· Private foundation
NCMA Education Research Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Concrete Masonry & Hardscapes Association | $12,500 |
| Concrete Masonry & Hardscapes Association | $12,430 |
| Arizona Masonry Council | $7,500 |
| Bowling Green State University | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 52% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 10% of NCMA Education Research Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 16 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY2× · 2018–2019 · $80k · revenue +40%- CMConcrete Masonry and Hardscape Association3× · 2023–2025 · $76k · revenue +21%
- AMARIZONA MASONRY COUNCIL2× · 2023–2025 · $29k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- MUMISSOURI UNIVERSITY S&Tone grant, 2017 · $110k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $90k
- EIENSOLTECH INCone grant, 2019 · $70k
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.
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.
To improve, promote and service the masonry construction industry in hawaii.
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…
To advance the masonry industry through quality workmanship, education, and training to mason contractors.
To provide service, leadership, education, and promotion in support of its members and the masonry field.
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, its core values include leadership,…
The masonry institute of michigan inc. is dedicated to the promotion and advancement of the masonry industry. the institute provides information to the industry and public, indiscriminately. the institute's goal is to promote quality…
School based on masonry skills
Improve and expand the uses of cement and concrete which, by doing so, improves the quality of construction which contributes to a better environment. in practice, this mandate means well-rounded programs of market development, education,…
To promote the uses of metal buildings, deal with technical and trade promotional problems pertinent to the industry, publish information of benefit to the industry, and to promote the maintenance of standard specifications.
The national maintenance agreements policy committee negotiates and administers the national maintenance agreements, a series of collective bargaining agreements utilized by more than 1,700 industrial contractors who employ members of…
Rocky Mountain MCA serves the unique needs of mechanical, plumbing and HVACR trade associations and contractor companies in Colorado. The Rocky Mountain MCA team has more than 25 years of combined leadership in managing and engaging…
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 76 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: The Masonry Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization NCMA Education Research Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from NCMA Education Research Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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