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Ir Tua Mason L Dean Foundation at a glance

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Ir Tua Mason L Dean Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$75k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$60,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARK UNIVERSITY$60,000
LOVE FUND FOR THE CHILDREN$15,000
02The need
03

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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES: $33k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

23%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$133k · 3 repeat orgs$451k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +191% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
17

Total granted

$133k
$376k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+191%
+14%

Still filing today

67%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyCrime & LegalFood & NutritionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HP
    HARRIS PARK MIDTOWN SPORTS &
    2× · 2018–2019 · $77k
  • DL
    DELLA LAMB COMMUNITY SERVICES
    2× · 2019–2020 · $49k · revenue +191%
  • JL
    JUNIOR LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI
    2× · 2019–2020 · $7k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • LA
    Legal Aid of Western Missouri
    one grant, 2023 · $42k · revenue +2%
  • AL
    ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue +28%
  • CS
    CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $38k · revenue -35%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Kansas Legal Services Inc

Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.

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2
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.

Food & Nutrition
3
Urban League of Nebraska

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…

Human Services
4
Front Porch Alliance - Kansas City Inc

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.

Community Improvement
5
Community Action Inc

Helping people move from poverty towards prosperity.

Human Services
6
Kansas City Artists Coalition Inc

The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness

Arts & Culture
7
Hope Leadership Academy

To provide a world-class neighborhood school whose students excel in a culture of academic rigor, character development, and caring relationships.

Education
8
The Downtown Council

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…

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9
Kc Tenants

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

Civil Rights
10
Bike Share Kc

Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.

Human Services
11
St Louis Community Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
12
University of the Ozarks

True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban Neighborhood Initiative Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HARRIS PARK MIDTOWN SPORTS &: $77,000 · OtherHARRIS PARK MIDTOWN SPORTS &ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITY: $40,000 · OtherASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITYCENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY: $38,000 · OtherCENTER FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLYLOVE FUND FOR CHILDREN INC: $15,000 · OtherLOVE FUND FOR CHILDREN INCLOVE FUND FOR THE CHILDREN: $15,000 · OtherLOVE FUND FOR THE CHILDRENBIKE WALK KANSAS CITY: $10,000 · OtherUNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC: $33,000 · OtherUNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INCHOPE NETWORK OF RAYTOWN: $10,000 · OtherJerusalem Farm: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $7,100 · OtherPARK UNIVERSITY: $60,000 · EducationPARK UNIVERSITYTHE LAUNCHCODE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationTHE LAUNCHCODE F…UNIVERSITY ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY ACADE…CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION: $38,000 · Arts & CultureCHARLOTTE STREE…MESNER PUPPET THEATER: $17,500 · Arts & CultureMESNER PUPPET T…KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY BAL…BACH ARIA SOLOISTS INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBACH ARIA SOLOI…DELLA LAMB COMMUNITY SERVICES: $49,000 · PhilanthropyDELLA LAM…Legal Aid of Western Missouri: $42,000 · Crime & LegalURBAN NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC: $30,000 · Community ImprovementJUNIOR LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI: $6,500 · Community ImprovementRESTART INC: $35,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$255,100Education$85,000Arts & Culture$80,500Philanthropy$49,000Crime & Legal$42,000Community Improvement$36,500Housing & Shelter$35,000

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

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
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.

The H & R Block Found…Greater Kansas City C…Ewing Marion Kauffman…R a Long Foundation 6…Oppenstein Brothers F…The Kansas City Royal…The Francis Family Fo…William T Kemper Foun…Hallmark Corporate Fo…Jewish Community Foun…The Sunderland Founda…Muriel McBrien Kauffm…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 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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