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Mason L Dean Testamentary Trust at a glance

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Mason L Dean Testamentary Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$17k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its 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.

Human Services$53kArts & Culture$28kCommunity Improvement$19kEducation$17kHealth$15kFood & Nutrition$5k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$17,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$364k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VALOR PARTNERS FOUNDATION$17,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–24, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SLEEPYHEAD BEDS: $16k → 15%GRANDVIEW ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $16k → 15%GRANDVIEW ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $15k → 15%PETE'S GARDEN: $5k → 15%RECONCILATION SERVICES: $8k → 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 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
Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas

The Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas servces the region by encouraging charitable giving benefiting the common good and the quality of life.

Philanthropy
2
South Central Community Foundation

To enhance the life, culture, and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.

Philanthropy
3
Generating Income for Tomorrow

To provide assistance to minority-owned businesses in kansas city, mo low-income areas in the form of business grants and back office business support services.

Community Improvement
4
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

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

Food & Nutrition
5
Kansas City Community Land Trust

Acquire and develop real estate to provide safe, decent, and affordable housing to low-income homeowners while working to ensure a culturally, ethnically, and economically diverse and stable community where generations can thrive in place.

Housing & Shelter
6
Western Kansas Community Foundation

Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.

Philanthropy
7
Kansas Manufacturing Solutions Inc

To grow Kansas manufacturing by delivering solutions to small and medium sized manufacturers with value driven results.

Community Improvement
8
Simple Generosity Foundation

To make charitable giving easier and more meaningful for purpose-minded companies and make fundraising more equitable for small but important nonprofits that might otherwise be overlooked for large brand partnerships.

Religion
9
Foundation for Regeneration Inc

The foundation for regeneration ('ffr') is dedicated to creating meaningful demonstrations that showcase the promise of regeneration through projects that catalyze both economic development and ecological health in kansas city.

Housing & Shelter
10
Oklahoma City Beautiful Inc

OKC Beautiful's mission is to lead beautification and environmental stewardship through collaboration, education and advocacy. We have been doing this for over 50 years through volunteers and contributing donors. This directly impacts the…

Environment
11
Great Jobs Kc Inc

The mission of great jobs kc is to provide access to college scholarships and tuition-free job training along with job placement assistance to secure family-sustaining jobs for low- to modest-income individuals in the kansas city area.

Education
12
Jefferson Growers Artisans and Prod

Provide locally grown products from local farmers so fresh food can be provided to the local community.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grandview Assistance Program; the most unlike its peers is Sleepyhead Beds. 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.

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
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GRANDVIEW ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $30,000 · Human ServicesGRANDVIEW ASSISTANCE PROGRAMSLEEPYHEAD BEDS: $15,600 · Human ServicesSLEEPYHEAD BEDSRECONCILIATION SERVICES: $7,500 · Human ServicesRECONCILIATION SERVICESPETES GARDEN: $5,000 · Human ServicesPETES GARDENHEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $15,000 · Arts & CultureHEART OF AMERICA SHAKES…CITY OF FOUNTAINS FOUNDATION: $13,000 · Arts & CultureCITY OF FOUNTAINS FOUND…VALOR PARTNERS FOUNDATION: $17,000 · PhilanthropyVALOR PARTNERS…GIFT OF LIFE INC: $15,000 · HealthGIFT OF LIFE…BRIDGING THE GAP INC: $13,500 · OtherBRIDGING TH…ENTERPRISE CENTER OF JOHNSON COUNTY: $5,000 · Community Improvement
Human Services$58,100Arts & Culture$28,000Philanthropy$17,000Health$15,000Other$13,500Community Improvement$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGRANDVIEW ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $30,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetVALOR PARTNERS FOUNDATION: $17,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetSLEEPYHEAD BEDS: $15,600 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetGIFT OF LIFE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetHEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBRIDGING THE GAP INC: $13,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCITY OF FOUNTAINS FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetRECONCILIATION SERVICES: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetENTERPRISE CENTER OF JOHNSON COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPETES GARDEN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

Greater Kansas City C…Menorah Heritage Foun…Hallmark Corporate Fo…Ewing Marion Kauffman…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO25× affinity10 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Menorah Heritage Foundation · Hallmark Corporate Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Mason L Dean Testamentary Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mason L Dean Testamentary Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 10 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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