· Private foundation
The Carlos & Marguerite Mason Fdn
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k3 grants · $400k
- $250k+7 grants · $4.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GEORGIA TRANSPLANT FOUNDATION INC | $2,050,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATIO | $650,000 |
| ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES | $500,000 |
| CHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC | $500,000 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $400,000 |
| CHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA | $350,000 |
| THE GEORGIA HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| ANGEL FLIGHT SOARS INC | $150,000 |
| AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $150,000 |
| ENDURING HEARTS INC | $100,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against -91% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k 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
- GTGeorgia Transplant Foundation Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $10M · revenue +24% · 66% of their budget
- EUEmory University4× · 2020–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +54%
- UOUniversity of Georgia Research Foundation Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +28%
Funded once
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIAone grant, 2020 · $954k
- GHGEORGIA HEALTH SCIENCES LIBRARYone grant, 2023 · $325k
- AUAUGUSTA UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $128k
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.
The UGA Real Estate Foundation manages and improves various real estate assets for the benefit of the University of Georgia, governed by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. The UGA Real Estate Foundation may also…
To provide healthcare marked by compassion and sustainable excellence in a progressive environment, guided by physicians, delivered by exceptional professionals, and inspired by the communities we serve.
To make grants and provide support benefitting Emory University's Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences institutions, which includes Emory's schools of medicine, nursing, and public health and its medical research laboratories and hospitals.
To advance the health of individuals and communities by serving as the leading advocate for all georgia hospitals and health care systems.
To provide healthcare marked by compassion and sustainable excellence in a progressive environment, guided by physicians, delivered by exceptional professionals, and inspired by the communities we serve.
The Georgia Health Care Education and Research Foundation endeavors to advance innovation and quality in the post-acute and long-term care profession through support of education, research, quality improvement and the provision of…
Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is one of the nation's longest serving and most prestigious academic medical centers. Through its historic bond with Vanderbilt University, VUMC cultivates distinguished research and educational…
The georgia hospital association (gha) serves approximately 150 hospitals throughout georgia. its purpose is to promote the health and welfare of the public through the development of better health care for all of georgia's citizens. gha…
Georgia Partnership for Telehealth, Inc. is a charitable nonprofit corporation which was formed to promote impovements in healthcare and healthcare facilities in rural and underserved communities throughout the state of Georgia by…
To provide healthcare marked by compassion and sustainable excellence in a progressive environment, guided by physicians, delivered by exceptional professionals, and inspired by the communities we serve.
To provide healthcare marked by compassion and sustainable excellence in a progressive environment, guided by physicians, delivered by professionals, and inspired by the communities we serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Piedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jeffrey Campbell Evans Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 15 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 Georgia Transplant Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Piedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT SOARS INC ↗
- Who funds ENDURING HEARTS INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Jeffrey Campbell Evans Foundation Inc ↗
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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 The Carlos & Marguerite Mason Fdn 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.