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Master Craftsmen Foundation 103916
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- $50k–250k1 grant · $145k
- $250k+5 grants · $2.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WELLESLEY COLLEGE | $871,448 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR | $726,231 |
| THE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION | $435,739 |
| ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY | $435,739 |
| CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC | $290,492 |
| NORTE DAME DE SION SCHOOLS OF KANSAS CITY | $145,246 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $726k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2021, 14 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- KCKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY2× · 2017–2018 · $35k · revenue +18%
- LOLYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC2× · 2017–2018 · $35k · revenue +16%
- DCDonnelly College2× · 2017–2018 · $34k · revenue +166%
Funded once
- DLDE LA SALLE EDUCATION CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +36%
- MPMESNER PUPPET THEATERone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +13%
- UTUNICORN THEATREone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue -12%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
The mission of KCAI is to educate artists and designers while honoring the distinct journeys of students. We forge a vibrant community that equips them to become leaders who leverage the creative process to transform the future.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
The mission of cornish college of the arts is to provide students aspiring to become practicing artists with aneducational program of the highest possible quality, in an environment, that nurtures creativity and intellectualcuriosity,…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Central christian college of kansas is a four-year, non-profit liberal arts college with the primary mission of offering a christ-centered education for character.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Ballet Association and the most unlike its peers is Mesner Puppet Theater. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 54 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds Little Sisters of The Poor ↗
- Who funds ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds Donnelly College ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds William Jewell College ↗
- Who funds DE LA SALLE EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds MESNER PUPPET THEATER ↗
- Who funds GENESIS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UNICORN THEATRE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JAZZ MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds PARK UNIVERSITY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Richard J Stern Foundation for the Arts Commerce Bank Trustee · Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · The Francis Family Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Copaken Family Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Hallmark Corporate Foundation · Henry E Wurst Family Foundation · Hall Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Master Craftsmen Foundation 103916 funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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