· Public charity
Economic Development Council of Mason County
To expand and diversify the economy throughout mason county by retaining and recruiting jobs, growing strong and sustainable industry clusters, and promoting global competitiveness for washington state.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k1 grant · $44k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $211k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $84,088 |
| MASON COUNTY SENIOR ACTIVITIES ASSO | $76,757 |
| SMOKING MO'S | $50,435 |
| HOOD CANAL SALMON ENHANCEMENT GROUP | $44,401 |
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 (FY23–23, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
11 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $161k 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
- SMSMOKING MO'S3× · 2021–2023 · $88k
- HCHOOD CANAL SALMON ENHANCEMENT GROUP2× · 2022–2023 · $62k · revenue -21%
- BRBlondie's Restaurant2× · 2021–2022 · $40k
Funded once
- MBMike's Beach Resortone grant, 2021 · $25k
- SRSisters Restaurantone grant, 2021 · $25k
- SLSpencer Lake Bar & Grillone grant, 2021 · $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 mission of the chamber is to promote business, enhance economic and community development, and serve as a catalyst for improving the overall quality of life in mason county.
To promote economic development
To delivery hot meals to those unable to leave their homes. we also assist with rent and utlitilies to families in need.
Nursing home operations
The mission of the library is to provide diverse and popular materials and personal service to our public, and to foster children's appreciation for reading and learning.
Historical education
Provide affordable housing
To provide nutrition, personal care and transportation to low income and elderly individuals in mason county, west virginia.
To provide activities and meals for senior citizens in the mason city area.
The purpose of the Mason County Historical Society is to educate the public about the history of Mason County.
The purpose of the Madison County Senior Citizens Center Inc. is to encourage, foster, and develop opportunities for the senior citizens of Madison County through education, recreation, and assistance in independent living.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mason County Senior Activities Association and the most unlike its peers is Shelton Pre-School Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 123 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.
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: Ndc Housing & Economic Development Corporation - Group Return · The Community Foundation of South Puget Sound · Amazonsmile 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 Economic Development Council of Mason County 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.