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Grand Lodge Af & Am of Virginia

The grand lodge is the statewide organization that governs the operation of all masonic lodges operating under charters granted to them by the grand lodge.

$405k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$206k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$1.8MArts & Culture$231kEducation$123kInternational$60k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $257,092, the rows itemized in this filing. The $404,578 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $147,486 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $51k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $206k
$21,734
Median grant
1
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MASONIC HOME OF VIRGINIA$206,277
GEORGE WASHINGTON NATIONAL MASONIC$21,734
GRAND LODGE SCHOLARSHIP FUND$17,495
ALLEN ROBERTS MASONIC LIBRARY$11,586
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 5%INTERNATIONAL ORDER OF DEMOLAY FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%INTERNATIONAL ORDER OF RAINBOW FOR GIRLS: $5k → 6%INTERNATIONAL ORDER OF JOB'S DAUGHTERS: $5k → 7%INTERNATIONAL ORDER OF THE RAINBOW FOR GIRLS: $5k → 9%INTERNATIONAL ORDER OF DEMOLAY FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%INTERNATIONAL ORDER OF RAINBOW FOR GIRLS: $5k → 6%INTERNATIONAL ORDER OF JOB'S DAUGHTERS: $5k → 7%INTERNATIONAL ORDER OF THE RAINBOW FOR GIRLS: $5k → 9%INTERNATIONAL ORDER OF DEMOLAY FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC NATIONAL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: $26k → 6%MASONIC HOME OF VIRGINIA: $254k → 9%INTERNATIONAL ORDER OF DEMOLAY FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC NATIONAL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: $25k → 6%MASONIC HOME OF VIRGINIA: $244k → 9%GEORGE WASHINGTON NATIONAL MASONIC MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: $24k → 6%MASONIC HOME OF VIRGINIA: $240k → 9%GEORGE WASHINGTON NATIONAL MASONIC MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: $23k → 6%MASONIC HOME OF VIRGINIA: $227k → 9%GEORGE WASHINGTON NATIONAL MASONIC MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: $22k → 6%MASONIC HOME OF VIRGINIA: $221k → 9%GEORGE WASHINGTON NATIONAL MASONIC: $22k → 6%MASONIC HOME OF VIRGINIA: $210k → 9%GEORGE WASHINGTON NATIONAL MASONIC MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: $22k → 6%MASONIC HOME OF VIRGINIA: $210k → 9%GEORGE WASHINGTON NATIONAL MASONIC MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: $20k → 6%MASONIC HOME OF VIRGINIA: $207k → 9%GEORGE WASHINGTON NATIONAL MASONIC MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: $20k → 6%MASONIC HOME OF VIRGINIA: $206k → 9%GRAND LODGE SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $19k → 9%GRAND LODGE SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $19k → 9%GRAND LODGE SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $18k → 9%GRAND LODGE SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $18k → 9%GRAND LODGE SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $18k → 9%GRAND LODGE SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $17k → 9%ALLEN ROBERTS MASONIC LIBRARY: $12k → 9%THE SCHOLARSHIP FUND GRAND LODGE: $11k → 9%ALLEN ROBERTS MASONIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA INC: $10k → 9%ALLEN ROBERTS MASONIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA INC: $10k → 9%THE SCHOLARSHIP FUND GRAND LODGE: $10k → 9%THE SCHOLARSHIP FUND GRAND LODGE AF & AM OF VIRGINIA: $10k → 9%ALLEN ROBERTS MASONIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA INC: $10k → 9%ALLEN ROBERTS MASONIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA INC: $9k → 9%ALLEN ROBERTS MASONIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA INC: $9k → 9%INTERNATIONAL ORDER OF JOB'S DAUGHTERS: $5k → 9%INTERNATIONAL ORDER OF JOB'S DAUGHTERS: $5k → 9%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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 27% of Grand Lodge Af & Am of Virginia’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 73%.

Grand Lodge Af & Am of Virginialessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 7 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
0

Total granted

$2.5M
$0

Still filing today

71%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • MH
    MASONIC HOME OF VIRGINIA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue -10%
  • TG
    THE GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC NATIONAL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $205k · revenue -18%
  • TS
    THE SCHOLARSHIP FUND GRAND LODGE AF & AM OF VIRGINIA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue -79% · 72% of their budget

Funded once

    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
    05the grantee network

    5 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. 5 of the 7 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.

    2
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    1
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    5/5
    Grantees still filing
    1/5
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    MASONIC HOME OF VIRGINIA: $2,020,100 · HealthMASONIC HOME OF VIRGINIATHE GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC NATIONAL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: $204,775 · Arts & CultureTHE GEORGE W…ALLEN ROBERTS MASONIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA INC: $59,644 · Arts & CultureALLEN ROBERT…THE SCHOLARSHIP FUND GRAND LODGE AF & AM OF VIRGINIA: $140,356 · OtherTHE SCHOL…INTERNATIONAL ORDER OF THE RAINBOW GIRLS: $20,090 · OtherINTERNATI…JOBS DAUGHTERS INTERNATIONAL: $20,090 · OtherJOBS DAUG…VA DEMOLAY FOUNDATION: $20,090 · OtherVA DEMOLA…
    Health$2,020,100Arts & Culture$264,419Other$200,626

    Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

    25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMASONIC HOME OF VIRGINIA: $2,020,100 over 9y, 12% of budgetTHE GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC NATIONAL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: $204,775 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetTHE SCHOLARSHIP FUND GRAND LODGE AF & AM OF VIRGINIA: $140,356 over 9y, 72% of budgetALLEN ROBERTS MASONIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA INC: $59,644 over 6y, 37% of budgetJOBS DAUGHTERS INTERNATIONAL: $20,090 over 4y, 8.9% 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 MASONIC HOME OF VIRGINIA ↗
    • Who funds THE GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC NATIONAL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION ↗
    • Who funds THE SCHOLARSHIP FUND GRAND LODGE AF & AM OF VIRGINIA ↗
    • Who funds ALLEN ROBERTS MASONIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA INC ↗
    • Who funds JOBS DAUGHTERS INTERNATIONAL ↗

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization Grand Lodge Af & Am of Virginia funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Grand Lodge Af & Am of Virginia. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
      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 Grand Lodge Af & Am of Virginia 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 7 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 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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