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Massman Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$117k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
Organizations funded FY2022
100%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$117,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$117,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 11
FY2020 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Total assets, FY2022
$1.7M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 100% of the organizations Massman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22
Human ServicesEnvironmentEducationHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20221$117k100%
FY202111$92k100%
FY20201$10kn/a
71% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$35kArts & Culture$10kHealth$10kHousing & Shelter$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kReligion$10kEducation$8kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cornerstones of Care$15,00010%
Little Sisters of The Poor$10,00010%
Center for Practical Bioethics Inc$10,00011%
Salvation Army$10,0001n/a
The Rabbit Hole Kc$10,00011%
Restart Inc$10,00010%
Conception Abbey Inc$10,0001n/a
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$10,00010%
Kansas City Community Gardens Inc$5,00010%
Missouri Colleges Fund Inc$5,00011%
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All grantees of Massman Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cornerstones of Care$15,00010%
Little Sisters of The Poor$10,00010%
Center for Practical Bioethics Inc$10,00011%
Salvation Army$10,0001n/a
The Rabbit Hole Kc$10,00011%
Restart Inc$10,00010%
Conception Abbey Inc$10,0001n/a
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$10,00010%
Kansas City Community Gardens Inc$5,00010%
Missouri Colleges Fund Inc$5,00011%
Wildwood Outdoor Education Center$4,00010%
Horizon Academy$2,50010%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($117k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Massman Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCornerstones of Care: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLittle Sisters of The Poor: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Practical Bioethics Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Rabbit Hole Kc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRestart Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKansas City Community Gardens Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMissouri Colleges Fund Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWildwood Outdoor Education Center: $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHorizon Academy: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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 Community FoundationMO22.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · The H & R Block Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Greater Horizons · Henry E Wurst Family Foundation · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · The Atterbury Family Foundation · The Morgan 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.

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How do I get to Massman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Massman 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.

About Massman Foundation

How much does Massman Foundation give?
Massman Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $117,000 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
What does Massman Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2022, its largest causes are Human Services (5%), Arts & Culture (1%), Health (1%).
Who are Massman Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2022: Cornerstones of Care ($15k), Little Sisters of The Poor ($10k), Center for Practical Bioethics Inc ($10k).
Does Massman Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Massman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Massman Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation, William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee.
Where is Massman Foundation based?
Massman Foundation is based in KS.

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 13 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $122k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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