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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 FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$113k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% 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
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $236,863, the rows itemized in this filing. The $313,028 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $76,165 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–50k2 grants · $22k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $215k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%MN MASONIC SERVICE ASSOCIATION: $75k → 8%MN MASONIC SERVICE ASSOCIATION: $61k → 8%MN MASONIC SERVICE ASSOCIATION: $45k → 8%MASONIC SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $15k → 8%MINNESOTA MASONIC CHARITIES: $113k → 11%MINNESOTA MASONIC CHARITIES: $35k → 11%MINNESOTA MASONIC CHARITIES: $30k → 11%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 9 repeat orgs$211k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
8

Total granted

$1.5M
$199k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+24%

Still filing today

89%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Public BenefitHuman ServicesEmploymentArts & CultureEducationCommunity 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MM
    MINNESOTA MASONIC CHARITIES
    7× · 2018–2025 · $374k · revenue +617%
  • MA
    MINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS
    6× · 2018–2024 · $228k · revenue +278%
  • TG
    THE GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC NATIONAL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION
    5× · 2018–2023 · $212k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • JD
    JOBS DAUGHTERS INTERNATIONALgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +40%
  • TS
    THE SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INC
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +24%
  • TL
    TACONITE LODGE NO 342
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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

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.

1
Ancient Free & Accepted Masons of Montana Grand Lodge

To be the supreme legislative authority of lodges of ancient free and accepted masons of montana

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2
Master Wardens and Members of the Grand Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts

To supervise and govern the massachusetts masonic fraternity

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3
Free & Accpted Masons of Georgia Duluth Lodge 480

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.

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4
Minnesota Masonic Historical Society and Museum

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Masonic Association of Service and Therapy Dogs

To support Military Veterans with therapy dogs. To comfort the public with therapy dogs in crisis situations.

Animals
6
The Grand Lodge of Texas Ancient Free and Accepted Masons

Fraternal organization

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7
The Grand Lodge of Af and Am of North Carolina

To manage the activities of individual masons in north carolina.

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8
North Dakota Masonic Foundation
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9
Free & Accepted Masons of Washington 98 Port Orchard - John Paul Jones

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.

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10
The Northeast Wisconsin Masonic Library and Museum Inc
Arts & Culture
11
Order of the Eastern Star of Minnesota Grand Chapter

The coordinating body (grand chapter) for the state of minnesota.

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12
Master Wardens and Members of

Masonic Fraternal Organization consisting of members usually meeting monthly to install officers, initiate new members, and to conduct social and general business.

Membership Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota Masonic Charities; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DEMOLAY LEADERSHIP: $129,000 · OtherDEMOLAY LEADERSHIPJOBS DAUGHTERS INTERNATIONAL: $100,000 · OtherJOBS DAUGHTERS INTERNATION…NORTHERN STAR COUNCIL: $62,200 · OtherNORTHERN STAR COUNCILTHE SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INC: $50,000 · OtherTHE SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATI…+6 more: $50,500 · Other+6 moreMINNESOTA MASONIC CHARITIES: $374,319 · Human ServicesMINNESOTA MASONIC CHARIT…EAGLES HEALING NEST: $210,000 · Public BenefitEAGLES HEALING N…SOLDIERS 6 INC: $32,500 · Public BenefitSOLDIERS 6 INC23RD VETERAN: $10,000 · Public BenefitMINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS: $227,500 · EmploymentMINNESOTA ASSIS…THE GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC NATIONAL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: $212,000 · Arts & CultureTHE GEORGE WAS…FACE IT FOUNDATION: $130,000 · EducationMasonic Service Association: $112,260 · Community Improvement
Other$391,700Human Services$374,319Public Benefit$252,500Employment$227,500Arts & Culture$212,000Education$130,000Community Improvement$112,260

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 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
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 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 ↗

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 GoodDonor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.

    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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