· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 67% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against -1% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 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 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 ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Masonry Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Masonry Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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