· Private foundation
Ba Mason Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHIPPEWA VALLEY HEALTH COOPERATIVE | $250,000 |
| VERITAS CLASSICAL ACADEMY | $50,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- FMFEED MY PEOPLE INC6× · 2017–2022 · $135k · revenue +29%
- HGHOPE GOSPEL MISSION INC3× · 2017–2024 · $95k · revenue +84%
- CMCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF EAU CLAIRE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $80k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- CYCHIPPEWA YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +100%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $50k
- ONOUR NAWAKWA INCone grant, 2024 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The eau claire area chamber of commerce, a not-for-profit business membership organization with steady membership around 1,200 members, is the advocate of business striving to enhance and protect the business environment and quality of…
To protect and restore central michigan's land, water, and wildlife resources to improve the quality of life for all.
To develop character, through adventure, inspired by tradition.
The chippewa area history center works to preserve local history and make it available to the public.
To receive and administer funds for educational and charitable purposes.
The chippewa county humane association seeks to relieve the suffering of homeless companion animals by setting an example of excellence in animal care and placement, humane education, and community leadership.
To protect and preserve natural and scenic land in chippewa county and the surrounding area.
Provide literacy programs to help adults & their families reach their goals
The eau claire regional arts council promotes the appreciation, expression, and growth of the arts in the chippewa valley and strives to transform lives through performing and visual arts.
The chippewa valley family ymca is a charitable, community service organization that includes men, women, and children of all ages, abilities, races, religions, and income abilities. the y is dedicated to the commitment of youth…
We improve lives and build stronger chippewa valley communities by bringing resources together to advance the common good.
Advance economic prosperity through business and job growth. the eau claire area economic development corporation's purpose is to create and implement strategies to attract and grow businesses, investment, and talent to our service area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Chippewa Co and the most unlike its peers is Flying Eagles Ski Club Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 17% of your grantees by number, and just 22% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 38 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CHIPPEWA CO ↗
- Who funds Chippewa Valley Health Cooperative ↗
- Who funds FEED MY PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds CHIPPEWA YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF EAU CLAIRE INC ↗
- Who funds FLYING EAGLES SKI CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds EAU CLAIRE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VERITAS CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CHIPPEWA FALLS YOUTH FOOTBALL ↗
- Who funds OUR NAWAKWA INC ↗
- Who funds CHIPPEWA VALLEY CULTURAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHIPPEWA VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds EAU CLAIRE COMMUNITY HUMANE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAU CLAIRE COMMUNITY PARKS ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds AGNES TABLE AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds CHIPPEWA FALLS MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY AND TECH ↗
- Who funds BADGER BOYS STATE INCORPORATED ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Pablo Foundation Inc · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Casper Foundation · Eau Claire Community Foundation · Community Foundation of Chippewa Co · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Edward and Hannah M Rutledge Charities Inc · Rcu Foundation Inc · Annmarie Foundation Inc · Mayo Clinic Group Return · The Nordson Corporation Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ba Mason Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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