· Public charity
George Mason University Foundation Inc
The george mason university foundation, inc.
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
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $62k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $63k
- $250k+6 grants · $61M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERCATUS CENTER | $26,447,882 |
| GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY | $17,823,391 |
| GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY | $10,910,178 |
| GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY | $3,453,909 |
| GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY | $2,037,833 |
| GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY | $805,663 |
| OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA | $63,217 |
| NORTHERN VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $37,825 |
| OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE | $23,879 |
| GMU HILLEL INC | $8,036 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of your 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.
8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- OLOSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE at GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY3× · 2023–2025 · $195k · revenue +5%
- IFInstitute for Humane Studies2× · 2019–2020 · $146k · revenue +11%
- GMGeorge Mason University Hillel2× · 2023–2025 · $16k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- OGOIL & GAS ACTION NETWORKone grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue 0%
- NVNorthern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $17k · revenue +62%
- ODOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $17k · revenue +60%
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 university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
The university of virginia law school foundation's primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds for the benefit of the university of virginia school of law.
The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).
To secure financial support that enables college-bound students to access and graduate from outstanding virginia independent higher education institutions.
To support the educational, scientific and charitable activities of virginia commonwealth university and related organizations.
Aware that an active mind is as necessary as social relationships and physical exercise to a full life, the osher lifelong learning institute at the university of virginia offers educational opportunities and intellectual enrichment to…
The university of virginia medical alumni association and medical school foundation is dedicated to enhancing the experience of students, housestaff, alumni and faculty of the uva school of medicine by creating opportunities for mentoring,…
To further the purposes and aspirations of the college and graduate school of arts & sciences at the university of virginia, by advising and supporting the dean, raising funds and promoting excellence and jeffersonian distinction.
The mission of the alumni association is to build the strongest bond among alumni and between alumni and the university by serving all alumni and students; being the center for engaging and connecting the global uva community; acting as a…
The mission of the University is to inspire independent thinkers who become trustworthy, effective leaders that shape caring communities. The vision of the University of Lynchburg is to cultivate a world that is innovative, authentic, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Virginia Foundation and the most unlike its peers is George Mason University Hillel. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 13 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 CENTER FOR MEDIA AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS ↗
- Who funds OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE at GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Institute for Humane Studies ↗
- Who funds OIL & GAS ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds George Mason University Hillel ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 George Mason University Foundation Inc 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.