· Public charity
King Hiram's Lodge Af & Am
To promote the social welfare of its members and to carry on charitable programs for the community of provincetown mass 02657 on cape cod.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $7,310 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $9,371 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,061 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRAND LODGE SERVICES INC (MASSACHUSETTS) | $7,310 |
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 (FY17–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of King Hiram's Lodge Af & Am’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 90% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 82% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
6 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 6 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- KHKING HIRAMS LODGE CHARITY INC5× · 2017–2021 · $2k · revenue -75% · 43% of their budget
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC3× · 2017–2019 · $2k · revenue -83%
- PPPROVINCETOWN PTA3× · 2017–2019 · $2k
Funded once
- PCPROVINCETOWN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INCone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +24%
- ALAMERICAN LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +236%
- DODAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONone grant, 2018 · $477
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.
Promotion of tourism on cape ann including the towns of rockport, gloucester, manchester, essex, and ipswich ma.
To provide public broadcasting to lower cape cod massachusetts
Cape cod chamber of commerce advocates on behalf of business to strenghten and promote regional economic vitality while addressing related cultural, environmental & community concerns.
To encourage and assist in the acquisition, preservation and management of open space on cape cod
Collection and distribution of donations
Liberty lodge under the grand lodge of massachusetts meets on a regular basis to create good will in the lodge and good deeds in the community we serve.
The purpose of the cape cod & islands association of realtors, inc. ("cc&iaor") is to unite and serve those involved in the real estate industry in our region and work in concert with the massachusetts association of realtors and the…
Provide a broadly based family club to encourage members and their families in dining, social events, and swimming on cape cod providing a variety of social recreational activities.
The mission of the cape and islands united way inc is to increase the organized capacity for people on cape cod and the islands to care for one another and to improve the human condition of the region.
The mission of the cambridge chamber of commerce is to make cambridge a better place in which to live, to work, to do business, to visit and to study.
To develop and implement programs to assist the lodges in becoming more visible and active in the communities and to promote friendship, morality, and brotherly love throughout the state. to facilitate the charitable outreach of the grand…
To promote policies and programs that foster the preservation of the natural resources of cape cod.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aids Support Group of Cape Cod Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cape Organization for Rights of the Disabled Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 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 MASTER WARDENS AND MEMBERS OF THE GRAND LODGE OF MASONS IN MASSACHUSETTS ↗
- Who funds KING HIRAMS LODGE CHARITY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PROVINCETOWN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
- Who funds AIDS SUPPORT GROUP OF CAPE COD INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD & ISLANDS COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CAPE ORGANIZATION FOR RIGHTS OF THE DISABLED INC ↗
- Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS - WALTER WELSH COUNCIL #2476 INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 King Hiram's Lodge Af & Am 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Aids Support Group of Cape Cod Inc — 33% of income from government
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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