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Grand Lodge of Af & Am of Minnesota

Preserve fraternal union among its membership and to promote charitable services among its members and the community.

$313k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Itemized grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
17%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$237k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$112,863
Organizations funded a year
4 to 9
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$10M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Grand Lodge of Af & Am of Minnesota funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Public BenefitCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving5$237k20%
FY20246$135k17%
FY20236$212k0%
FY20226$166k50%
FY20219$252k22%
FY20209$211k11%
FY20194$99k25%
FY20189$388kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$398kCommunity Improvement$241kHousing & Shelter$228kPublic Benefit$220kArts & Culture$212kYouth Development$172kHealth$130kMembership Benefit$50kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Grand Lodge of Af & Am of Minnesota by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Minnesota Masonic Charities$374,31975%
Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans$227,50060%
The George Washington Masonic National Memorial Association$212,00053%
Eagles Healing Nest$210,00065%
Face It Foundation$130,000513%
Demolay Leadership$129,0004n/a
Masonic Service Association$112,26035%
Jobs Daughters International$100,0001n/a
Northern Star Council$62,20060%
The Scottish Rite Foundation of the District of Columbia Inc$50,000110%
Soldiers 6 Inc$32,500412%
Demolay International$12,0001n/a
23rd Veteran$10,00012%
Minnesota Zoo$6,0001n/a

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($33k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Grand Lodge of Af & Am of Minnesota supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMinnesota Masonic Charities: $374,319 over 7y, 4.6% of budgetMinnesota Assistance Council for Veterans: $227,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetThe George Washington Masonic National Memorial Association: $212,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetEagles Healing Nest: $210,000 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetFace It Foundation: $130,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetMasonic Service Association: $112,260 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetNorthern Star Council: $62,200 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Scottish Rite Foundation of the District of Columbia Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetSoldiers 6 Inc: $32,500 over 4y, 12% of budget23rd Veteran: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Network for GoodDC7.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Grand Lodge of Af & Am of Minnesota

How much does Grand Lodge of Af & Am of Minnesota give?
Grand Lodge of Af & Am of Minnesota reported 5 itemized grants totaling $236,863, out of $313,028 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Grand Lodge of Af & Am of Minnesota fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (23%), Community Improvement (14%), Housing & Shelter (13%).
Who are Grand Lodge of Af & Am of Minnesota's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Minnesota Masonic Charities ($374k), Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans ($228k), The George Washington Masonic National Memorial Association ($212k).
Does Grand Lodge of Af & Am of Minnesota fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Grand Lodge of Af & Am of Minnesota?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Network for Good, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Grand Lodge of Af & Am of Minnesota based?
Grand Lodge of Af & Am of Minnesota is based in MN.

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 18 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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