Missouri · Private foundation
Mason Ave Family 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.
- $932k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2024
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 25
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $18M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 35% of the organizations Mason Ave Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $360k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 20 | $932k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $997k | 35% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $1.0M | 44% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $1.0M | 27% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $900k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $878k | 60% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $334k | 62% |
| FY2017 | 19 | $96k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Journeys of Hope | $1,075,000 | 5 | 100% |
| Holy Redeemer Catholic Church | $602,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Angels' Arms | $365,000 | 6 | 18% |
| St Louis University High School | $330,000 | 5 | n/a |
| St Louis Police Foundation | $200,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Operation Food Search Inc | $180,871 | 5 | 0% |
| Extreme St Louis Charitable Foundation | $130,000 | 1 | n/a |
| G&G Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| National Spasmodic Dysphonia Association | $100,000 | 1 | 4% |
| World Links Association Inc | $57,915 | 3 | 9% |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Mason Ave Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Edward Jones Foundation · The Bellwether Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Roman Catholic Foundation of Eastern Missouri · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Berges Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Mason Ave Family Foundation
- How much does Mason Ave Family Foundation give?
- Mason Ave Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $932,045 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Mason Ave Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (38%), Human Services (30%), Religion (14%).
- Who are Mason Ave Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Journeys of Hope ($1.1M), Holy Redeemer Catholic Church ($602k), Angels' Arms ($365k).
- Does Mason Ave Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mason Ave Family 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 Mason Ave Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, Youthbridge Community Foundation, Moneta Group Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Mason Ave Family Foundation based?
- Mason Ave Family Foundation is based in MO.
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