· Public charity
Grand Lodge of Af & Am of Minnesota
Preserve fraternal union among its membership and to promote charitable services among its members and the community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $236,863 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $313,028 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $76,165 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 · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $215k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MINNESOTA MASONIC CHARITIES | $112,863 |
| MASONIC SERVICE ASSOCIATION | $52,000 |
| FACE IT FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| DEMOLAY INTERNATIONAL | $12,000 |
| NORTHERN STAR COUNCIL BSA | $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 (FY18–25, $374k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MMMINNESOTA MASONIC CHARITIES7× · 2018–2025 · $374k · revenue +617%
- MAMINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS6× · 2018–2024 · $228k · revenue +278%
- TGTHE GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC NATIONAL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION5× · 2018–2023 · $212k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- JDJOBS DAUGHTERS INTERNATIONALgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +40%
- TSTHE SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INCone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +24%
- TLTACONITE LODGE NO 342one grant, 2022 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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 be the supreme legislative authority of lodges of ancient free and accepted masons of montana
To supervise and govern the massachusetts masonic fraternity
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.
Minnesota masonic charities and affiliates' primary purposes are to help, aid and assist the masonic family and others, guided by the masonic principles of brotherly love, relief and truth, by (a) providing financial or other assistance to…
To support Military Veterans with therapy dogs. To comfort the public with therapy dogs in crisis situations.
Fraternal organization
To manage the activities of individual masons in north carolina.
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.
The coordinating body (grand chapter) for the state of minnesota.
Masonic Fraternal Organization consisting of members usually meeting monthly to install officers, initiate new members, and to conduct social and general business.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota Masonic Charities and the most unlike its peers is Face It Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 18 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 MINNESOTA MASONIC CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC NATIONAL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EAGLES HEALING NEST ↗
- Who funds FACE IT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Masonic Service Association ↗
- Who funds JOBS DAUGHTERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN STAR COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INC ↗
- Who funds SOLDIERS 6 INC ↗
- Who funds 23RD VETERAN ↗
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: Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Grand Lodge of Af & Am of Minnesota 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.
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.