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Knights Templar of the USA No 2 Portland St

Service to fraternal order - promoting truth faith self-sacrifice & reverence to christian ideas.....the primary purpose is to provide charity to the community, members and individuals in need.

$19k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$76kHealth$29kPublic Benefit$26kHuman Services$12kPublic Safety & Disaster$11kReligion$11kHousing & Shelter$5kMembership Benefit$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $5,150, the rows itemized in this filing. The $18,888 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $13,738 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.
$5,150
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Knight Templar Eye Foundation$5,150
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 (FY17–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SOUTHERN MAINE AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $1k → 9%SOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING: $1k → 7%SOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING: $1k → 7%SOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING: $1k → 7%SOUTHERM MAINE AGENCY ON AGING: $1k → 7%SOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING: $1k → 7%SOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING: $1k → 7%PREBLE STREET RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 7%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NY
MA
NE
MO
TN
DC
TX
FL
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$151k · 22 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
28

Total granted

$151k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%
+100%

Still filing today

41%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthFood & NutritionPublic BenefitHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentMembership BenefitOther
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

  • KT
    KNIGHT TEMPLAR EYE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $22k · revenue +76%
  • GE
    GORHAM ECUMENICAL FOOD PANTRY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +71%
  • WS
    WAYSIDE SOUP KITCHEN
    8× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $6k
  • GC
    GRAND COMMANDERY KNIGHTS TEMPLAR OF TEXAS
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • GC
    GRAND COMMANDERY KNIGHTS TEMPAR OF MAINE
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
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.

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Penobscot Community Health Center

Penobscot Community Health Center (PCHC) is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1997 that is governed by a Board of community volunteers and is the largest Federally Qualified Health Center in Maine. PCHC is driven by its mission…

Health
2
Eastern Area Agency on Aging

It is the mission of Eastern Area Agency on Aging to be the best source of information, options, and services for seniors, adults with disabilities, and caregivers.

Human Services
3
MaineGeneral Health

To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.

Health
4
MaineGeneral Health and Affiliates

MaineGeneral Health is a comprehensive non-profit system with the mission of enhancing, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities.

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5
Rumford Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.

Health
6
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc

Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…

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7
Bridgton Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.

Health
8
Penobscot Bay Medical Center

Penobscot Bay Medical Center (PBMC) is an acute care hospital that offers inpatient and outpatient care, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services, patient and community education, and a full range of specialty services through…

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9
Portsmouth General Hospital Foundation
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10
Maine Behavioral Healthcare

Maine Behavioral Healthcare provides a seamless and compassionate continuum of care through a community of providers collaborating to promote recovery and the overall mental and physical well-being of those we are privileged to serve.

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11
Friends of the Portland Community Free Clinic

The Friends of the Portland Community Free Clinic's (FPCFC) mission is to support access to free health care (physical and mental), for low income, uninsured or underinsured adults. The Friends meets this mission through raising and…

Education
12
Community Health and Nursing Services

Community Health and Nursing Services (CHANS) provides home health andcommunity health promotion services in Brunswick, Bath, andsurrounding communities.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alzheimer's Foundation of America Inc; the most unlike its peers is Grand Commandery of Knights Templar of Florida. 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

20 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. 20 of the 50 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
16/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GRAND COMMANDERY OF MAINE: $35,517 · OtherGRAND COMMANDERY OF MAINEPROJECT FEED AT WOODFORDS CHURCH: $13,000 · OtherPROJECT FEED AT WOODFORDS CHURCHPREBLE STREET RESOURCE CENTER: $8,000 · OtherPREBLE STREET RESOURCE CENTERSCARBOROUGH FOOD PANTRY: $7,500 · OtherSCARBOROUGH FOOD PANTRYIndividual grant recipient: $6,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSOCIAL ORDER OF BEAUCEANT: $5,500 · OtherGRAND COMMANDERY KNIGHTS TEMPLAR OF TEXAS: $5,000 · OtherBUXTON COMMUNITY CUPBOARD: $5,000 · OtherGRAND COMMANDERY KNIGHTS TEMPAR OF MAINE: $5,000 · Other+21 more: $17,854 · Other+21 moreGORHAM ECUMENICAL FOOD PANTRY: $8,500 · Food & NutritionGORHAM ECUMENICAL FO…WAYSIDE SOUP KITCHEN: $8,000 · Food & NutritionWAYSIDE SOUP KITCHENSOUTH PORTLAND FOOD CUPBOARD: $7,000 · Food & NutritionSOUTH PORTLAND FOOD …GOOD SHEPARD FOOD BANK: $6,000 · Food & NutritionGOOD SHEPARD FOOD BA…FALMOUTH FOOD PANTRY: $2,500 · Food & NutritionFALMOUTH FOOD PANTRY+1 more: $1,000 · Food & NutritionKNIGHT TEMPLAR EYE FOUNDATION: $22,200 · HealthKNIGHT TEMPLAR E…ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $1,305 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 · HealthALZHEIMERS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Health+3 more: $1,805 · Health+3 moreSOUTHERM MAINE AGENCY ON AGING: $7,000 · Human ServicesPREBLE STREET RESOURCE CENTER: $1,000 · Human ServicesGRAND COMMANDERY OF KNIGHTS TEMPLAR FLORIDA: $5,000 · Membership BenefitDISABLED VETERANS NATIONAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Public BenefitMASONIC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION MAINE: $150 · Public BenefitPORTLAND CHILDRENS DYSLEXIA CENTER: $358 · Youth DevelopmentANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE: $100 · Animals
Other$108,371Food & Nutrition$33,000Health$27,310Human Services$8,000Membership Benefit$5,000Public Benefit$1,150Youth Development$358Animals$100

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 budgetKNIGHT TEMPLAR EYE FOUNDATION: $22,200 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGORHAM ECUMENICAL FOOD PANTRY: $8,500 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetWAYSIDE SOUP KITCHEN: $8,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH PORTLAND FOOD CUPBOARD: $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERM MAINE AGENCY ON AGING: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SHEPARD FOOD BANK: $6,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $1,305 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPREBLE STREET RESOURCE CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMERS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDISABLED VETERANS NATIONAL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTBROOK FOOD PANTRY: $1,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $805 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARBARA BUSH CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 KNIGHT TEMPLAR EYE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GORHAM ECUMENICAL FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds WAYSIDE SOUP KITCHEN ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH PORTLAND FOOD CUPBOARD ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERM MAINE AGENCY ON AGING ↗
  • Who funds GOOD SHEPARD FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds GRAND COMMANDERY OF KNIGHTS TEMPLAR FLORIDA ↗
  • Who funds FALMOUTH FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds PREBLE STREET RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DISABLED VETERANS NATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WESTBROOK FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds BARBARA BUSH CHILDRENS HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds PORTLAND CHILDRENS DYSLEXIA CENTER ↗

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.

Saco & Biddeford Savi…Maine Community Found…Narragansett Number O…Good Shepherd Food Ba…Texas Instruments Fou…The Robert G & Jane V…Biddeford and Mechani…Sam L Cohen FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…
Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable FoundationME19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Narragansett Number One Foundation · Good Shepherd Food Bank · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Robert G & Jane V Engel Found · Biddeford and Mechanics Savings Charitable Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Knights Templar of the USA No 2 Portland St funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Knights Templar of the USA No 2 Portland St. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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 · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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 Knights Templar of the USA No 2 Portland St 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 50 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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