· Private foundation
M L Mason Memorial Fund Sch B
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 $10k9 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $292k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEST PENN ALLEGHENY HEALTH SYSTEM | $233,442 |
| KINGSLEY ASSOCIATION | $58,360 |
| BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS | $46,688 |
| HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE | $23,344 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH | $11,672 |
| PRESBYTERIAN SENIORCARE | $11,672 |
| YWCA GREATER PITTSBURGH | $11,672 |
| WESTMINSTER COLLEGE | $11,672 |
| ST BARNABAS NURSING HOME INC | $11,672 |
| FORBES REGIONAL HOSPITAL | $11,672 |
| UPMC COMMUNITY PROVIDER SERVICES | $8,754 |
| BOARD OF PENSIONS OF THE | $5,836 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,836 |
| ST MARGARET FOUNDATION | $5,836 |
| WESTERN PA SCHOOL FOR BLIND | $5,836 |
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, $214k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
24 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 5 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
- TKTHE KINGSLEY ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2025 · $449k · revenue +53%
- HAHUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE6× · 2020–2025 · $139k · revenue +35%
- WCWESTMINSTER COLLEGE8× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- ANAGH NON-PATIENT PAYMENTSone grant, 2017 · $213k
- WPWEST PENN ALLEGHENY HLTH SYSTEMone grant, 2020 · $202k
- TWTHE WEST PENN HOSPITAL FDNone grant, 2018 · $193k
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 Organization provides in-home medical services for older or disabled adults to meet health/security needs. Through its Medicare certified Home Health Agency, Presbyterian SeniorCare at Home provides skilled nursing, physical and…
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…
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.
An esteemed short-stay & long-term skilled nursing facility with rehabilitation, dementia & hospice services that serves persons of all incomes & is committed to excellence & person-centered care.
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.
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.
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…
To be a compassionate, inclusive faith-inspired network of communities and services committed to enhancing the quality of life of older adults.Presbyterian Homes is a part of the Presbyterian SeniorCare network of facilities.
Wayne woodlands manor is committed to serve its community, patients, families, and co-workers in a tradition of high-quality, cost-effective care dedicated to its core values of compassion, advocacy, respect, excellence, and service. (see…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Margaret Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 32 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 HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ST BARNABAS NURSING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds Presbyterian SeniorCare ↗
- Who funds MARS HOME FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BREATHE PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds ST MARGARET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Presbyterian Seniorcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH 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: M L Mason Mem Fund 12-26-35 · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Mason Martha Lockhart · The Jack Buncher Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Hillman Family Foundations · 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 M L Mason Memorial Fund Sch B 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.