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United Way of Mason County

To support health and human services through sustained fundraising and to increase the community's capacity to address unmet needs.

$92k
Granted FY2017
5
Itemized grants FY2017
5
Organizations funded FY2017
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100% of United Way of Mason County’s FY2020 grant dollars went to The Community Foundation Of South Puget Sound, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year United Way of Mason County named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $30k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

5
’17
4
’18
4
’19
0
’20

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Itemized, FY2017
$30k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2017
$6,000
Largest grant, FY2017
$7,500
States reached, FY2017
1
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Housing & Shelter$27kHuman Services$24kReligion$18kEmployment$18kPhilanthropy$9k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Habitat for Humanity of Mason County$21,50031%
Love in the Name of Christ of Mason County$18,00036%
Sound Learning$17,80032%
Early Learning Coalition$14,0101n/a
Northwest Outreach$10,0002n/a
Crossroads Housing$5,00011%

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.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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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Find your warmest path to United Way of Mason County 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.

About United Way of Mason County

How much does United Way of Mason County give?
United Way of Mason County reported 5 itemized grants totaling $30,000, out of $91,632 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does United Way of Mason County fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (28%), Human Services (25%), Religion (19%).
Who are United Way of Mason County's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Habitat for Humanity of Mason County ($22k), Love in the Name of Christ of Mason County ($18k), Sound Learning ($18k).
Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Mason County?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is United Way of Mason County based?
United Way of Mason County is based in WA.

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 7 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $106k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2017, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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