How much does The Mason Foundation give?

The Mason Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $2,150 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does The Mason Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (41%), Health (19%), Religion (19%).

Who are The Mason Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Hope Landing Inc ($3k), South Arkansas Arts Center ($3k), First Baptist Church ($2k).

Does The Mason Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Mason Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Mason Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alderson Family Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.

Where is The Mason Foundation based?

The Mason Foundation is based in AR.

Foundation Dossiers

Arkansas · Private foundation

The Mason Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 6
Grants FY2024: 3
Organizations funded FY2023: 33%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $300
Largest grant, FY2024: $1,000
Organizations funded a year: 3 to 8; FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $17k
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations The Mason Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureInternationalHealthHuman ServicesOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	6	$2k	17%
FY2023	3	$1k	33%
FY2022	7	$3k	14%
FY2021	7	$3k	29%
FY2020	4	$2k	25%
FY2019	7	$1k	43%
FY2018	8	$3k	n/a

98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$6kHealth$3kReligion$3kInternational$1kHuman Services$900Community Improvement$500Housing & Shelter$200Membership Benefit$200Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Hope Landing Inc	$2,600	6	0%
South Arkansas Arts Center	$2,500	5	0%
First Baptist Church	$2,035	4	n/a
South Arkansas Symphony	$1,800	4	0%
Open Hearts Ministries	$1,100	4	0%
Agape House Childrens Home	$800	1	0%
Bible Baptist Church	$630	4	n/a
South Arkansas Historical Preservation Society	$600	4	0%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc	$100	1	0%
Women & Children First the Center Against Family Violence	$100	1	0%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($2k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Mason Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Alderson Family FoundationAR13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alderson Family Foundation · 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.

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About The Mason Foundation

How much does The Mason Foundation give?: The Mason Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $2,150 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does The Mason Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (41%), Health (19%), Religion (19%).
Who are The Mason Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Hope Landing Inc ($3k), South Arkansas Arts Center ($3k), First Baptist Church ($2k).
Does The Mason Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Mason Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Mason Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alderson Family Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Mason Foundation based?: The Mason Foundation is based in AR.