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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.

$2.9M
Granted FY2021
6
Grants FY2021
6
Organizations funded FY2021
100%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$435,739
Largest grant, FY2021
$871,448
Organizations funded a year
6 to 19
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
3
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 100% of the organizations Master Craftsmen Foundation 103916 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’21
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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
FY20216$2.9M100%
FY201816$117k13%
FY201719$191kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Education$1.5MHuman Services$731kArts & Culture$666kInternational$290kReligion$500

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wellesley College$871,44810%
Little Sisters of The Poor$726,23118%
Rockhurst University$435,73910%
The Nelson Gallery Foundation$435,73912%
Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc$290,49210%
Kansas City Symphony$35,00020%
Lyric Opera of Kansas City Inc$35,00020%
Donnelly College$33,50020%
Kansas City Ballet Association$23,00020%
Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey$22,50021%
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All grantees of Master Craftsmen Foundation 103916 by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wellesley College$871,44810%
Little Sisters of The Poor$726,23118%
Rockhurst University$435,73910%
The Nelson Gallery Foundation$435,73912%
Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc$290,49210%
Kansas City Symphony$35,00020%
Lyric Opera of Kansas City Inc$35,00020%
Donnelly College$33,50020%
Kansas City Ballet Association$23,00020%
Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey$22,50021%
The Friends of Chamber Music$18,00021%
Heart of America Shakespeare Festival$17,00021%
William Jewell College$12,00020%
De la Salle Education Center$10,00010%
Mesner Puppet Theater$10,00012%
Genesis School Inc$10,00020%
Unicorn Theatre$8,00011%
American Jazz Museum$7,00010%
Northeast Community Center$6,0002n/a
Park University$6,00010%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($200k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Master Craftsmen Foundation 103916 supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWellesley College: $871,448 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLittle Sisters of The Poor: $726,231 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetRockhurst University: $435,739 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Nelson Gallery Foundation: $435,739 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCatholic Medical Mission Board Inc: $290,492 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKansas City Symphony: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLyric Opera of Kansas City Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDonnelly College: $33,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKansas City Ballet Association: $23,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey: $22,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetThe Friends of Chamber Music: $18,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHeart of America Shakespeare Festival: $17,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWilliam Jewell College: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDe la Salle Education Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMesner Puppet Theater: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetGenesis School Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUnicorn Theatre: $8,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican Jazz Museum: $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPark University: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 19.

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…Richard J Stern Found…Muriel McBrien Kauffm…Jewish Community Foun…The Francis Family Fo…The H & R Block Found…Ewing Marion Kauffman…Copaken Family Founda…Oppenstein Brothers F…Hallmark Corporate Fo…Henry E Wurst Family …Hall Family Foundation
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO28.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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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About Master Craftsmen Foundation 103916

How much does Master Craftsmen Foundation 103916 give?
Master Craftsmen Foundation 103916 reported 6 grants totaling $2,904,895 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Master Craftsmen Foundation 103916 fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Education (47%), Human Services (23%), Arts & Culture (21%).
Who are Master Craftsmen Foundation 103916's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Wellesley College ($871k), Little Sisters of The Poor ($726k), Rockhurst University ($436k).
Does Master Craftsmen Foundation 103916 fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Master Craftsmen Foundation 103916 accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Master Craftsmen Foundation 103916?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Richard J Stern Foundation for the Arts Commerce Bank Trustee, Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation.
Where is Master Craftsmen Foundation 103916 based?
Master Craftsmen Foundation 103916 is based in MO.

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 27 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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