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Ir Tua Mason L Dean Char at a glance

· Private foundation

Ir Tua Mason L Dean Char

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$40kArts & Culture$30kEmployment$20kEducation$17kHuman Services$17kYouth Development$9kHealth$8kReligion$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$399k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE LAUNCHCODE FDN$20,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%THE HEART OF AMERICA: $10k → 14%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITY: $17k → 8%NUTURE KC: $8k → 15%THE LAUNCHCODE FDN: $20k → 21%ENTERPRISE CENTER OF JOHNSON COUNTY: $5k → 15%SERVE THE WORLD CHARITIES INC: $8k → 15%HOPE NETWORK OF RAYTOWN: $16k → 15%HOPE NETWORK OF RAYTOWN: $16k → 15%BACH ARIA SOLOISTS: $10k → 15%THEATRE FOR YOUNG AMERICA INC: $10k → 15%BIKEWALK KC: $7k → 15%GIRLS ON THE RUN SERVING GREATER: $9k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
Literacy Kansas City

To advance literacy within the kansas city metropolitan area through direct services, advocacy, and collaboration.

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2
Kansas City Public Theatre

Kansas City Public Theatre provides access to the arts through year-round theatre entertainment free of charge to the public This mission is carried out in two activities first by producing aesthetically and ideologically diverse new works…

Arts & Culture
3
Joykc

Serve individuals with disabilities

Human Services
4
Lazarus Ministries Kc

To offer unlimited compassion while providing the unmet needs of kansas city's urban core through a volunteer program which allows the opportunity for interpreting service as an expression of faith.

Human Services
5
Bring Me a Book St Louis

Support childhood literacy

Youth Development
6
Great Jobs Kc Inc

The mission of great jobs kc is to provide access to college scholarships and tuition-free job training along with job placement assistance to secure family-sustaining jobs for low- to modest-income individuals in the kansas city area.

Education
7
Kansas Recovery Network
Health
8
Stl Youth Jobs

Our mission is to bridge the divide between our regions youth and the growing skills gap in our workforce. we envision a city where our youth have the opportunity they need to succeed, and our businesses have the workforce they need to…

Youth Development
9
Kc Fringe Festival Inc

Our mission is to attract diverse people, nuture artists, and strengthen kansas city economically by producing cultural, education, accessible, and affordable events that connect audiences, artists, businesses, and civic organizations. the…

Arts & Culture
10
Kids Win Missouri

Kids Win Missouri furthers child well-being by advancing the health, education, safety and development of Missouri children and their families, especially those who are at-risk because of poverty, abuse, neglect, racial inequities or other…

Human Services
11
Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City

The mission of The Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City is to educate and inspire our community by presenting and promoting appreciation for African-American culture through our stories.

Arts & Culture
12
Kc Tenants

KC Tenants organizes to ensure that everyone in Kansas City has a safe, accessible, and truly affordable home.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lead to Read Inc; the most unlike its peers is Stw Charities Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
10/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOPE NETWORK OF RAYTOWN: $31,500 · Food & NutritionHOPE NETWORK OF RAYTOWNSTW CHARITIES INC: $8,200 · Food & NutritionSTW CHARITIES INCASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITY: $16,500 · OtherASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF K…GIRLS ON THE RUN SERVING GREATER: $8,900 · OtherGIRLS ON THE RUN SERVI…ENTERPRISE CENTER OF JOHNSON COUNTY: $5,000 · OtherENTERPRISE CENTER OF J…THE LAUNCHCODE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationTHE LAUNCHCODE…THEATRE FOR YOUNG AMERICA INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE FOR YO…BACH ARIA SOLOISTS INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBACH ARIA SOLO…LEAD TO READ INC: $17,100 · Human ServicesLEAD TO READ…HEART OF AMERICA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Community ImprovementNURTURE KC: $8,200 · HealthBIKE WALK KC: $7,000 · Religion
Food & Nutrition$39,700Other$30,400Education$20,000Arts & Culture$20,000Human Services$17,100Community Improvement$10,000Health$8,200Religion$7,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOPE NETWORK OF RAYTOWN: $31,500 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetLEAD TO READ INC: $17,100 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITY: $16,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHEATRE FOR YOUNG AMERICA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetBACH ARIA SOLOISTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetHEART OF AMERICA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTW CHARITIES INC: $8,200 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetNURTURE KC: $8,200 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBIKE WALK KC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
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.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

John W and Effie E Sp…Oppenstein Brothers F…The H & R Block Found…Greater Kansas City C…Ir Tua Mason L Dean F…Ewing Marion Kauffman…Amazonsmile Foundation
John W and Effie E Speas Memorial TrustTX17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: John W and Effie E Speas Memorial Trust · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Ir Tua Mason L Dean Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ir Tua Mason L Dean Char funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ir Tua Mason L Dean Char. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 12 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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