· Public charity
Free Accepted Masons of Georgia
To make good men better.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 23 grants below total $771,101 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $823,251 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $52,150 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 · FY2020
- $10k–50k18 grants · $221k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $550k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $200,000 |
| SCOTTISH RITE FDN OF GA | $200,000 |
| MOLLY MOSELY EYE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CRYPTIC MASON MEDICAL RESEARCH | $50,000 |
| ROYAL ARCH RESEARCH ASSISTANCE | $50,000 |
| GRAND LODGE OF GEORGIA | $25,000 |
| GEORGIA MASONIC CHILDREN'S HOME | $20,550 |
| GEORGIA MASONIC CHARITIES FDN | $20,000 |
| DEKALB MASONIC MEMORIAL CLUB | $15,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL OF DAYTON | $10,551 |
| LYMAN HALL NATIONAL SOJOURNERS | $10,000 |
| SOJOURNERS- FORT MCPHERSON 60 | $10,000 |
| LADY T HOMELESS MINISTRY | $10,000 |
| SOJOURNERS-BLOOD MOUNTAIN CHAPTER | $10,000 |
| STONE MTN COOPERATIVE ECUM MINISTRY | $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 (FY20–20, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
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.
To impart morality, ethics and teach mutual services to its members. free masonry is taught by experience to serve god, help his fellow man and better himself.
To make good men better.
Support the charitable activities of the grand lodge of free & accepted masons of alabama
To dispense friendship, brotherly love,morality and relief throughout the jurisidiction of georgia and the world
To provide funds for skilled care and a congregative living facility for the elderly.
To receive donations and distribute all income to charitable organizations.
To support various programs including the Child ID Program, Scholarship Program, Disaster Relief Program,and Masonic Home of Florida.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Free & Accepted Masons of Georgia and the most unlike its peers is Mollie S Moseley Eye Foundation Tr % James E Moseley. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 23 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 SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF GAINC ↗
- Who funds Cryptic Masons Medical Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds ROYAL ARCH RESEARCH ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds MOLLIE S MOSELEY EYE FOUNDATION TR % JAMES E MOSELEY ↗
- Who funds The Grand Lodge of Georgia Free & Accepted Masons ↗
- Who funds Masonic Home of Georgia ↗
- Who funds Georgia Masonic Charities Foundation ↗
- Who funds DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Supreme Forest Tall Cedars of Lebanon Internationa ↗
- Who funds NETWORKS COOPERATIVE MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds LADY TS HOMELESS MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds National Sojourners Incorporated ↗
- Who funds FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF GEORGIA ↗
- Who funds STONE MOUNTAIN COOPERATIVE ECUMENICAL MINISTRY INC ↗
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: Free and Accepted Masons of Georgia Norcross Lodge 228 · 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 Free Accepted Masons of Georgia 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% 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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