How much did NCMA Education Research Foundation grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 90% of NCMA Education Research Foundation’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.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

onlineassessmentcmuconstructionmasonry

2019

manufactureddesign softwareprismrecalibrationunitsheslip scholarshiplenchuk scholarship

2020

masonry

2021

paul helenlenchukhelenlenchuk engineeringcompetition recipientsstudent scholarshipengineering studentjohn marlenemarlene heslip

2022

concrete masonrypaul helenhelen lenchuklenchuk engineeringstudent scholarshipsrwengineering student

2023

developingcmhadesign standardstudent scholarshippaul helenhelen lenchuklenchuk engineering

2024

student scholarshippaul helenhelen lenchuklenchuk engineeringmasonry designjohn marlenemarlene heslip

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k9 grants · $40k
$10k–50k1 grant · $11k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$10M

Total assets

Largest grants

Concrete Masonry & Hardscapes Association$11,100
The Masonry Society$7,500
Chanel Vinet$5,000
Jaiden Shea$5,000
Tyler Kleinsasser$5,000
Meaghan Booth$5,000
Devon Golden$5,000
Northwest Concrete Masonry Association$4,000
Bowling Green State University$2,000
Masonry Institute of St Louis$1,925

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 8%. 52% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 8% of NCMA Education Research Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

NCMA Education Research Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 6.7% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$765k · 18 repeat orgs$941k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$765k

$936k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%

+46%

Still filing today

28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationEmploymentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
2× · 2018–2019 · $80k · revenue +23%
CM
Concrete Masonry & Hardscapes Association
2× · 2023–2024 · $39k · revenue +137%
TM
The Masonry Society
2× · 2017–2024 · $27k · revenue +2%

Funded once

MU
MISSOURI UNIVERSITY S&T
one grant, 2017 · $110k
EE
ECE ERDOGMUS SKOURUP
one grant, 2019 · $90k
EI
ENSOLTECH INC
one grant, 2019 · $70k

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.

Masonry Construction Industry

To improve, promote and service the masonry construction industry in hawaii.

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Mason Contractors Association

To advance the masonry industry through quality workmanship, education, and training to mason contractors.

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Masonry Institute of Iowa

To provide service, leadership, education, and promotion in support of its members and the masonry field.

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The Minnesota Concrete & Masonry

To promote and encourage higher standards in the concrete and masonry industry and to promote the mutual advancement and welfare of the members of the industry by engaging in education and programs on an industry-wide basis as to maintain…

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American Concrete Institute

Aci advances knowledge of concrete and its uses.

Science & Tech

Masonry Industry Advancement Fund

Promotion of the masonry industry.

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Masonic Homes of California

The masonic homes of california promotes the quality of life (continued on sch. o)by empowering our members, their families and the outside communities with residential care, care management and support as well as mental health services.

Human Services

Metal Building Manufacturers Association

To promote the uses of metal buildings, deal with technical and trade (continued on scedule o) promotional problems pertinent to the industry, publish information of benefit to the industry, and to promote the maintenance of standard…

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Masonry Institute of Oregon

Promotion, education, counsel and distribution of technical information to architects, engineers, and design professionals, for the improvement of the masonry and ceramic tile industry.

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Natural Stone Institute

See schedule o for complete description.the natural stone institute's mission statement is: to lead, support, and promote a unified natural stone industry through authoritive information, education, standards, and advocacy. additionally,…

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Maine School of Masonry

School based on masonry skills

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Associated Schools of Construction

ASC is a professional association for the development and advancement of construction.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arizona Masonry Council and the most unlike its peers is Syracuse University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

06the 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)

11/12

Grantees still filing

7/12

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,530,599Education$125,457Employment$29,500Community Improvement$21,000

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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation NCMA Education Research Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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: MASONRY ASSOCIATION OF FLORIDA.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~7 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 592855963 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 MASONRY ASSOCIATION OF FLORIDA, 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 7 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 6% 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 NCMA Education Research Foundation?

Find your warmest path to NCMA Education Research Foundation 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.

NCMA Education Research Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

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 NCMA Education Research Foundation?

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NCMA Education Research Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

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 NCMA Education Research Foundation?

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