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Krasberg Mason Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$285k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0184% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$235kEnvironment$190kPublic Safety & Disaster$145kArts & Culture$111kEducation$96kHealth$72kAnimals$60kCivil Rights$45kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $230k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$20,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN$50,000
CATCH THE FIRE$35,000
CATCH THE FIRE$30,000
FOCUS$25,000
DUKE LEMUR CENTER$20,000
CATCH THE FIRE$20,000
HOPE REINS$20,000
NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY$20,000
ANGLICAN DIOCESE OF THE LIVING WORD$15,000
OASIS SANCTUARIES$15,000
TAFT SCHOOL$10,000
INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP$10,000
JESUS FILM PROJECT$10,000
INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP$5,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UGANDA CHRISTIAN PARTNERS: $5k → 11%OASIS SANCTUARTIES: $15k → 14%GLEN FALLS SYMPHONY: $5k → 10%LIVING CHURCH: $5k → 14%HAMILTON COLLEGE: $40k → 16%JESUS FILM PROJECT: $10k → 13%TAFT: $10k → 9%FOCUS: $25k → 9%NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY: $20k → 8%KINGDOM ALIGNMENT PARTNERS: $5k → 9%DUKE LEMUR CENTER: $20k → 11%GLEN ELLYN CHILDREN'S CHORUS: $5k → 7%CATHEDRAL COUNSELING: $5k → 14%ILLINI CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $10k → 19%STATE POLICY NETWORK: $5k → 7%ANGLICAN DIOCESE OF THE LIVING WORD: $40k → 9%OASIS SANCTUARIES: $15k → 14%JESUS FILM PROJECT: $10k → 13%TAFT SCHOOL: $10k → 9%FOCUS: $20k → 9%NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY: $20k → 8%DUKE LEMUR CENTER: $20k → 11%ANGLICAN DIOCESE OF THE LIVING WORD: $15k → 9%OASIS SANCTUARIES: $15k → 14%JESUS FILM PROJECT: $10k → 13%TAFT SCHOOL: $10k → 9%FOCUS: $20k → 9%NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY: $15k → 8%DUKE LEMUR CENTER: $15k → 11%ANGLICAN DIOCESE OF THE LIVING WORD: $10k → 9%TAFT SCHOOL: $10k → 9%FOCUS: $15k → 9%CATCH THE FIRE: $45k → 11%HOPE REINS: $20k → 8%CATCH THE FIRE: $35k → 11%HOPE REINS: $20k → 8%CATCH THE FIRE: $35k → 11%HOPE REINS: $15k → 8%CATCH THE FIRE: $30k → 11%CATCH THE FIRE (DESIGNATED FOR EMBRACE DURHAM): $25k → 11%CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN: $50k → 14%CATCH THE FIRE: $20k → 11%CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN: $50k → 14%CATCH THE FIRE: $20k → 11%CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN: $50k → 14%CATCH THE FIRE: $20k → 11%CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN: $40k → 14%NORTHSHORE HEALTH: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
PA
CT
CA
VA
AZ
NC
DC
FL
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$935k · 20 repeat orgs$161k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
36

Total granted

$935k
$161k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+3%

Still filing today

50%
19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationReligionArts & CultureHealthCivil RightsPublic BenefitOther
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

  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $55k · revenue +25%
  • HOPE REINS
    3× · 2023–2025 · $55k · revenue +3%
  • IC
    InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA
    4× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • CT
    CATCH THE FIRE (DESIGNATED FOR EMBRACE DURHAM)
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • SG
    ST GREGORYS CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • IJ
    INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
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
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
2
Erskine College and Theological Seminary

Erskine College exists to glorify God as a Christian academic community where students are equipped to flourish as whole persons for lives of service through the pursuit of undergraduate liberal arts and graduate theological education.

Education
3
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
4
Lake Forest College

Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…

Education
5
Albany Law School

Higher education: Albany Law School is an institution of higher education that provides instructional and educational activities singularly focused on the study of law. Completion of the programs by students culminates in the awarding of…

Education
6
Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.

Social Science
7
Oberlin College

Oberlin College and Conservatory educate students for lives of intellectual, musical and artistic rigor and breadth, sustained inquiry, creativity and innovation, and leadership. Oberlin aims to prepare graduates with the knowledge,…

Education
8
Agnes Scott College

Founded in 1889, Agnes Scott College is an independent liberal arts college for women whose mission is to educate women to think deeply, live honorably and engage the intellectual and social challenges of their times.

—
9
Andrews University

Education

Education
10
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
11
Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall School

We engage a diverse community of learners in a collaborative educational experience, preparing them for college success and a lifetime of meaningful engagement with the broader world.

—
12
Trustees of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

The broad mission of the ASCSA has remained constant over its distinguished history: teaching research archaeological exploration publication and dissemination of research. Founded in 1881 the ASCSA provides graduate students and scholars…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judicial Watch Inc; the most unlike its peers is Tewecado Trust 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

19 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. 19 of the 57 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATCH THE FIRE: $210,000 · OtherCATCH THE FIREF O C U S INC: $80,000 · OtherF O C U S INCANGLICAN DIOCESE OF THE LIVING WORD: $65,000 · OtherANGLICAN DIOCESE OF THE LIVING WORDDUKE LEMUR CENTER: $60,000 · OtherDUKE LEMUR CENTERCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INC: $43,000 · OtherCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INCCATCH THE FIRE (DESIGNATED FOR EMBRACE DURHAM): $25,000 · Other+36 more: $170,000 · Other+36 moreCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $190,000 · EnvironmentCHICAGO HORTICULTU…Oasis Sanctuaries Inc: $45,000 · ReligionInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA: $30,000 · ReligionKingdom Alignment Partners Inc: $5,000 · ReligionTrustees of Hamilton College: $40,000 · EducationTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $30,000 · EducationALEXANDER HAMILTON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION: $5,000 · EducationUniversity of Chicago: $5,000 · EducationNORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $55,000 · Arts & CultureThe Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC OF THE BAROQUE: $5,500 · Arts & CultureHOPE REINS: $55,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthSTATE POLICY NETWORK: $5,000 · Civil RightsJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $1,000 · Public Benefit
Other$653,000Environment$190,000Religion$80,000Education$80,000Arts & Culture$70,500Health$55,500Civil Rights$5,000Public Benefit$1,000

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 budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $190,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE REINS: $55,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetOasis Sanctuaries Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetTrustees of Hamilton College: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetILLINI CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC: $15,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetThe Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus: $10,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTewecado Trust Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetThe Cradle Society: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMUSIC OF THE BAROQUE: $5,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSTATE POLICY NETWORK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKingdom Alignment Partners Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetALEXANDER HAMILTON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAID FOR WOMEN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOSSELYN CENTER NFP: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE REINS ↗
  • Who funds Oasis Sanctuaries Inc ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Hamilton College ↗
  • Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
  • Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ILLINI CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds The Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus ↗
  • Who funds Tewecado Trust Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Cradle Society ↗
  • Who funds MUSIC OF THE BAROQUE ↗
  • Who funds STATE POLICY NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds Kingdom Alignment Partners Inc ↗
  • Who funds ALEXANDER HAMILTON INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗

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.

John D and Catherine …The Chicago Community…Natl Christian Charit…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
John D and Catherine T Macarthur FoundationIL12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Krasberg Mason Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Krasberg Mason Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Taft School Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 Krasberg Mason Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Krasberg Mason Foundation 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 57 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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