Minnesota · Private foundation
Mason - Lee Trust
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.
- $16k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,120
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,120
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 13
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $335k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Mason - Lee Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 6 | $16k | 83% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $4k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $21k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $22k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $18k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $14k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Transitional School | $10,857 | 2 | 0% |
| Hood River County Education Foundat | $7,304 | 2 | 11% |
| Transition Projects Inc | $7,304 | 2 | 0% |
| Outside In | $5,875 | 2 | 0% |
| Hood River County School District | $3,535 | 1 | n/a |
| Columbia Arts | $3,535 | 1 | 2% |
| Community Vision Inc | $3,120 | 1 | 0% |
| Cityteam Ministries | $3,120 | 1 | 0% |
| Oregon Justice Resource Center | $2,838 | 1 | 0% |
| Oregon Museum of Science and Industry | $2,775 | 5 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Transitional School | $10,857 | 2 | 0% |
| Hood River County Education Foundat | $7,304 | 2 | 11% |
| Transition Projects Inc | $7,304 | 2 | 0% |
| Outside In | $5,875 | 2 | 0% |
| Hood River County School District | $3,535 | 1 | n/a |
| Columbia Arts | $3,535 | 1 | 2% |
| Community Vision Inc | $3,120 | 1 | 0% |
| Cityteam Ministries | $3,120 | 1 | 0% |
| Oregon Justice Resource Center | $2,838 | 1 | 0% |
| Oregon Museum of Science and Industry | $2,775 | 5 | 0% |
| United Way of the Columbia-Willamette | $2,755 | 3 | 0% |
| New Avenues for Youth Inc | $2,340 | 1 | 0% |
| Catlin Gabel School | $1,850 | 5 | 0% |
| Thrive Hood River | $1,560 | 1 | 1% |
| Oregon Historical Society | $924 | 5 | 0% |
| Wellesley College | $924 | 5 | 0% |
| Portland Art Museum | $924 | 5 | 0% |
| Oregon Symphony Association | $551 | 3 | 0% |
| Thrive | $405 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($32k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mason - Lee 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 · Mason Charitable Trust · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Ford Family Foundation · The Collins Foundation · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · Ronald W Naito Md Foundation · Juan Young Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust
How this is measured
About Mason - Lee Trust
- How much does Mason - Lee Trust give?
- Mason - Lee Trust reported 6 grants totaling $15,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Mason - Lee Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (32%), Arts & Culture (13%), Health (13%).
- Who are Mason - Lee Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Community Transitional School ($11k), Hood River County Education Foundat ($7k), Transition Projects Inc ($7k).
- Does Mason - Lee Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mason - Lee Trust 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 - Lee Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, Mason Charitable Trust, Meyer Memorial Trust.
- Where is Mason - Lee Trust based?
- Mason - Lee Trust is based in MN.
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