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The Colyton Foundation care of Evan Mason

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.2M
Granted FY2019
7
Grants FY2019
2
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Philanthropy$1.1MEnvironment$115kHuman Services$27kCivil Rights$13kEducation$11kHealth$9kCrime & Legal$8kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0
02FY2019 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k2 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Beeney-Mason Family Foundation$1,124,415
New York League of Conservation Voters$30,000
Scenic Hudson$25,000
Peconic Land Trust$20,000
Sanctuary for Families$10,000
CP Soccer Inc$5,000
International Rescue Committee$125
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 24%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Lustgarten Foundation: $500 → 6%Kingsbridge Heights Community Ctr: $2k → 28%Kingsbridge Heights Community Center: $1k → 28%The Innocence Project: $500 → 17%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.

11%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$143k · 11 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +80% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2019, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
28

Total granted

$143k
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
+34%

Still filing today

100%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
Crime & LegalEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsInternationalEnvironmentOther
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

  • SH
    Scenic Hudson Inc
    2× · 2017–2019 · $40k · revenue +86%
  • NY
    NEW YORK LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS
    2× · 2018–2019 · $30k · revenue +353%
  • PL
    PECONIC LAND TRUST INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +474%

Funded once

  • NL
    NY League of Conservation Voters
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • PP
    Planned Parenthood NYC
    one grant, 2017 · $7k
  • EC
    Ethical Culture Fieldston Scholarship Fd
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
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
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
2
Legal Services Nyc

Legal services nyc is a non-profit organization that provides free civil legal assistance to low-income people in new york city. a community-based organization serving more than 100,000 people annually, lsnyc is the nation's largest…

Crime & Legal
3
New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation

To defend and promote civil rights and civil liberties.

Civil Rights
4
Institute for Americas Future Inc

Iaf's purpose is to conduct research and publicize findings concerning citizen's attitudes about economic options confronting america. iaf is devoted to fostering a robust and democratic debate about ideas that will shape our country's…

Education
5
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc

Nylpi's mission is to advance equality and civil rights, with a focus on health justice, disability rights and environmental justice, through the power of community lawyering and partnerships with the private bar.

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6
Children's Rights Inc

Children's rights is a national advocacy organization that investigates, exposes, and combats violations of the rights of children. through strategic advocacy and civil rights impact litigation, children's rights holds governments…

Civil Rights
7
Office of the Appellate Defender

Oad strives to ensure that poor people convicted of felonies receive full and equal access to justice by providing exceptional appellate representation, improving the quality of indigent defense representation through education & training,…

Crime & Legal
8
Justice Innovation Inc

The center for justice innovation is a non-profit organization that works to create a fair, effective, and humane justice system and build strong, thriving communities.

Crime & Legal
9
Legal Action Center of the City of New York Inc

The legal action center (lac) uses legal policy strategies to fight discrimination, build health equity, and restore opportunity for people with arrest and conviction records, substance use disorders, and hiv or aids.

Crime & Legal
10
Brooklyn Law School

To provide students with the knowledge, skills, ethical values needed for a career in law.

Education
11
Twin Cities Diversity in Practice

To attract, recruit, advance, and retain attorneys of color in the twin cities through education and collaboration with member organizations.

Community Improvement
12
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sanctuary for Families Inc; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. 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

30 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. 30 of the 41 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
26/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Beeney-Mason Family Foundation: $1,124,415 · OtherThe Beeney-Mason Family Foundation+17 more: $69,325 · Other+17 moreScenic Hudson Inc: $40,000 · EnvironmentPECONIC LAND TRUST INC: $30,000 · EnvironmentSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $25,300 · Human ServicesKINGSBRIDGE HEIGHTS COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $3,000 · Human Services+2 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $7,000 · Crime & LegalYOUTH REPRESENT INC: $2,000 · Crime & LegalTHE BRONX DEFENDERS: $1,000 · Crime & LegalKIND INC: $1,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $300 · Crime & LegalPREP FOR PREP: $2,000 · EducationETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $1,500 · EducationCornell University: $1,500 · EducationEDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK: $1,000 · EducationREADING PARTNERS: $500 · EducationEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $2,000 · Civil RightsCIVIL RIGHTS CORPS: $2,000 · Civil RightsJUSTICE 360: $1,500 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS: $500 · Civil RightsEquality Now Inc: $1,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $300 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $185 · International
Other$1,193,740Environment$70,000Human Services$29,300Crime & Legal$11,300Education$6,500Civil Rights$6,000International$1,485

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 budgetScenic Hudson Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS: $30,300 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetPECONIC LAND TRUST INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $25,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKINGSBRIDGE HEIGHTS COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPREP FOR PREP: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH REPRESENT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCIVIL RIGHTS CORPS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUSTICE 360: $1,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRONX DEFENDERS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Forward Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEquality Now Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $185 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $175 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $150 over 1y, 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.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The Colyton Foundation care of Evan Mason funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Colyton Foundation care of Evan Mason. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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.
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    How do I get to The Colyton Foundation care of Evan Mason?

    Find your warmest path to The Colyton Foundation care of Evan Mason through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 41 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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