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Masonic Charities of Delaware Inc

To provide financial relief and educational assistance to our masonic community, and to contribute to the well being of our community at large via qualified charities.

$567k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$31k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.

Health$310kReligion$108kHousing & Shelter$61kHuman Services$52kFood & Nutrition$30kMembership Benefit$16kEnvironment$15kCommunity Improvement$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $30,877 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $566,599 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $535,722 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.

$30,877
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NUR SHRINE$30,877
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–22, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GREEN BERET PROJECT: $5k → 10%CARING HEARTS HELPING HANDS: $2k → 11%WARRIORS HELPING WARRIORS: $8k → 10%WARRIORS HELPING WARRIORS: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

29%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$183k · 6 repeat orgs$439k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
21

Total granted

$183k
$439k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+42%

Still filing today

83%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther

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

  • TN
    THE NEMOURS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $80k · revenue +37%
  • LC
    LAUREL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $33k · revenue +16%
  • 8V
    850 VVA CHAPTER
    2× · 2021–2022 · $10k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $145k · revenue +78%
  • MC
    MASONIC CHARITIES OF DELAWARE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue -6% · 62% of their budget
  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -25%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Soldier On of Delaware Inc

To administer the department of veterans affairs ssvf programs

Human Services
2
Housing Alliance Delaware

Our mission is to advance housing opportunities, end homelessness, and promote thriving communities for all.

Housing & Shelter
3
Central Delaware Housing Collaborative Inc

To help low income and homeless woman and families find shelter and secure housing in central delaware.

Housing & Shelter
4
Delaware Center for Homeless Veterans Inc

Provide housing and supportive services for homeless veterans and their family

Public Benefit
5
Central Delaware Habitat for Humanityinc

Seeking to put god's love into action, cdhfh brings people together to build affordable homes, communities, and hope.

Housing & Shelter
6
Universal Health Services Foundation

Disaster relief

Public Safety & Disaster
7
United Church Residences of Delaware

To Provide Safe and Affordable Housing for Low-Income Persons.

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8
People in Need Inc of Delaware County Ohio

Assisting families and individuals of delaware county in a collaborative effort by providing personal emergency assistance with dignity and respect in their time of need.

Human Services
9
Wayne Memorial Hospital Inc

Patients first - as we make decisions in our organization, we must always ensure our patients and their wellbeing are the forefront. quality health care - when we provide quality health care, we ensure we are doing the right thing, at the…

Health
10
Delaware Valley Hospital Inc

See schedule oas a critical access hospital and member of the uhs healthcare system, delaware valley hospital's mission is to provide the community with the high quality, patient-centered services that are most often needed; thereby…

Health
11
Delaware Hospice Inc

Our mission is to support every individual, family, and community with compassionate and expert care for serious illness. this is accomplished through a variety of programs and services: delaware transitions, delaware palliative, delaware…

Human Services
12
St Francis Hospital Inc

We, saint francis hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.st. francis hospital is a member of trinity health of the mid-atlantic…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Masonic Charities of Delaware Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%5%<5yr15%9%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr15%18%20–35yr10%36%35–55yr13%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%11%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr15%15%20–35yr10%30%35–55yr13%33%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/28
the rest of the field
11%
1,781/16,551

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
15/23
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $145,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENTHE NEMOURS FOUNDATION — $80,000 · HealthTHE NEMOURS FOUNDATIONBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $30,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INCCHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SERVICES INC — $15,000 · HealthCHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SERVICES INCBAYHEALTH FOUNDATION CORPORATION — $10,000 · HealthNUR SHRINERS — $37,526 · OtherNUR SHRINERSRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER DELAWARE INC — $25,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF …HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $22,500 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYGRAND LODGE OF DELAWARE — $16,000 · OtherGRAND LODGE OF DELAWAREAmerican Legion Lt J Allison O'Daniel Post #10 — $15,000 · OtherAmerican Legion Lt J Allison O'Dani…THE HOME OF THE BRAVE FOUNDATION — $12,500 · OtherTHE HOME OF THE BRAVE FOUNDATION850 VVA CHAPTER — $10,000 · OtherPOLICE-ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF DELAWARE INC — $10,000 · OtherMasonic Service Association — $15,000 · OtherMasonic Service AssociationHARRY K FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Other+5 more — $26,072 · Other+5 moreMASONIC CHARITIES OF DELAWARE INC — $60,000 · ReligionMASONIC CH…LAUREL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $33,000 · Housing & ShelterDOVER INTERFAITH MISSION FOR HOUSING INC — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterMILTON COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC — $20,000 · Food & NutritionWARRIORS HELPING WARRIORS — $12,500 · Human ServicesGREEN BERET PROJECT INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesCARING HEARTS HELPING HANDS INC — $2,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE DELAWARE CANAL INC — $15,000 · Environment
Health$280,000Other$199,598Religion$60,000Housing & Shelter$38,000Food & Nutrition$20,000Human Services$19,500Environment$15,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $145,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEMOURS FOUNDATION — $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMASONIC CHARITIES OF DELAWARE INC — $60,000 over 1y, 62% of budgetNUR SHRINERS — $37,526 over 2y, 15% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER DELAWARE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $22,500 over 1y, 89% of budgetMILTON COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE DELAWARE CANAL INC — $15,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetMasonic Service Association — $15,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SERVICES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWARRIORS HELPING WARRIORS — $12,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetHARRY K FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBAYHEALTH FOUNDATION CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget850 VVA CHAPTER — $10,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetPOLICE-ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF DELAWARE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SHEPHERD PLACE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGREEN BERET PROJECT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDOVER INTERFAITH MISSION FOR HOUSING INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCARING HEARTS HELPING HANDS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budget
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.

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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Delaware Community Fo…Longwood Foundation I…Crestlea Foundation I…United Way of DelawareWelfare Foundation IncDel-One FoundationChichester Dupont Fou…The Carl M Freeman Fo…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Delaware Community Foundation IncDE31.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · Crestlea Foundation Inc · United Way of Delaware · Welfare Foundation Inc · Del-One Foundation · Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Masonic Charities of Delaware Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Green Beret Project Inc — 49% of income from government
  • The Shepherd Place Inc — 35% of income from government
  • Warriors Helping Warriors — 18% of income from government
  • The Home of the Brave Foundation — 8% of income from government
  • Bayhealth Foundation Corporation — 4% of income from government
  • Harry K Foundation — 2% of income from government
  • Christiana Care Health Services Inc — 1% of income from government
  • The Nemours Foundation — 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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How do I get to Masonic Charities of Delaware Inc?

Find your warmest path to Masonic Charities of Delaware Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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