· Private foundation
Mason and Lula Cole Charitable Tua 600008015
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 $10k25 grants · $123k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $129k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Northern Neck - Middlesex Free Health | $15,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE | $15,000 |
| SMITH POINT SEA RESCUE INC | $15,000 |
| WESTMORELAND PLAYERS | $14,000 |
| THE HAVEN SHELTER AND SERVICES INC | $10,000 |
| HAMPDEN SYDNEY COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| LANCASTER COUNTY VA EDUCATION FDN | $10,000 |
| HEALTHY HARVEST FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| RAPPAHANNOCK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS | $10,000 |
| YOUTH CLUB OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC | $10,000 |
| RAPPAHANNOCK ART LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| STEAMBOAT ERA MUSEUM | $9,000 |
| THE RWC FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| GREATER REEDVILLE ASSOCIATION INC | $8,000 |
| LANCASTER COMMUNITY LIBRARY | $8,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +81% since the first grant, against +66% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- TWTHE WESTMORELAND PLAYERS9× · 2017–2025 · $143k · revenue +44%
- SPSMITH POINT SEA RESCUE9× · 2017–2025 · $133k · revenue +120%
- HHHEALTHY HARVEST FOOD BANK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- THTHE HAVEN SHELTERone grant, 2017 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
- DFDREAM FIELDS DBA YOUTH CLUBone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
Care and placement of unwanted animals on the eastern shore of virginia servicing accomack and northampton counties. providing temporary lodging and care to animals until placed while encouraging spaying and neutering.
Preservation and promotion of the history, traditions, and culture of westmoreland county, virginia and preservation of historical records of the county.
Promoting for the benefit of the general public, the preservation, protection and enjoyment of our natural resources, principally in the lower james, york, rappahannock and chowan rivers and surrounding watersheds.
The society serves as the center for chesterfield county history. our mission is to collect, preserve, interpret and promote the countys unique past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations
Chesapeake Cats and Dogs CCAD is a lifetime haven and no-kill animal rescue organization dedicated to rehabilitating and providing a second chance for cats and dogs that have been abandoned, abused, lost, strayed, or surrendered.
The mission of the Suffolk-Nansemond Historical Society is to collect, preserve, interpret and promote awareness of the history and culture of Suffolk and old Nansemond County for the education and enjoyment of present and future…
To collect, preserve, and share local chesapeake history celebrating the culture around the chesapeake bay - past, present, and future - through oral histories, collections, exhibitions, and community outreach.
The organization is dedicated to preserving and promoting the wooden boatbuilding heritage of maryland's eastern shore with a museum and a wooden boatbuilding center.
Providing for animal welfare through rescue, education, and adoption in Frederick County Maryland.
Humane treatment of animals
To provide free public health and nursing care within Lunenburg County, Virginia.
Volunteer rescue squad - westmoreland county, va
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rappahannock Art League and the most unlike its peers is Bay Triangle Trail. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 26. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% 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 9% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 59 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 NORTHERN NECK-MIDDLESEX FREE HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE WESTMORELAND PLAYERS ↗
- Who funds SMITH POINT SEA RESCUE ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY HARVEST FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER COUNTY VIRGINIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HAVEN SHELTER AND SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Chesapeake Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds RAPPAHANNOCK ART LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds LINK INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds STEAMBOAT ERA MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN NECK ORCHESTRA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID WORKS ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN NECK LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Rappahannock Concert Association Inc ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds GARFIELD S RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds BAY TRIANGLE TRAIL ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE OF THE NORTHERN NECK INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER REEDVILLE ASSOCIATION ↗
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 Community Foundation Inc · The Nettie L and Charles L Wiley Foundation · Weston F Jr and Dorothy C Conley Family Charitable Foundation · Lancaster County Lions Foundation Inc · Ben Conley Charitable & Education Foundation · The Revere Family Foundation · Jessie Ball duPont Religious Charitable & Educational Fund · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Mason and Lula Cole Charitable Tua 600008015 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.