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Kansas Masonic Foundation Inc

The kansas masonic foundation benefits kansans by funding charitable organizations.

$976k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$2.8MHealth$2.1MRecreation & Sports$115kReligion$36kArts & Culture$20kPublic Benefit$10kCivil Rights$8kInternational$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $664,334, the rows itemized in this filing. The $975,900 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $311,566 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $374k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$75,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES OF NW KANSAS: $25k → 14%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.0M · 8 repeat orgs$119k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
8

Total granted

$5.0M
$94k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+114%

Still filing today

88%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • KS
    KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +77%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +31%
  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
    5× · 2020–2025 · $252k · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • DS
    DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST KANSAS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +8%
  • KM
    KANSAS MASONIC HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $11k
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
Shriners International

Fraternity with a philanthropic mission.

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2
Kansas University Urologic Surgery Foundation

Organization provides medical education to students and residents, patient care, and conducts research.

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3
Kaaba Shriners

Fraternity with a philanthropic mission.

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4
Kennesaw State University Research and Service Foundation Inc

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.

Education
5
The Ku Endowment Charitable Gift Fund

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…

Philanthropy
6
Kem Shriners

Fraternity with a philanthropic mission

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7
Kansas Health Science University Inc

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.

Education
8
Kalif Shriners

Fraternity with a philantrhopic mission

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9
Shriners International

Fraternity with philanthropic mission of supporting shriners hopsital for children

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10
Shriners International- Dba Sahib Shriners

Fraternity with a philanthropic mission

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11
Shriners International

Murat shrine is a membership fraternity with a philanthropic mission to support shriners international and the shriners hospitals for children.

—
12
El Kahir Shriners

Fraternity with Philanthropic Mission.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas State University Foundation; 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.
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 17 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,950,000 · EducationKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $150,000 · EducationThe Kansas University Endowment AssociationFORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 · EducationFORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1,249,334 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENT…SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $251,750 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENKANSAS ATHLETICS INC: $1,100,000 · OtherKANSAS ATHLETICS INC+8 more: $91,335 · Other+8 moreSHRINE BOWL OF KANSAS INC: $90,000 · Recreation & SportsSUNFLOWER STATE GAMES INC: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsDEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST KANSAS INC: $25,000 · Human Services
Education$2,250,000Health$1,501,084Other$1,191,335Recreation & Sports$115,000Human Services$25,000

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 budgetKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,950,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1,249,334 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $251,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSHRINE BOWL OF KANSAS INC: $90,000 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetDEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST KANSAS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHRINERS INTERNATIONAL DBA ARAB SHRINERS: $22,410 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetARARAT SHRINERS: $6,825 over 1y, 0.7% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Kansas Masonic Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kansas Masonic Foundation Inc. 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%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Kansas Masonic Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Kansas Masonic Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 17 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 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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