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Kristin Pooh Mason Foundation Inc

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.

$24k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$75kRecreation & Sports$45kHealth$37kAnimals$16kEducation$5kReligion$1kYouth Development$1kHousing & Shelter$800
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$4,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$359k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES$10,500
SUNRISE ARC OF LAKE COUNTY INC$5,500
LAKE SUMTER STATE COLLEGE$4,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF LAKE COUNTY$3,000
AFHAR INC$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 34% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LAKE SUMTER CHILDRENS ADVOCACY: $30k → 10%CENTRAL FLORIDA FCA: $1k → 13%HUMANE SOCIETY OF LAKE COUNTY: $4k → 16%FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $11k → 15%LAKE SUMTER CHILDRENS ADVOCACY: $19k → 10%CENTRAL FLORIDA FCA: $459 → 13%HUMANE SOCIETY OF LAKE COUNTY: $3k → 16%FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $11k → 15%LAKE SUMTER CHILDRENS ADVOCACY: $13k → 10%HUMANE SOCIETY OF LAKE COUNTY: $3k → 16%FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $11k → 15%LAKE SUMTER CHILDRENS ADVOCACY: $9k → 10%HUMANE SOCIETY OF LAKE COUNTY: $3k → 16%FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $11k → 15%LAKE SUMTER CHILDRENS ADVOCACY: $5k → 10%HUMANE SOCIETY OF LAKE COUNTY: $2k → 16%FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $2k → 15%BEACON COLLEGE: $1k → 10%FORWARD PATHS FOUNDATION: $800 → 10%HOOPS LIFE CARES INC: $1k → 10%AFHAR INC: $1k → 10%AFHAR INC: $500 → 10%SUNRISE ARC OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $7k → 10%SUNRISE ARC OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $7k → 10%SUNRISE ARC OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $6k → 10%SUNRISE ARC OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $6k → 10%SUNRISE ARC OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $5k → 10%SUNRISE ARC OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $5k → 10%LAKE SUMTER STATE COLLEGE: $4k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$173k · 6 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
4

Total granted

$173k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+138%
+142%

Still filing today

33%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • LS
    LAKE SUMTER CHILDRENS ADVOCACY
    5× · 2017–2021 · $75k
  • FO
    FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
    5× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +87%
  • SA
    SUNRISE ARC OF LAKE COUNTY INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $36k

Funded once

  • HL
    HOOPS LIFE CARES INC
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue -98%
  • BC
    BEACON COLLEGE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +142%
  • SO
    SWEET ONION ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +4%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

6 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/6
Grantees still filing
5/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LAKE SUMTER CHILDRENS ADVOCACY: $74,890 · OtherLAKE SUMTER CHILDRENS ADVOCACYSUNRISE ARC OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $35,800 · OtherSUNRISE ARC OF LAKE COUNTY INCLAKE SUMTER STATE COLLEGE: $4,000 · Other+4 more: $4,959 · OtherFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHL…+1 more: $800 · Youth DevelopmentHUMANE SOCIETY OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $14,822 · AnimalsHUMANE SO…SWEET ONION ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY: $1,000 · AnimalsSWEET ONI…
Other$119,649Youth Development$45,800Animals$15,822

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $14,822 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetHOOPS LIFE CARES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBEACON COLLEGE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSWEET ONION ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFORWARD PATHS FOUNDATION INC: $800 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF LAKE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds HOOPS LIFE CARES INC ↗
  • Who funds BEACON COLLEGE INC ↗
  • Who funds SWEET ONION ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds FORWARD PATHS FOUNDATION INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kristin Pooh Mason Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kristin Pooh Mason Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Beacon College Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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