How much did MASON - LEE TRUST grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 65% of MASON - LEE TRUST’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$400

Median grant

States reached

$362k

Total assets

Largest grants

UNITED WAY OF COLUMBIA-WILLAMETTE$1,000
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCES FOUNDATION$1,000
OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & INDUSTRY$600
OR ALLIANCE OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES$600
CATLIN GABEL SCHOOL$400
OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY$200
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM$200
OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION$200
WELLESLEY COLLEGE$200

02The need

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 7%. 99% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$55k · 16 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$55k

$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%

+502%

Still filing today

56%

18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther

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

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COMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL
2× · 2021–2022 · $11k · revenue +17%
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TRANSITION PROJECTS
2× · 2021–2022 · $7k · revenue +98%
HR
HOOD RIVER COUNTY EDUCATION FDN
2× · 2021–2022 · $7k · revenue +124%

Funded once

OUTSIDE INgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +65%
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IMAGO THEATRE
one grant, 2023 · $4k
HR
HOOD RIVER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT
one grant, 2023 · $4k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Portland Museum of Art

Museum/Educational

Arts & Culture

Oregon Research Institute

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…

Social Science

Oregon Health & Science University

Ohsuf is a nonprofit organization established in 1970 dedicated to secure private philanthropic support for ohsu and to invest and manage gifts responsibly in accordance with donors' wishes.

Education

University of Portland

The University of Portland, an independently governed Catholic university guided by the Congregation of Holy Cross, addresses significant questions of human concern through interdisciplinary studies of the arts, sciences, and humanities…

Education

Oregon Energy Systems Technology and Research Alliance

Environment

Oregon Public Broadcasting

Connecting people across oregon and the pacific northwest through the power of a shared story.

Arts & Culture

Portland Ovations

Portland ovations propels the artistic, social, educational and economic wellbeing of communitites through the power of the performing arts.

Arts & Culture

Oregon Music Education Association

To Enhance Education of Youth in Oregon.

Arts & Culture

Portland Museum Inc

Portland museum is an innovative and compelling neighborhood museum. the museum boldly weaves exhibitions, performances, collections, and educational programs to excite, challenge and illuminate our neighbors, visitors, and participants…

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Earth Day Oregon

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University of Oregon Foundation

In support of the foundation's mission, staff endeavor to positively impact society by supporting the university of oregon's mission of education, research and entrepreneurship through exemplary stewardship of relationships and resources.

Education

Oregon Society of American Foresters

The Oregon Society of American Foresters has 708members in twelve professional chapters and three student chapters throughout Oregon. The Oregon Society of American Foresters is the largest state affiliate of the National Society of…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Symphony Association and the most unlike its peers is Wellesley College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

12/12

Grantees still filing

10/12

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$54,806Education$19,485Arts & Culture$5,174Civil Rights$2,838Philanthropy$1,868

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.

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.

The Oregon Community FoundationOR20.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Mason Charitable Trust · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · The Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care · Oregon Jewish Community Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · Juan Young Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations

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 organisation MASON - LEE 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.

2024

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1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HOOD RIVER COUNTY EDUCATION FDN.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~14 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 931093479 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on HOOD RIVER COUNTY EDUCATION FDN, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 14 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 11% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Mason - Lee Trust?

Find your warmest path to Mason - Lee Trust through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MASON - LEE TRUST

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Mason - Lee Trust?

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MASON - LEE TRUST

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Mason - Lee Trust?

More from the funding graph