· Private foundation
M L Mason Mem Fund 12-26-35
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
- $10k–50k23 grants · $455k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $390k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEST PENN ALLEGHENY HEALTH SYSTEM | $1,278,446 |
| KINGSLEY ASSOCIATION | $108,343 |
| YWCA GREATER PITTSBURGH | $86,674 |
| YMCA OF GREATER PITTSBURGH | $65,006 |
| EASTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $65,006 |
| HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE | $65,006 |
| ST BARNABAS NURSING HOME INC | $43,337 |
| PRESBYTERIAN SENIORCARE | $43,337 |
| FORBES REGIONAL HOSPITAL | $43,337 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH | $32,503 |
| WESTMINSTER COLLEGE | $32,503 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $21,669 |
| WESLEY FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION | $21,669 |
| UPMC HEALTH UPMC MERCY | $21,669 |
| UPMC COMMUNITY PROVIDER SERVICES | $21,669 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% 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.
38 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 12 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- TKTHE KINGSLEY ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $829k · revenue +53%
- HAHUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE5× · 2021–2025 · $378k · revenue +9%
- PSPresbyterian SeniorCare8× · 2018–2025 · $298k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- WPWEST PENN ALLEGHENY HLTH SYSTEMone grant, 2020 · $963k
- PSPresbyterian Seniorcare Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $34k · revenue +57%
- ANAGH NON-PATIENT PAYMENTSone grant, 2017 · $17k
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.
Wrc pennsylvania memorial home's mission is to provide choices for generations. built on a not-for-profit foundation of caring, the organization offers residential and personal care, home and community-based services, skilled and…
Highlands hospital is committed to providing health care to the community in a competent, nurturing and healing environment. our staff will provide support in times of crisis and furnish the resources necessary to promote a healthy…
The mission of upmc western maryland is to serve our community by providing outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health system through clinical & technological innovation, research and education.
We, pittsburgh mercy health system (pittsburgh mercy) and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. pittsburgh mercy is a member of trinity…
The mission of penn highlands mon valley is to enhance the health of the residents of the mid-monongahela valley area by providing outstanding healthcare services.
Our community-based and controlled health care system exists to improve regional access to a wide array of premier primary care and advanced health services while supporting a reverence for life and the worth and dignity of each individual.
Penn state health hampden medical center's mission is to continually improve the health and well-being of the people in pennsylvania. the organization provides patients with excellent, compassionate and culturally responsive and equitable…
The mission of penn state health holy spirit medical center is to nurture the healing ministry of the church, supported by education and research. fidelity to the gospel urges us to emphasize human dignity and social justice as we create…
It is the mission of wayne memorial hospital to provide quality healthcare with compassion, advocacy, respect, excellence, and service; to promote wellness in our community; and to be proactive in responding to our community's needs.
UPMC Williamsport is a subsidiary of UPMC Susquehanna. The mission of UPMC Susquehanna and its subsidiaries is to serve the community by providing outstanding patient care and shaping tomorrow's health care through clinical and…
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
We heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value supported by education and clinical research.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Passavant Memorial Homes and the most unlike its peers is American Humane Association. 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 43 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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 48 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 THE KINGSLEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds ST BARNABAS NURSING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Presbyterian SeniorCare ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BREATHE PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds WESLEY FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARS HOME FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PASSAVANT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PASSAVANT MEMORIAL HOMES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE VALLEY HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds VISABILITY ↗
- Who funds EYE AND EAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Presbyterian Seniorcare 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: The Pittsburgh Foundation · M L Mason Memorial Fund Sch B · Mason Martha Lockhart · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Lockhart James H & Florence D · Hillman Family Foundations · Edward E Rieck Charitable Trust · Brooks Charles for Charities · McCune Foundation Pnc Bank Na · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Mario Lemieux Foundation · Fisa 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 M L Mason Mem Fund 12-26-35 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.