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Excelsior Scottish Rite Bodies Charity Fund Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$125k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$68k
Largest
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$451kHealth$264kHuman Services$46kPhilanthropy$14kArts & Culture$11kReligion$5kCommunity Improvement$3kPublic Benefit$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $68k
$7,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAIRELIGH DICKENSON UNIVERSITY$68,000
CHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTER$13,700
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIV$10,266
JAMES MADISON UNIV$8,463
NORTHFIELD CHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTER$7,500
THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIV$6,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
SKIPPER CHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTER$3,900
SUPREME COUNCIL GRAND ALMONERS FUND$2,300
Individual grant recipient$1,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–20, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CENTER FOR FAMILY SERVICES: $6k → 12%CENTER FOR FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MA
PA
NJ
RI
UT
WV
VA
DE
DC
GA
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$752k · 21 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
11

Total granted

$752k
$66k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+17%

Still filing today

29%
9%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • Fairleigh Dickinson University
    4× · 2022–2025 · $229k · revenue +1%
  • TG
    The George Washington University
    2× · 2023–2025 · $16k · revenue +13%
  • UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
    2× · 2021–2022 · $12k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • YC
    YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA ON BEHALF OF HALEY MITCHELL
    one grant, 2019 · $12k
  • GI
    GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ON BEHALF OF PIERCE BURGIN
    one grant, 2019 · $12k
  • DU
    DREXEL UNIVERSITY ON BEHALF OF WILLIAM HARTLEY
    one grant, 2019 · $6k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
2
Monmouth University Inc

See schedule omonmouth university is a comprehensive institution of higher education committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship and service. through its offerings in liberal arts, sciences, and professional programs,…

Education
3
Georgian Court University

Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.

Education
4
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
5
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
6
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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7
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
8
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
9
Delaware State University

Delaware state university is a public, comprehensive, 1890 land-grant institution that offers access and opportunity to diverse populations from delaware, the nation, and the world. (continued on schedule o.)building on its heritage as a…

Education
10
Alvernia University

Alvernia university is a catholic comprehensive university with a liberal arts foundation founded by the bernardine franciscan sisters in 1958. see continuation on schedule o.

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11
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
12
Desales University

Desales is a catholic, salesian university that inspires transformative learning through the liberal arts and professional studies by energizing students to be who they are and be that well.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Delaware; the most unlike its peers is Collingswood Foundation for the Arts Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 35 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTER: $252,902 · OtherCHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERBEST FRIENDS CHARITY: $39,000 · OtherBEST FRIENDS CHARITYJAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY: $27,963 · OtherRUTGERS NEW JERSEY ON BEHALF OF GIAVONELLA KNAPP: $24,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $21,125 · Other+23 more: $188,434 · Other+23 moreFairleigh Dickinson University: $229,000 · EducationFairleigh Dickinson UniversityThe George Washington University: $16,266 · EducationThe George Washington UniversityDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $11,000 · Education+2 more: $12,000 · EducationCENTER FOR FAMILY SERVICES: $7,000 · Human ServicesMASONIC CHARITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $6,500 · Philanthropy
Other$553,424Education$268,266Human Services$7,000Philanthropy$6,500

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 budgetFairleigh Dickinson University: $229,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $16,266 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLINGSWOOD FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $10,700 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCENTER FOR FAMILY SERVICES: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMASONIC CHARITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALBRIGHT COLLEGE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Fairleigh Dickinson University ↗
  • Who funds The George Washington University ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
  • Who funds DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ↗
  • Who funds COLLINGSWOOD FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds MASONIC CHARITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ALBRIGHT COLLEGE ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Excelsior Scottish Rite Bodies Charity Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Excelsior Scottish Rite Bodies Charity Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Center for Family Services: 73% of income from government
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
  • Fairleigh Dickinson University: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Excelsior Scottish Rite Bodies Charity Fund Inc 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 35 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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