· Private foundation
The Mason Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $1,000 |
| SOUTH ARKANSAS SYMPHONY | $500 |
| SOUTH ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER | $300 |
| BIBLE BAPTIST CHURCH | $150 |
| SOUTH ARKANSAS PRESERVATION SOCIETY | $100 |
| OPEN HEARTS MINISTRIES | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 3 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; $100 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HLHOPE LANDING INC6× · 2018–2023 · $3k · revenue +6%
- SASOUTH ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER5× · 2018–2024 · $3k · revenue +23%
- SASOUTH ARKANSAS SYMPHONY4× · 2021–2024 · $2k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- AHAgape House Childrens Homeone grant, 2018 · $800 · revenue -71%
- MSMain Street El Dorado Arkansasone grant, 2023 · $500
- SASouth Arkansas Symphony Orchestraone grant, 2018 · $500
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.
Providing hope for children and families in the arkansas child welfare system provide foster care, supervised visitation services, a safe space for children to rest while waiting on a foster family and training for foster families.
The organization and its volunteers served as advocates for abused and neglected children. the nationwide organization has helped more than two million children.
To provide a safe have, high quality care, and hope for the future to chidren who have been abandoned, abused, or neglected.
To enhance the quality of life for those facing serious illness and loss by surrounding them with love and embracing them with the best in physical, emotional and spiritual care programs and services, and to help donors meet their…
Provide financial aid & scholarships
None
To provide assistance to victims of domestic abuse and to educate the community to work toward the prevention of family violence.
Provide tempory shelter to women and children in abusive domestic situations in arkansas county, ar
To provide care for needy children and young adults.
Arkansas hospice foundation is a non-profit, charitable 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to raise public awareness and financial support for arkansas hospice and related organization's programs and services, and to help donors meet…
The Foundation for Arkansas Heritage and History was established to help further the mission of the Division of Arkansas Heritage; to identify Arkansass Heritage and enhance the quality of life by the discovery,preservation and…
Agape house asia exists to care for orphaned and abandoned children in south asia
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 17 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.
- Who funds HOPE LANDING INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOUTH ARKANSAS SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds OPEN HEARTS MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Agape House Childrens Home ↗
- Who funds SOUTH ARKANSAS HISTORICAL PRESERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN & CHILDREN FIRST THE CENTER AGAINST FAMILY VIOLENCE ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Mason Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mason Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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