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Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of California
We build in our members a foundation of values focused on service, integrity and a sense of belonging.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of GRAND LODGE OF FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS OF CALIFORNIA’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $339,750 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $357,750 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $18,000 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $273k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ACACIA MASONIC BUILDING ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| GEORGE WASHINGTON NATIONAL MASONIC MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION | $35,633 |
| VITRUVIUS MASONIC TEMPLE ASSOCIATION | $35,000 |
| SAN BENITO MASONIC BUILDING ASSOCIATION | $32,000 |
| TEXAS LODGE NO 46 MASONIC HALL ASSOCIATION | $30,000 |
| SAN DIMAS MASONIC TEMPLE ASSOCIATION | $23,000 |
| FAIRFIELD-SUISUN MASONIC BUILDING ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| PITTSBURG MASONIC TEMPLE ASSOCIATION | $19,000 |
| VACAVILLE LODGE 134 MASONIC TEMPLE ASSOCIATION | $16,488 |
| BIG BEAR MASONIC TEMPLE ASSOCIATION | $16,000 |
| TORRANCE MASONIC TEMPLE ASSOCIATION | $14,000 |
| BLYTHE MASONIC TEMPLE ASSOCIATION | $11,429 |
| BENICIA HALL ASSOCIATION | $10,200 |
| ANTIOCH-BRENTWOOD MASONIC HALL ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| AUBURN MASONIC HALL ASSOCIATION | $9,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 21% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
Elk Grove Masonic Temple Association operates exclusively as a supporting organization of the Elk Grove Lodge No. 173 , an exempt organization under 501(c)10.
Marin Masonic Building Association operates exclusively as a supporting organization of the Marin Lodge No. 191, an exempt organization under 501(c)10.
Granada Masonic Temple Association operates exclusively as a supporting organization of the Alhambra Lodge No. 322, an exempt organization under 501(c)10.
Chula Vista Masonic Temple Association operates exclusively as a supporting organization of the Chula Vista Lodge No. 626, an exempt organization under 501(c)10.
Fresno Masonic Temple Companys exclusive purpose is to hold title to property, collect income therefrom and turn over the entire amount thereof, less expenses, to the Fresno Lodge No. 247.
Silver Gate Three Stars Masonic Hall Associations exclusive prupose is to hold title to property, collect income therefrom and turn over the enitre amount thereof, less expenses, to the Silver Gate Three Stars No. 296.
South Pasadena Masonic Association operates exclusively as a supporting organization of the South Pasadena Lodge No. 290, an exempt organization under 501(c)10.
Rockridge Masonic Hall Association operates excclusively as a supporting orgnaization of the Oakland Lodge No. 61, an exempt organization under 501(c)10.
Petaluma Masonic Hall Association operates exclusively as a supporting organization of the Petaluma-Hamilton No. 180, an exempt organization under 501(c)10.
Valley Masonic Building Association operates exclusively as a supporting organization of theDiablo Valley Lodge No. 448, an exempt organization under 501(c)10.
Barstow Masonic Building Association operates exclusively as a supporting organization of Barstow Boron Lodge No. 682, an exempt organization under 501(c)10.
Crocker Masonic Hall Associations exclusive purpose is to hold title to property, collect income therefrom and turn over the entire amount thereof, less expenses, to the Crocker Lodge No. 212.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Benicia Masonic Temple Association and the most unlike its peers is The George Washington Masonic National Memorial Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.
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 2017–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 16 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 THE GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC NATIONAL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Benicia Masonic Temple Association ↗
- Who funds GRAND LODGE OF FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Vacaville Lodge 134 Masonic Temple Association ↗
- Who funds Torrance Masonic Temple Association ↗
- Who funds Antioch-Brentwood Masonic Hall Association ↗
- Who funds Auburn Masonic Hall Association ↗
- Who funds Glendora Masonic Temple Association ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of California 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.
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