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Massman Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$117k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$117k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0171% 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
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$117,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Various$117,000
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 (FY21–21, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%American Red Cross: $10k → 14%Little Sisters of the Poor: $10k → 15%Cornerstones of Care: $15k → 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
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
2
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

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

Food & Nutrition
3
Labette County Medical Center

We are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare - centered around you.

Health
4
Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center Inc

Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.

Health
5
City Garden Grade School

A school inspired by Waldorf education in mid-Missouri with an intellectually rich curriculum that inspires creativity and self dicovery

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6
Kansas Healthcare Collaborative Inc

Engaging and aligning providers and stakeholders to establish Kansas as a role model for health care quality and a top performer in health care outcomes.

Health
7
Kansas City Christian School Association

To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.

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8
Front Porch Alliance - Kansas City Inc

Front Porch Alliance works together with residents of Kansas City, Missouris eastside and urban core to meet their changing needs at home and in school.

Community Improvement
9
The Learning Cooperative Dba Kansas City Academy

Kansas city academy is a personalized learning community that respects individuality, encourages independent thinking, and values creativity in all disciplines.

Education
10
Welcome House Inc

The Welcome House is a non-profit, sober living, recovery program (incorporated in 1971) with the sole purpose of educating and rehabilitating the adult male alcoholic/ addict and the expressed mission of returning the individual to…

Health
11
Bike Share Kc

Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.

Human Services
12
Mental Health Center of East Central Kansas

To provide dynamic, culturally-sensitive, high quality behavioral healthcare to residents of chase, coffey, greenwood, lyon, morris, osage and wabaunsee counties in the most effective, caring and efficient manner.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Community Gardens Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cornerstones of Care. 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 13 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)
2
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

Various: $117,000 · OtherVariousCENTER FOR PRACTICAL BIOETHICS INC: $10,000 · OtherCENTER FOR PRACTICAL BIOETHICS INCSALVATION ARMY: $10,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYCONCEPTION ABBEY INC: $10,000 · OtherCONCEPTION ABBEY INCCORNERSTONES OF CARE: $15,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONES OF CA…Little Sisters of The Poor: $10,000 · Human ServicesLittle Sisters of …American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National …THE RABBIT HOLE KC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureRESTART INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterKANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentWildwood Outdoor Education Center: $4,000 · EnvironmentMISSOURI COLLEGES FUND INC: $5,000 · EducationHORIZON ACADEMY: $2,500 · Education
Other$147,000Human Services$35,000Arts & Culture$10,000Housing & Shelter$10,000Environment$9,000Education$7,500

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 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
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…Constance M Cooper Ch…William T Kemper Foun…The H & R Block Found…United Way of Greater…Greater HorizonsHenry E Wurst Family …R a Long Foundation 6…Marion and Henry Bloc…Ewing Marion Kauffman…The Atterbury Family …The Morgan Family Fou…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Massman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Massman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%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 · 0–75%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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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.

    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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