Ohio · Nonprofit
Mason Schools Foundation
Mason Schools Foundation (Ohio) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,202 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($10,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $209k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $31k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Mason Schools Foundation does
Mission
Mason Schools Foundation helps the community by investing in our public school system to take it above and beyond what tax payers alone can fund. It provides seed funding for innovative programming and a low-risk opportunity to experiment and pilot programs and ideas. Mason Schools Foundation also recognizes both teachers and community members who go above and beyond to make Mason City Schools a terrific place for students to learn and grow. Community Members nominate Above and Beyond Teachers each Spring and one outstanding educator per school building is recognized and rewarded with a grant for their classroom.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Mason Schools Foundation funds annual grants across all schools starting with back-to-school supplies for all students in financial need. This year, grants included the second year of support for an elementary summer reading program for students who are economically disadvantaged and require reading support to have access to high quality books at home over the summer. Grants also funded calming kits for middle school classrooms designed to improve mental health, Dream Center Carts- to-Go at Mason Intermediate and books to allow students to explore the national parks at Mason Middle School. MSF also continues to support four Window and Mirrors CommUnity events annually.
$87,815 spentof which $81,665 as grants80% of program spendingSchool Partnership Grants are programs MSF supports across the district in partnership with the school buildings in grades K-8 that host strong fundraising programs with the Mason Schools Foundation. Grant-funded programs this year include finishing the new MECC Playground Wellness Path, visits for all third graders from the Critter Guy at ME and new Lift picture book libraries at MI to support social and emotional learning. Partnership funds also supported the MMS Difference Makers program.
$22,116 spentof which $20,566 as grants20% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $109,931.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $943k to $1.2M (+27%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
76% of Mason Schools Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $6k → $1k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Mason Schools Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Mason Schools Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
45% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Mason Schools Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 65% · 2021 54% · 2022 65% · 2023 43% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
40% of Mason Schools Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
Mason Schools Foundation draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Mason Schools Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Mason Schools Foundation
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Mason Schools Foundation?
- Mason Schools Foundation (Ohio) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,202 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($10,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Mason Schools Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $31,202 in grants to Mason Schools Foundation, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mason Schools Foundation?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mason Schools Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing