· Public charity
Free and Accepted Masons of Georgia Norcross Lodge 228
To impart morality, ethics and teach mutual servcies to its members.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 24 grants below total $858,736 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $876,735 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $17,999 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 · FY2022
- Under $10k8 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $215k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $580k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GEORGIA MASONIC CHARITIES FOUNDATIO | $202,765 |
| GRAND LODGE OF GEORGIA | $121,196 |
| MASONIC HOME OF GEORGIA | $113,190 |
| DULUTH LODGE 480 | $91,013 |
| YAARAB SHRINE | $51,903 |
| NORCROSS CHAPTER 426 OES | $39,393 |
| 9TH MASONIC DISTRICT | $37,343 |
| CHAMBLEE SARDIS LODGE 444 | $32,892 |
| MT OLVIE LODGE 226 | $26,127 |
| ALPHARETTA LODGE 235 | $12,042 |
| BRIDGEPORT LODGE 543 | $11,247 |
| LAFAYETTE LODGE 44 | $11,247 |
| DUCULA LODGE 433 | $11,247 |
| JOHN H JONES LODGE 348 | $11,247 |
| CHEHAW LODGE 701 | $11,247 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 88% of your 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 make good men better.
To dispense friendship, brotherly love,morality and relief throughout the jurisidiction of georgia and the world
Support the charitable activities of the grand lodge of free & accepted masons of alabama
The non-profit organization is a domestic fraternal & charitable society governed in strict conformity to the constitution, laws & edicts of the grand lodge of georgia and the ancient landmarks, customs and usages of freemasonry. there are…
Advance social and fraternal interest through education and chairty.
To be recognized as a relevant and respected fraternity committed to attracting and retaining all men of high quality who strive for self improvement and the opportunity to make a positive difference in their community.
Promote brotherhood and morality
Fraternal organization
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Grand Lodge of Georgia Free & Accepted Masons and the most unlike its peers is Shriners Hospitals for Children. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 24 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 Georgia Masonic Charities Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Grand Lodge of Georgia Free & Accepted Masons ↗
- Who funds Masonic Home of Georgia ↗
- Who funds FREE & ACCPTED MASONS OF GEORGIA DULUTH LODGE 480 ↗
- Who funds YAARAB Shriners ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF GEORGIA ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF GAINC ↗
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 Robert Worth Bradshaw Family Foundation Inc · Free Accepted Masons of Georgia
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 and Accepted Masons of Georgia Norcross Lodge 228 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.