· Private foundation
Mason Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $9,600 |
| HOOD RIVER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $5,200 |
| READING RESULTS | $5,000 |
| OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & INDUSTRY | $4,800 |
| THRIVE HOOD RIVER | $4,000 |
| OREGON INDEPENDENT COLLEGE FND | $3,840 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| COMMUNITY VISION | $2,500 |
| UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE | $2,400 |
| FOREST HISTORY SOCIETY | $2,400 |
| TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $960 |
| RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $960 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $960 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY FORESTRY SCHOOL | $960 |
| PORTLAND ART MUSEUM | $960 |
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, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
17 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 5 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- OHOREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY8× · 2017–2025 · $84k · revenue +38%
OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY8× · 2017–2025 · $59k · revenue +29%
READING RESULTS5× · 2018–2025 · $20k · revenue +34%
Funded once
United Way of the Columbia-Willametteone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue -2%- BHBUILDING HEALTHY FAMILIESone grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +25%
- PRPACIFIC REFUGEE SUPPORT GROUPgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +128%
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.
Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…
Building a diverse grassroots movement to address the causes of climate disruption through justice-based solutions by inspiring, training and mobilizing people to act.
Women's foundation of oregon supports communities, programs, and individuals that improve the lives and opportunities of women and girls. we do this through direct grants, research, and policy advocacy.
Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…
Oregon research institute is an independent behavioral sciences research center dedicated to understanding human behavior and improving the quality of human life through the prevention and treatment of health, educational, and social…
Portland state university foundation is responsible for raising and managing private resources to advance psu's priorities and mission to be a leading urban university.
Ensuring the gorge remains a vibrant, living place wondrous, wild, and accessible for all is at the core of what we do. friends of the columbia gorge works to protect, preserve, and steward the columbia gorge for future generations.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
The purpose and mission of the foundation are, acting on its own or through affiliates, to support and assist the university of oregon in its activities by management and administration of foundation assets representing privately donated…
The oregon center for public policy's mission is to achieve economic justice for all oregonians through research, analysis, and advocacy. ocpp works to change policies that foster economic security and stability for all oregonians. we do…
Connecting people across oregon and the pacific northwest through the power of a shared story.
1000 friends of oregon promotes healthy working lands, great communities, shared prosperity, and strong democracy with and for all oregonians.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seeding Justice and the most unlike its peers is Pacific Northwest Hospice Foundation. 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 49 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 37 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 OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY ↗
- Who funds FOREST HISTORY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds READING RESULTS ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THRIVE HOOD RIVER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds United Way of the Columbia-Willamette ↗
- Who funds BUILDING HEALTHY FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC REFUGEE SUPPORT GROUP ↗
- Who funds NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds SEEDING JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds Oregon Justice Resource Center ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA GORGE EARTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC NORTHWEST HOSPICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Transition Projects Inc ↗
- Who funds CALL TO SAFETY ↗
- Who funds MACDONALD CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOOD RIVER COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDAT ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN WILLAMETTE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY VISION INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON SYMPHONY 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 Oregon Community Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Mason - Lee Trust · Ronald W Naito Md Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Jackson Foundation · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · United Way of the Columbia-Willamette
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 Charitable Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Community Vision Inc — 92% of income from government
- Call to Safety — 61% of income from government
- Building Healthy Families — 41% of income from government
- Transition Projects Inc — 29% of income from government
- Oregon Justice Resource Center — 26% of income from government
- United Way of the Columbia-Willamette — 25% of income from government
- New Avenues for Youth Inc — 20% of income from government
- Oregon Historical Society — 10% of income from government
- Oregon Museum of Science and Industry — 4% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Symphony Association — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Seeding Justice — 0% of income from government
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.