· Public charity
Free & Accepted Masons of the Distr of Columbia Number 7
A masonic lodge within the grand lodge of dc f.a.a.m.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $78k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASONIC FOUNDATION OF DC | $77,500 |
| VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS | $32,127 |
| NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA BOY SCOUTS | $25,000 |
| MESH CHARITIES | $18,132 |
| HANNAH AND REBECCA LAWRENCE CHARITA | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,400 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +96% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $134k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VOVARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS5× · 2021–2025 · $151k
- TDTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC4× · 2018–2021 · $106k · revenue +96%
- TMTHE MASONIC AND EASTERN STAR HOME CHARIT2× · 2024–2025 · $26k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- FPFriendship Placeone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +2%
- TSTHE SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION SOUTHERN JURISDICTION USA INCone grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue +6%
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.
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.
Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.
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How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 10 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE MASONIC FOUNDATION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ↗
- Who funds THE MASONIC AND EASTERN STAR HOME CHARIT ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds NAVY-MARINE CORPS RELIEF SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE DALLAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Friendship Place ↗
- Who funds THE SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION SOUTHERN JURISDICTION USA INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Free & Accepted Masons of the Distr of Columbia Number 7 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Free & Accepted Masons of the Distr of Columbia Number 7. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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