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Mason - Lee Trust at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$32kArts & Culture$13kHealth$13kEnvironment$13kHousing & Shelter$10kPhilanthropy$8kReligion$6kCrime & Legal$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,120
Median grant
1
States reached
$335k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OSC PEO SISTERHOOD CHARITABLE TRUST$3,120
CITYTEAM MINISTRIES$3,120
COMMUNITY VISION$3,120
OUTSIDE IN$2,340
NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH$2,340
THRIVE HOOD RIVER$1,560
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%COMMUNITY VISION: $3k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$59k · 16 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
9

Total granted

$59k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+215%

Still filing today

69%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationCivil RightsPhilanthropyHuman ServicesReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HR
    HOOD RIVER COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDAT
    2× · 2021–2022 · $7k · revenue +3%
  • TP
    Transition Projects Inc
    2× · 2021–2022 · $7k · revenue +35%
  • OUTSIDE IN
    2× · 2023–2025 · $6k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • IT
    IMAGO THEATRE
    one grant, 2023 · $4k
  • HR
    Hood River County School District
    one grant, 2023 · $4k
  • CA
    COLUMBIA ARTSgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +33%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Oregon Justice Network

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…

Human Services
2
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
3
Cascades Academy of Central Oregon

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.

Education
4
Oregon Center for Public Policy

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…

Employment
5
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
6
New Progressive Network

Next up amplifies the voice of diverse youth to achieve a more just oregon

Civil Rights
7
Rogue Climate

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 &…

Education
8
Portland Community Media

Open signal's mission is to nurture the change-making power of community media in service of a just and equitable world.

Arts & Culture
9
350PDX

Building a diverse grassroots movement to address the causes of climate disruption through justice-based solutions by inspiring, training and mobilizing people to act.

Environment
10
Portland Public Library

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…

Education
11
Oregon Progress Forum

Next up amplifies the voice and leadership of diverse young people to achieve a more just and equitable oregon.

Environment
12
Oregon Public Broadcasting

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

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Historical Society; 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.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDS OREGON: $11,055 · OtherTRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDS OREGONTransition Projects Inc: $7,304 · OtherTransition Projects IncOUTSIDE IN: $5,875 · OtherOUTSIDE INOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCES FOUNDATION: $3,661 · OtherOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCES FOUNDATIONIMAGO THEATRE: $3,535 · OtherIMAGO THEATREHood River County School District: $3,535 · OtherHood River County School DistrictARBOR SCHOOL: $3,376 · OtherARBOR SCHOOLCROSSROADS CARNEGIE ART CENTER: $3,275 · OtherCROSSROADS CARNEGIE ART CENTEROSC PEO SISTERHOOD CHARITABLE TRUST: $3,120 · OtherOSC PEO SISTERHOOD CHARITABLE TRUSTNEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC: $2,340 · Other+6 more: $4,515 · Other+6 moreCOMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL: $10,857 · EducationCOMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL …HOOD RIVER COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDAT: $7,304 · EducationHOOD RIVER COUNTY EDUCA…CATLIN GABEL SCHOOL: $1,850 · EducationCATLIN GABEL SCHOOLWellesley College: $924 · EducationCOLUMBIA ARTS: $3,535 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBIA …OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY: $2,775 · Arts & CultureOREGON MU…OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $924 · Arts & CultureOREGON HI…PORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $924 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND …OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $551 · Arts & CultureOREGON SY…SEEDING JUSTICE: $3,275 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of the Columbia-Willamette: $2,755 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $1,868 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY VISION INC: $3,120 · Human ServicesCITYTEAM MINISTRIES: $3,120 · ReligionOregon Justice Resource Center: $2,838 · Civil RightsTHRIVE HOOD RIVER: $1,560 · Community Improvement
Other$51,591Education$20,935Arts & Culture$8,709Philanthropy$7,898Human Services$3,120Religion$3,120Civil Rights$2,838Community Improvement$1,560

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL: $10,857 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHOOD RIVER COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDAT: $7,304 over 2y, 11% of budgetTransition Projects Inc: $7,304 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOUTSIDE IN: $5,875 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA ARTS: $3,535 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSEEDING JUSTICE: $3,275 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY VISION INC: $3,120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITYTEAM MINISTRIES: $3,120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOregon Justice Resource Center: $2,838 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY: $2,775 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of the Columbia-Willamette: $2,755 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC: $2,340 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $1,868 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATLIN GABEL SCHOOL: $1,850 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHRIVE HOOD RIVER: $1,560 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $924 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College: $924 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $924 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $551 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds COMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds HOOD RIVER COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDAT ↗
  • Who funds Transition Projects Inc ↗
  • Who funds OUTSIDE IN ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBIA ARTS ↗
  • Who funds SEEDING JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY VISION INC ↗
  • Who funds CITYTEAM MINISTRIES ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

The Oregon Community …Mason Charitable TrustMeyer Memorial TrustThe Ford Family Found…The Collins FoundationThe Harold & Arlene S…Ronald W Naito Md Fou…Juan Young TrustOCF Joseph E Weston P…The Roundhouse Founda…Hillman Family Founda…Marie Lamfrom Charita…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR25.9× affinity11 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 · 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mason - Lee Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mason - Lee Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home