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Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania Charity Foundation at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania Charity Foundation

To distribute charitable donations to organizations which qualify as charitable organizations under sec 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code.

$115k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$60k
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.

Arts & Culture$2.2MHuman Services$717kPublic Safety & Disaster$216kEducation$174kMembership Benefit$75kCommunity Improvement$67kHealth$45kEmployment$33kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $111,436, the rows itemized in this filing. The $114,936 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,500 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $44k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$33,836
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC MEMORIAL$60,100
MASONIC SERVICE ASSOCIATION$33,836
NATIONAL MAOSONIC FOUNDATION FOR$10,000
NEWTOWN LODGE NO 427$7,500
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 51% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%NEWTOWN LODGE NO 427: $8k → 6%MASONIC VILLAGES OF THE GRAND LODGE: $705k → 9%AMERICA250PA: $67k → 15%STATE COLLEGE LODGE NO 700: $33k → 16%PHILADELPHIA SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR: $25k → 22%NATIONAL MAOSONIC FOUNDATION FOR: $10k → 7%GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC MEMORIAL: $82k → 9%MASONIC SERVICE ASSOCIATION -: $74k → 8%PENNSYLVANIA MASONIC YOUTH: $64k → 9%SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $20k → 22%NATIONAL MAOSONIC FOUNDATION FOR: $10k → 7%GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC MEMORIAL: $75k → 9%MASONIC SERVICE ASSOCIATION -: $53k → 8%PENNSYLVANIA MASONIC YOUTH: $55k → 9%THE MASONIC LIBRARY & MUSEUM OF: $551k → 22%GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC MEMORIAL: $74k → 9%MASONIC SERVICE ASSOCIATION -: $45k → 8%PENNSYLVANIA MASONIC YOUTH: $38k → 9%THE MASONIC LIBRARY & MUSEUM OF: $412k → 22%GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC MEMORIAL: $74k → 9%MASONIC SERVICE ASSOCIATION: $34k → 8%PENNSYLVANIA MASONIC YOUTH: $17k → 9%THE MASONIC LIBRARY & MUSEUM OF: $400k → 22%GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC MEMORIAL: $71k → 9%MASONIC SERVICE ASSOCIATION -: $24k → 8%MASONIC VILLAGES OF THE GRAND LODGE: $12k → 9%THE MASONIC LIBRARY & MUSEUM OF: $300k → 22%GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC MEMORIAL: $64k → 9%MASONIC SERVICE ASSOCIATION: $23k → 8%THE MASONIC LIBRARY & MUSEUM OF: $6k → 22%GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC MEMORIAL: $60k → 9%MASONIC SERVICE ASSOCIATION -: $20k → 8%MASONIC SERVICE ASSOCIATION: $19k → 8%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 7 repeat orgs$108k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
2

Total granted

$3.4M
$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+321%

Still filing today

57%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Housing & ShelterHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TM
    THE MASONIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF PENNSYLVANIA
    5× · 2017–2022 · $1.7M · revenue +7%
  • MV
    MASONIC VILLAGES OF THE GRAND LODGE OF PENNSYLVANIA
    2× · 2017–2018 · $717k · revenue +25%
  • TG
    THE GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC NATIONAL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $500k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • PV
    Philadelphia Visitor Center Corporationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $67k · revenue +321%
  • SC
    STATE COLLEGE LODGE NO 700
    one grant, 2017 · $33k
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE MASONIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,668,531 · OtherTHE MASONIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF PENNSYLVANIAMASONIC SERVICE ASSOCIATION -: $290,697 · OtherMASONIC SERVICE ASSOCIATION -PENNSYLVANIA MASONIC YOUTH FOUNDATION: $173,500 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA MASONIC YOUTH FOUNDATION+2 more: $40,500 · OtherMASONIC VILLAGES OF THE GRAND LODGE OF PENNSYLVANIA: $716,834 · Housing & ShelterMASONIC VILLAGES OF THE…THE GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC NATIONAL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: $499,500 · Arts & CultureTHE GEORGE WASHI…Philadelphia Visitor Center Corporation: $67,000 · Community ImprovementSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $45,000 · HealthMASONIC FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN INC: $20,000 · Youth Development
Other$2,173,228Housing & Shelter$716,834Arts & Culture$499,500Community Improvement$67,000Health$45,000Youth Development$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE MASONIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,668,531 over 5y, 9.7% of budgetMASONIC VILLAGES OF THE GRAND LODGE OF PENNSYLVANIA: $716,834 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC NATIONAL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: $499,500 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA MASONIC YOUTH FOUNDATION: $173,500 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetPhiladelphia Visitor Center Corporation: $67,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMASONIC FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN INC: $20,000 over 2y, 6.6% 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Pennsylvania Charity Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania Charity Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of 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 · 0–20%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania Charity Foundation 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 10 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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