Mason Rummel

Mason Rummel joined the James Graham Brown Foundation in 1989 and was elected as its Executive Director in 1998, its president in 2010 and its CEO in 2017. Prior to moving to Louisville in 1988, she was a political appointee for the Reagan Administration from 1983 to 1988 where she served as a public affairs specialist for domestic policy at the White House Office of Management and Budget.

Mason is currently the board chair for her alma mater, Sweet Briar College in Virginia. She is a member of the the Board of Visitors of Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Mason is a member of the Council on Foundations Public Policy Committee in Washington, D.C. as well as a member of the Philanthropy Roundtable’s Public Policy Working Group. Mason has served in several leadership roles over the past 30 years at Philanthropy Southeast in Atlanta and currently serves on its public policy committee. Locally she serves on the boards of Leadership Louisville’s Women’s Elevate Council, and the Kentucky Derby Museum. Mason is the founder of Grantmakers of Kentucky, a statewide affiliation of foundations across the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Prior board and nonprofit activities include:

• Member, Council on Foundations Board of Directors
• Member and Board Chair, Anchorage Independent Public School
• Chair of the Episcopal Church Home Foundation
• Episcopal Church Home Board of Directors and Chair of Governance Committee
• Kentucky Bipartisan Community Service Commission (AmeriCorps)
• Chair, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church Vestry, Endowment Committee Chair, Stewardship Chair
• Co-chair of the 50th Anniversary Task Force of SECF and Chair of the Host Committee of the 2018 Annual Conference of SECF

Mason holds a Master of Arts in Philanthropic Studies at Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy and a Master of Arts in Creative and Professional Writing from Spalding University. She received her B.A. in English at Sweet Briar College, VA. She is married with three grown children and two grandchildren.