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California Masonic Foundation
The CALIFORNIA MASONIC FOUNDATION's mission is to apply masonic principles in support of education, leadership, and communities through several important programs that touch the lives of thousands each year.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $1,625,613 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,989,603 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $363,990 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $107k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $549k
- $250k+3 grants · $970k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASONIC HOMES OF CALIFORNIA | $364,821 |
| GRAND LODGE OF CALIFORNIA | $303,646 |
| RAISING A READER | $301,375 |
| CALIFORNIA MASONIC MEMORIAL TEMPLE | $228,967 |
| GIANT COMMUNITY FUND | $138,683 |
| LOS ANGLELES DODGER FOUNDATION | $75,757 |
| ANGELS RBI LEAGUE | $55,198 |
| GRAND LODGE OF CALIFORNIA | $50,000 |
| SAN DIEGO PADRES FOUNDATION | $45,596 |
| MASONIC HOMES OF CALIFORNIA | $26,370 |
| REALITY CHANGES OF SAN DIEGO | $15,200 |
| NAFSCE | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL MASONIC FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $5.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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 +26% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- MHMASONIC HOMES OF CALIFORNIA7× · 2018–2024 · $5.2M · revenue +46%
- RARaising A Reader7× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +30%
- GLGRAND LODGE OF FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS OF CALIFORNIA8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +26%
Funded once
- CSCALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +45%
- DFDEMOLAY FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA INCone grant, 2017 · $38k · revenue -25%
- DIDeMolay International Southern California Preceptory LOHone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -10%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Masonic Homes of California and the most unlike its peers is National Association for Family School & Community. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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.
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 MASONIC HOMES OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Raising A Reader ↗
- Who funds GRAND LODGE OF FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA MASONIC TEMPLE INC ↗
- Who funds GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds THE LOS ANGELES DODGERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PADRES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SoCal RBI League ↗
- Who funds MASONIC FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEMOLAY FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds REALITY CHANGERS ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Education Fund ↗
- Who funds DeMolay International Southern California Preceptory LOH ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC NATIONAL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds National Association for Family School & Community ↗
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: The James Irvine Foundation · Salesforce Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 California Masonic Foundation 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.
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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