Wisconsin · Private foundation
Mason Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $48k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $9,600
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 14
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $789k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Mason Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $46k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $42k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $50k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $48k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $43k | 23% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $47k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $50k | 21% |
| FY2017 | 14 | $44k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon Historical Society | $83,716 | 8 | 0% |
| Oregon Museum of Science and Industry | $58,660 | 8 | 0% |
| Forest History Society Inc | $20,436 | 8 | 0% |
| Reading Results | $20,290 | 5 | 1% |
| Rutgers University Foundation | $9,300 | 8 | 0% |
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $7,964 | 8 | 0% |
| Thrive Hood River | $7,512 | 2 | 3% |
| Thrive | $7,395 | 2 | n/a |
| Portland Art Museum | $6,790 | 7 | 0% |
| Hood River County School District | $5,200 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon Historical Society | $83,716 | 8 | 0% |
| Oregon Museum of Science and Industry | $58,660 | 8 | 0% |
| Forest History Society Inc | $20,436 | 8 | 0% |
| Reading Results | $20,290 | 5 | 1% |
| Rutgers University Foundation | $9,300 | 8 | 0% |
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $7,964 | 8 | 0% |
| Thrive Hood River | $7,512 | 2 | 3% |
| Thrive | $7,395 | 2 | n/a |
| Portland Art Museum | $6,790 | 7 | 0% |
| Hood River County School District | $5,200 | 1 | n/a |
| United Way of the Columbia-Willamette | $4,196 | 1 | 0% |
| Building Healthy Families | $4,180 | 1 | 0% |
| Pacific Refugee Support Group | $4,180 | 1 | 0% |
| New Avenues for Youth Inc | $3,730 | 1 | 0% |
| Oregon Justice Resource Center | $3,715 | 1 | 0% |
| Columbia Gorge Earth Center | $3,700 | 1 | 5% |
| Pacific Northwest Hospice Foundation | $3,700 | 1 | n/a |
| Transition Projects Inc | $3,680 | 1 | 0% |
| Call to Safety | $3,520 | 1 | 1% |
| Macdonald Center | $3,520 | 1 | 0% |
| Hood River County Education Foundat | $3,512 | 1 | 0% |
| Girls on the Run Willamette Valley | $3,512 | 1 | n/a |
| Community Vision Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Trinity Episcopal Church | $2,294 | 2 | n/a |
| Oregon Symphony Association | $932 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($90k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mason Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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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: 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
How this is measured
About Mason Charitable Trust
- How much does Mason Charitable Trust give?
- Mason Charitable Trust reported 16 grants totaling $48,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Mason Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (25%), Education (25%), Science & Tech (15%).
- Who are Mason Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Oregon Historical Society ($84k), Oregon Museum of Science and Industry ($59k), Forest History Society Inc ($20k).
- Does Mason Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mason Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mason Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, The Collins Foundation, Meyer Memorial Trust.
- Where is Mason Charitable Trust based?
- Mason Charitable Trust is based in WI.
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