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Ir Tua Mason L Dean Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$75k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
100%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$60,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$60,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 4
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.5M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Ir Tua Mason L Dean Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationPhilanthropyCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving2$75k100%
FY20242$65k100%
FY20233$67k100%
FY20224$75k100%
FY20213$63k100%
FY20203$62k33%
FY20193$62k67%
FY20182$60k100%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$113kArts & Culture$81kRecreation & Sports$77kPhilanthropy$49kHousing & Shelter$45kCrime & Legal$42kHuman Services$40kHealth$38kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 17 grantees

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($147k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ir Tua Mason L Dean Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPark University: $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDella Lamb Community Services: $49,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLegal Aid of Western Missouri: $42,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAssistance League of Kansas City: $40,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetCharlotte Street Foundation: $38,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetRestart Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUnited Inner City Services Inc: $33,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUrban Neighborhood Initiative Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMesner Puppet Theater: $17,500 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetLove Fund for Children Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetThe Launchcode Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKansas City Ballet Association: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBach Aria Soloists Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetHope Network of Raytown: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetJerusalem Farm: $10,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetUniversity Academy Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJunior League of Kansas City Missouri: $6,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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.

The H & R Block FoundationMO32.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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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About Ir Tua Mason L Dean Foundation

How much does Ir Tua Mason L Dean Foundation give?
Ir Tua Mason L Dean Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $75,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Ir Tua Mason L Dean Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (19%), Arts & Culture (14%), Recreation & Sports (13%).
Who are Ir Tua Mason L Dean Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Park University ($60k), Della Lamb Community Services ($49k), Legal Aid of Western Missouri ($42k).
Does Ir Tua Mason L Dean Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ir Tua Mason L Dean Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ir Tua Mason L Dean Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The H & R Block Foundation, Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
Where is Ir Tua Mason L Dean Foundation based?
Ir Tua Mason L Dean Foundation is based in TX.

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 22 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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