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Kansas Masonic Foundation Inc
The kansas masonic foundation benefits kansans by funding charitable organizations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $664,334 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $975,900 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $311,566 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $374k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| MASONIC CANCER ALLIANCE | $249,334 |
| FINANCIAL NAVIGATOR FD-KU ENDOWMENT | $75,000 |
| SHRINERS CHILDREN'S ST LOUIS | $50,000 |
| SUNFLOWER STATE GAMESKS SR GAMES | $25,000 |
| KANSAS SHRINE BOWL | $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 (FY24–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- KSKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +77%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE3× · 2023–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +31%
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN5× · 2020–2025 · $252k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- DSDEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST KANSAS INCone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +8%
- KMKANSAS MASONIC HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $11k
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.
Fraternity with a philanthropic mission.
Organization provides medical education to students and residents, patient care, and conducts research.
Fraternity with a philanthropic mission.
The mission of ksurf is to serve ksu as a cooperative organization in order to promote research and the development of intellectual property for the university.
To strengthen the University and communities that have touched the lives of KU alumni and friends, the mission of The KU Endowment Charitable Gift Fund is to receive and administer gifts and bequests to further the charitable objectives of…
Fraternity with a philanthropic mission
Kansas Health Science University's mission is to provide access to osteopathic medical and other health sciences education and training through emphasizing opportunity, academic excellence, and community engagement.
Fraternity with a philantrhopic mission
Fraternity with philanthropic mission of supporting shriners hopsital for children
Fraternity with a philanthropic mission
Murat shrine is a membership fraternity with a philanthropic mission to support shriners international and the shriners hospitals for children.
Fraternity with Philanthropic Mission.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas State University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Developmental Services of Northwest Kansas Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 17 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 KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHRINE BOWL OF KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds SUNFLOWER STATE GAMES INC ↗
- Who funds DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS INTERNATIONAL DBA ARAB SHRINERS ↗
- Who funds ARARAT SHRINERS ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Kansas Masonic Foundation Inc 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.
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