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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.

$487k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$233k
Largest
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$2.2MYouth Development$449kReligion$239kHuman Services$225kEducation$180kAnimals$180kInternational$116kMembership Benefit$45kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $140k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $292k
$11,672
Median grant
2
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEST PENN ALLEGHENY HEALTH SYSTEM$233,442
KINGSLEY ASSOCIATION$58,360
BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS$46,688
HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE$23,344
ST BARNABAS NURSING HOME INC$11,672
PRESBYTERIAN SENIORCARE$11,672
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH$11,672
FORBES REGIONAL HOSPITAL$11,672
YWCA GREATER PITTSBURGH$11,672
WESTMINSTER COLLEGE$11,672
UPMC COMMUNITY PROVIDER SERVICES$8,754
Individual grant recipient$5,836
BREATHE PENNSYLVANIA$5,836
ST MARGARET FOUNDATION$5,836
WESTERN PA SCHOOL FOR BLIND$5,836
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MARS HOME FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION: $6k → 9%MARS HOME FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION: $6k → 9%MARS HOME FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION: $6k → 9%MARS HOME FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION: $6k → 9%MARS HOME FOR YOUTH FDN: $5k → 9%MARS HOME FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%MARS HOME FOR YOUTH FDN: $5k → 9%MARS HOME FOR YOUTH FDN: $5k → 9%PRESBYTERIAN SENIORCARE: $13k → 11%PRESBYTERIAN SENIORCARE: $12k → 11%PRESBYTERIAN SENIORCARE: $12k → 11%PRESBYTERIAN SENIORCARE: $12k → 11%PRESBYTERIAN SENIORCARE: $11k → 11%PRESBYTERIAN SENIORCARE: $10k → 11%PRESBYTERIAN SENIORCARE: $10k → 11%YWCA GREATER PITTSBURGH: $12k → 11%YWCA GREATER PITTSBURGH: $12k → 11%YWCA GREATER PITTSBURGH: $12k → 11%YWCA GREATER PITTSBURGH: $13k → 11%YWCA GREATER PITTSBURGH: $11k → 11%YWCA GREATER PITTSBURGH: $11k → 11%YWCA GREATER PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%YWCA GREATER PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 24 repeat orgs$655k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
8

Total granted

$3.1M
$655k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+57%

Still filing today

42%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterAnimalsOther
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

  • TK
    THE KINGSLEY ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $449k · revenue +53%
  • HA
    HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $139k · revenue +35%
  • WC
    WESTMINSTER COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • AN
    AGH NON-PATIENT PAYMENTS
    one grant, 2017 · $213k
  • WP
    WEST PENN ALLEGHENY HLTH SYSTEM
    one grant, 2020 · $202k
  • TW
    THE WEST PENN HOSPITAL FDN
    one grant, 2018 · $193k
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Wrc Pennsylvania Memorial Home

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…

Health
2
Highlands Hospital

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…

Health
3
Presbyterian SeniorCare at Home Inc

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…

Health
4
Upmc Western Maryland Corporation

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.

Health
5
Pittsburgh Mercy Health System Inc

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…

Health
6
Penn Highlands Healthcare Inc

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.

Health
7
The Presbyterian Medical Center of Washington Pennsylvania Inc

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.

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8
Monongahela Valley Hospital Inc

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.

Health
9
Wayne Memorial Hospital

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.

Health
10
Penn State Health Holy Spirit Medical Center

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…

Health
11
Presbyterian Homes in the Presbytery of Lake Erie

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.

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12
Wayne Memorial Long Term Care Inc

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Margaret Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HIGHMARK HEALTH: $1,187,795 · OtherHIGHMARK HEALTHTHE KINGSLEY ASSOCIATION: $449,217 · OtherTHE KINGSLEY ASSOCIATIONAGH NON-PATIENT PAYMENTS: $213,381 · OtherAGH NON-PATIENT PAYMENTSWEST PENN ALLEGHENY HLTH SYSTEM: $202,432 · OtherWEST PENN ALLEGHENY HLTH SYSTEMTHE WEST PENN HOSPITAL FDN: $193,263 · OtherTHE WEST PENN HOSPITAL FDNEASTMINSTER PRESBY CHURCH: $183,180 · OtherEASTMINSTER PRESBY CHURCHBOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS: $115,774 · Other+14 more: $549,837 · Other+14 moreYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION GREATER PITTSBURGH: $89,843 · Human ServicesPresbyterian SeniorCare: $79,174 · Human ServicesMARS HOME FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION: $44,923 · Human ServicesST BARNABAS NURSING HOME INC: $89,843 · HealthBREATHE PENNSYLVANIA: $44,923 · HealthST MARGARET FOUNDATION: $34,756 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $10,122 · HealthHUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE: $139,022 · AnimalsWESTMINSTER COLLEGE: $89,843 · EducationWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF: $44,923 · EducationPresbyterian Seniorcare Foundation: $10,669 · Housing & Shelter
Other$3,094,879Human Services$213,940Health$179,644Animals$139,022Education$134,766Housing & Shelter$10,669

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE KINGSLEY ASSOCIATION: $449,217 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetHUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE: $139,022 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWESTMINSTER COLLEGE: $89,843 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetST BARNABAS NURSING HOME INC: $89,843 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION GREATER PITTSBURGH: $89,843 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetPresbyterian SeniorCare: $79,174 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF: $44,923 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBREATHE PENNSYLVANIA: $44,923 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetMARS HOME FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION: $44,923 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetST MARGARET FOUNDATION: $34,756 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPresbyterian Seniorcare Foundation: $10,669 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $10,122 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF ↗
  • Who funds BREATHE PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds MARS HOME FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST MARGARET FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Presbyterian Seniorcare Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗

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.

M L Mason Mem Fund 12-26-35PA28.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 M L Mason Memorial Fund Sch B funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from M L Mason Memorial Fund Sch B. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 32 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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