· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY VISION | $3,120 |
| OSC PEO SISTERHOOD CHARITABLE TRUST | $3,120 |
| CITYTEAM MINISTRIES | $3,120 |
| NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH | $2,340 |
| OUTSIDE IN | $2,340 |
| THRIVE HOOD RIVER | $1,560 |
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 (FY25–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
16 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 5 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, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- TPTransition Projects Inc2× · 2021–2022 · $7k · revenue +35%
- HRHOOD RIVER COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDAT2× · 2021–2022 · $7k · revenue +3%
OUTSIDE IN2× · 2023–2025 · $6k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- CACOLUMBIA ARTSgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +33%
- HRHood River County School Districtone grant, 2023 · $4k
- ITIMAGO THEATREone grant, 2023 · $4k
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…
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
Cascades academy is an engaged, vibrant community that weaves challenging academics with experiential learning to inspire socially responsible individuals ready for a diverse and changing world.
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…
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…
Next up amplifies the voice of diverse youth to achieve a more just oregon
Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…
Open signal's mission is to nurture the change-making power of community media in service of a just and equitable world.
Building a diverse grassroots movement to address the causes of climate disruption through justice-based solutions by inspiring, training and mobilizing people to act.
Portland Public Library is a welcoming cultural center that brings people together and connects them with trusted resources, ideas, experiences, and information. We build a stronger community by inspiring learning, creativity, and…
Next up amplifies the voice and leadership of diverse young people to achieve a more just and equitable oregon.
Connecting people across oregon and the pacific northwest through the power of a shared story.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Historical Society and the most unlike its peers is Thrive Hood River. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 32 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 COMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Transition Projects Inc ↗
- Who funds HOOD RIVER COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDAT ↗
- Who funds OUTSIDE IN ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA ARTS ↗
- Who funds SEEDING JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds CITYTEAM MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY VISION INC ↗
- Who funds Oregon Justice Resource Center ↗
- Who funds OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY ↗
- Who funds United Way of the Columbia-Willamette ↗
- Who funds NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds CATLIN GABEL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THRIVE HOOD RIVER ↗
- Who funds OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
- 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 · 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
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 - 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.
- Community Vision Inc — 92% of income from government
- Outside in — 33% 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
- Columbia Arts — 8% of income from government
- Community Transitional School — 7% of income from government
- Oregon Museum of Science and Industry — 4% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Symphony Association — 0% of income from government
- Seeding Justice — 0% of income from government
- Catlin Gabel School — 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.