· Private foundation
Jd Mason Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k4 grants · $4k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $31k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUTH ON COURSE | $30,500 |
| SAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATIONS | $3,310 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| CODE FOR FUN | $170 |
| YOUGIVEGOODS FOUNDATION INC | $89 |
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 (FY18–25, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $759 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
- SFSAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +38%
- CHCupertino High School Band Booster3× · 2022–2024 · $1k · revenue +73%
- ACADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES2× · 2021–2024 · $300 · revenue +27%
Funded once
- CRCALIFORNIA REGIONAL TRAINING CENTER STANFORD WRESTLINGone grant, 2023 · $4k
- SCSILVER CREEK VALLEY COUNTRY CLUB EMPLOYEE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $3k
- GGIRLVENTURESone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue -26%
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 association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
Who we are - silicon valley education foundation (svef) focuses on raising student performance in the critical areas of math and science across all 33 santa clara county school districts, and also adjoining san mateo and alameda counties.…
In an atmosphere of mutual respect and responsibility, the oaks school prepares students to meet the world with the combined wisdom of an intelligent mind, a skilled hand, and a compassionate heart.
The University of California Student Association (UCSA) is a coalition of students and student governments that aims to provide a collective voice for all students through advocacy and direct action. UCSA participates in the shared…
The mission of the California Youth Symphony (CYS) is to serve the community while providing talented young musicians with the finest musical experience and the opportunity for personal growth through the training and performance of…
Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…
CSSA as a student-led organization strives to improve the lives of California State University (CSU) students by advocating for student needs and engaging students in systemwide, state, and federal higher education policy making.
To inspire and empower all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring adults.
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
Boards of education are entrusted by their communities to ensure that a high quality education is provided to each student. csba promotes success for all students by defining and driving the public education agenda and strengthening school…
The mission of the california council on economic education is to improve california's economic future by teaching economics and financial literacy, especially in under-served communities. ccee provides a broad range of resources and…
Empowers choral musicians to create transformative experiences for california's diverse communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Family Giving Tree and the most unlike its peers is The Undaunted Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 36 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 NCGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SILVER CREEK VALLEY COUNTRY CLUB EMPLOYEE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Cupertino High School Band Booster ↗
- Who funds GIRLVENTURES ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEKIDS ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA REGIONAL TRAINING CENTER ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds THREE RING RANCH ↗
- Who funds ADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY GIVING TREE ↗
- Who funds Monta Vista High School Athletic Boosters Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WYLDER NATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEINWAY SOCIETY - THE BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds Cake4kids ↗
- Who funds Code For Fun ↗
- Who funds SUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds Music At Lawson ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNDAUNTED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PTA CA CON L P COLLINS ELEMENTARY PTA ↗
- Who funds EDWARD BOSS PRADO 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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Analog Devices Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Jd Mason Foundation 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.