_assets * 5%
let mir_difference = mir_filed - mir_recomputed
let net_investment_income = 11555132 USD
let excise_filed = 160616 USD
let excise_recomputed = net_investment_income * 1.39%
let excise_difference = excise_filed - excise_recomputed
let distributable_filed = 13360221 USD
let distributable_recomputed = 13535628 USD - 175407 USD + 0 USD - 0 USD
let distributable_difference = distributable_filed - distributable_recomputed
let qualifying_distributions = 18413401 USD
let payout_coverage = qualifying_distributions / distributable_filed
let payout_rate = share(qualifying_distributions, net_noncharitable_assets)
let undistributed_to_next_year = 0 USD
let stocks = [22571203 USD, 17405828 USD, 15409309 USD, 14654661 USD, 12261866 USD, 2613870 USD, 2605949 USD, 1616702 USD, 936584 USD, 443702 USD, 369799 USD, 366199 USD, 357550 USD, 350430 USD, 297630 USD, 271938 USD, 267503 USD, 263409 USD, 256443 USD, 245183 USD, 238264 USD, 221107 USD, 216551 USD, 207199 USD, 204825 USD, 203719 USD, 191877 USD, 190242 USD, 186156 USD, 179288 USD, 155456 USD, 155369 USD, 150170 USD, 149375 USD, 138479 USD, 129083 USD, 118003 USD, 85200 USD, 85140 USD, 54301 USD, 44859 USD, 24986 USD, 17841 USD, 6870 USD]
let stock_count = count(stocks)
let largest_stock = max(stocks)
let largest_stock_share_of_assets = share(largest_stock, total_assets_fmv)
let top10_share_of_stock = share(sum([22571203 USD, 17405828 USD, 15409309 USD, 14654661 USD, 12261866 USD, 2613870 USD, 2605949 USD, 1616702 USD, 936584 USD, 443702 USD]), sum(stocks))
let stock_concentration = hhi(stocks)
let effective_stock_holdings = 1 / stock_concentration
let largest_stock_halved_share_of_assets = share(largest_stock * 50%, total_assets_fmv)
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    "This page neither establishes nor rules out any tax consequence, and no return is prepared or amended here.",
    "A line that differs is the return's figure beside the recomputed one, as filed and as recomputed. The return may carry a reason this page cannot read: a schedule filed on paper, an election, a later amendment. It is not a finding."
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The seal’s own scope:

  • Every figure here is the foundation's own filed return or exact arithmetic on it; nothing is estimated.
  • A 990-PF is a year-end snapshot. Prudence is judged at the time of each decision, which a filing cannot show.
  • This page neither establishes nor rules out any tax consequence, and no return is prepared or amended here.
  • A line that differs is the return's figure beside the recomputed one, as filed and as recomputed. The return may carry a reason this page cannot read: a schedule filed on paper, an election, a later amendment. It is not a finding.

We don’t prepare or file a 990-PF. We read the one the foundation filed, re-do its arithmetic exactly, and seal what it says.