· Public charity
The Masonry Foundation
To provide high quality education, conduct research for the industry, promote masonry careers, provide grants, and conduct other activities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $126,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $131,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $76k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASON CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION OF | $50,500 |
| NORTH CAROLINA MASONRY CONTRACTORS | $26,000 |
| ARIZONA MASONRY COUNCIL | $25,000 |
| MASON CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION OF | $15,000 |
| MASONRY INSTITUTE OF TENNESSEE | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 67% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +31% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k 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
- NCNORTH CAROLINA MASONRY CONTRACTORS4× · 2021–2025 · $119k
- AMARIZONA MASONRY COUNCIL4× · 2020–2025 · $61k · revenue +19%
- TMTEXAS MASONRY COUNCIL3× · 2021–2024 · $48k
Funded once
- NCNational Concrete Masonry Associationone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -51%
- MIMASONRY INSTITUTE OF MICHIGAN INCone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue -1%
- MAMASONRY ASSOCIATION OF FLORIDA INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -35%
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.
To improve, promote and service the masonry construction industry in hawaii.
Northwest concrete masonry association (nwcma) continues to support its original goal of industry advancement by continual improvement of the manufacture, design, and construction of concrete masonry products and wall systems. it provides…
To educate the general public, contractors, architects, and engineers in use of masonry products.
The purpose of CMHA is to develop and expand the use of manufactured concrete product systems in the U.S. and Canada.
To promote and encourage higher standards in the concrete and masonry industry and to promote the mutual advancement and welfare of the members of the industry by engaging in education and programs on an industry-wide basis as to maintain…
The Masonry Industry Training Association Trust is an organization that supports and promotes training for careers in the Masonry Industry.Mission:To introduce and promote, to persons of all ages, careers in the Masonry Industry.To provide…
School based on masonry skills
The natural stone institute's mission statement is: to lead, support, and promote a unified natural stone industry through authoritive information, education, standards, and advocacy. additionally, its core values include leadership,…
To promote the uses of metal buildings, deal with technical and trade promotional problems pertinent to the industry, publish information of benefit to the industry, and to promote the maintenance of standard specifications.
To improve the organizational effectiveness of union contractors in the masonry industry.
Rocky Mountain MCA serves the unique needs of mechanical, plumbing and HVACR trade associations and contractor companies in Colorado. The Rocky Mountain MCA team has more than 25 years of combined leadership in managing and engaging…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mason Contractors Association of America and the most unlike its peers is Arizona Masonry Council. 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 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 ARIZONA MASONRY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MASON CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds National Concrete Masonry Association ↗
- Who funds MASONRY INSTITUTE OF MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds MASONRY ASSOCIATION OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds THE MASONRY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Masonry Association of Georgia Inc ↗
- Who funds MASONRY INSTITUTE OF TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds Masonry Institute of Iowa ↗
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: NCMA Education Research 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 Masonry 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.