· Private foundation
Ir Tua Mason L Dean Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PARK UNIVERSITY | $60,000 |
| LOVE FUND FOR THE CHILDREN | $15,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +191% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- HPHARRIS PARK MIDTOWN SPORTS &2× · 2018–2019 · $77k
- DLDELLA LAMB COMMUNITY SERVICES2× · 2019–2020 · $49k · revenue +191%
- JLJUNIOR LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI2× · 2019–2020 · $7k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- LALegal Aid of Western Missourione grant, 2023 · $42k · revenue +2%
- ALASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue +28%
- CSCHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $38k · revenue -35%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
The mission of the urban league of nebraska is to be an empowering voice in the community advocating for economic self-reliance, parity, power, civil rights and equal opportunity for all (see schedule o). the vision of the urban league of…
Front Porch Alliance works together with residents of Kansas City, Missouris eastside and urban core to meet their changing needs at home and in school.
Helping people move from poverty towards prosperity.
The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness
To provide a world-class neighborhood school whose students excel in a culture of academic rigor, character development, and caring relationships.
The mission of the downtown council is to to create and maintain an urban environment that provides (1) economic reasons for businesses to be downtown, (2) a quality of life that encourages people to live downtown, and (3) enterainment and…
KC Tenants organizes to ensure that everyone in Kansas City has a safe, accessible, and truly affordable home.
Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.
To promote the possibilities of charitable giving, helping charitable citizens understand how they can effectively provide for the community they love and the causes they care deeply about.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban Neighborhood Initiative Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jerusalem Farm. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DELLA LAMB COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid of Western Missouri ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RESTART INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds MESNER PUPPET THEATER ↗
- Who funds THE LAUNCHCODE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LOVE FUND FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Jerusalem Farm ↗
- Who funds BACH ARIA SOLOISTS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE NETWORK OF RAYTOWN ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The H & R Block Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Hallmark Corporate Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · The Sunderland Foundation · Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ir Tua Mason L Dean Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.