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Masek Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$190k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2024
19
Organizations funded FY2023
11%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$7,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
15 to 19
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
12
Total assets, FY2024
$2.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 11% of the organizations Masek Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesReligionInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving20$190k5%
FY202319$155k11%
FY202217$155k0%
FY202118$165k17%
FY202015$140k7%
FY201915$130k7%
FY201816$130k6%
FY201716$122kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$366kInternational$297kReligion$183kFood & Nutrition$174kHuman Services$80kHealth$73kPhilanthropy$15k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

OR
WY
SD
PA
CT
CA
CO
NE
VA
AZ
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cirrus House Inc$166,00081%
Haitian Health Foundation$162,00080%
Amos Health and Hope Inc$121,50082%
Food for the Poor Inc$118,00080%
Potters Wheel Inc$106,00086%
Bethlehem Holy Child Program$72,50084%
Siena Francis House$42,00080%
Matt Talbot Kitchen & Outreach$36,00070%
Benedictine Mission House$35,0008n/a
Abraham Project Inc$32,00062%
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All grantees of Masek Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cirrus House Inc$166,00081%
Haitian Health Foundation$162,00080%
Amos Health and Hope Inc$121,50082%
Food for the Poor Inc$118,00080%
Potters Wheel Inc$106,00086%
Bethlehem Holy Child Program$72,50084%
Siena Francis House$42,00080%
Matt Talbot Kitchen & Outreach$36,00070%
Benedictine Mission House$35,0008n/a
Abraham Project Inc$32,00062%
Lander Care and Share Food Bank$23,00081%
St Francis Mission$22,00040%
Casa Franciscana Outreach$20,0005n/a
Un Mundo$13,00023%
Northfield Haven Inc$4,00011%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($214k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Masek Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCirrus House Inc: $166,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetHaitian Health Foundation: $162,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetAmos Health and Hope Inc: $121,500 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetFood for the Poor Inc: $118,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPotters Wheel Inc: $106,000 over 8y, 5.8% of budgetBethlehem Holy Child Program: $72,500 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetSiena Francis House: $42,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMatt Talbot Kitchen & Outreach: $36,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetAbraham Project Inc: $32,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetLander Care and Share Food Bank: $23,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetSt Francis Mission: $22,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUn Mundo: $13,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetNorthfield Haven Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA6.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.

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How do I get to Masek Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Masek Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Masek Foundation

How much does Masek Foundation give?
Masek Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $190,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Masek Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (31%), International (25%), Religion (15%).
Who are Masek Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Cirrus House Inc ($166k), Haitian Health Foundation ($162k), Amos Health and Hope Inc ($122k).
Does Masek Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Masek Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Masek Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Masek Foundation based?
Masek Foundation is based in NE.

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 25 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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