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· Public charity
FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF THE DISTR
A masonic lodge within the grand lodge of dc f.a.a.m.
$194k
Granted FY2025
7
Grants
4
Communities
$78k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 65% of FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF THE DISTR’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02FY2025 · 7 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $78k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$8.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
- MASONIC FOUNDATION OF DC$77,500
- VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS$32,127
- NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA BOY SCOUTS$25,000
- NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY$25,000
- MESH CHARITIES$18,132
- HANNAH AND REBECCA LAWRENCE CHARITA$10,000
- ANONYMOUS RECIPIENT$6,400
02The need
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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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 9%. 83% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$282k · 3 repeat orgs$161k to everyone else
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
3
2
Total granted
$282k
$17k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+155%
+368%
Still filing today
67%
100%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $144k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Housing & ShelterEducationMembership BenefitPublic BenefitPhilanthropyOther
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
- VOVARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS5× · 2021–2025 · $151k
- DCDC CENTRAL KITCHEN4× · 2018–2021 · $106k · revenue +155%
- MCMESH CHARITIES2× · 2024–2025 · $26k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- FPFRIENDSHIP PLACEgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +120%
- SRSCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue +368%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
The District of Columbia Bar Foundation
To fund, support, and improve legal representation of the disadvantaged in the district of columbia.
Crime & Legal
2
Metropolitan Washington Council
Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region.
Public Benefit
3
National Foundation for Credit
The nfcc and its members offer people solutions and support to address financial challenges and take charge of their own financial futures.
Human Services
4
Downtowndc Foundation
The downtowndc foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization that supports philanthropic initiatives in downtowndc. our mission is to serve and celebrate our vibrant and diverse downtowndc community by providing homeless services, revitalizing…
Unclassified
5
Dc Policy Center
The d.c. policy center is a non-partisan, independent think tank focused on advancing policies for a vibrant and growing economy in the district of columbia. the d.c. policy center provides objective, targeted, and high-quality data…
Public Benefit
6
Dc Preparatory Academy
Dc prep is a network of public charter schools serving pk3-8th grade students in washington, dc.
Education
7
National Skills Coalition
Community Improvement
8
National Council of State
To advance the nation's state housing finance agencies' efforts to provide affordable housing.
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9
National Veterans Legal Services
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10
The George Washington Masonic National
Museum
Arts & Culture
11
Council for Court Excellence
Bring people together to research, educate, & advocate for a fair, equitable dc legal system.
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12
Federal City Council
To develop, stimulate and encourage civic leadership in community development in the national capital of the united states of america and its environs; to cooperate with the planning activities and programs throughout said area of the…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Masonic and Eastern Star Home Charit and the most unlike its peers is The Masonic Foundation of the District of Columbia. 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
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$288,066Membership Benefit$77,500Housing & Shelter$35,632Public Benefit$25,000Philanthropy$10,000Education$7,000
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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF THE DISTR 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MASONIC FOUNDATION OF DC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~10 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 526042568 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on MASONIC FOUNDATION OF DC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 10 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 17% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Free & Accepted Masons of the Distr?
Find your warmest path to Free & Accepted Masons of the Distr through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines