· Private foundation
Roman-Mason Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k9 grants · $4k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $16,666 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY - | $1,000 |
| MINING & MECHANICAL INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $500 |
| GREATER HAZLETON HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $500 |
| HAZLETON ANIMAL SHELTER | $350 |
| UNITED CHARITIES | $300 |
| CAMP CADET TROOP N | $250 |
| HAZLETON SALVATION ARMY | $250 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF GREATER HAZLETON | $250 |
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 (FY17–26, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2026, 5 since wound down.
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 FY2026, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- GHGREATER HAZLETON HISTORICAL SOCIETY10× · 2017–2026 · $7k · revenue +53%
- CCCAMP CADET TROOP N10× · 2017–2026 · $4k · revenue +26%
- UCUNITED CHARITIES OF HAZLETON INC10× · 2017–2026 · $3k · revenue ×42
Funded once
- MTMINSI TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA TRUSTgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $300 · revenue +229%
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS OF GEATER HAZLETONone grant, 2022 · $250
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.
Providing cemetery and mausoleum facilities
Provide food shelter and care (including veterinary care) to homeless animals of the greater hazleton area.
--to provide training and therapy services for disabled children and adults in luzerne, schuylkill, and carbon counties in pennsylvania.
Provides a repository of significant items relating to the history of zelienople pa and makes such items available to the public.
The greater hazleton senior citizens service facilitates the operations of a senior center on broad street in hazleton. our organization manages the center and strives to improve the quality of life for our area's aging residents.
To inform, enlighten, and entertain all people living in the hazletonarea communities by providing access to books, programs, and materialsthat foster community spirit, learning, and growth.
Promote community businesses, improve business climate, public relations, and quality of life in greater hazleton
To distribute funds to harvard university for use as scholarships in their summer internship program
Preservation of historical memorabilia - town of Hadley MA
To collect and preserve historical material and artifacts, to encourage research into local history and to offer historical education opportunities to the community
Collect, preserve, and promote hinsdale history.
The historical society of montgomery county's mission is to preserve, interpret and promote the history of montgomery county, pennsylvania and to educate the public about the region's ongoing multi-faceted cultural story... creating…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Charities of Hazleton Inc and the most unlike its peers is Greater Hazleton Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 17 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 GREATER HAZLETON HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MINING AND MECHANICAL INSTITUTE MMI PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP CADET TROOP N ↗
- Who funds UNITED CHARITIES OF HAZLETON INC ↗
- Who funds HAZLETON INTEGRATION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF GREATER HAZLETON INC ↗
- Who funds MINSI TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA TRUST ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Roman-Mason 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.
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.