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Masonic Charities of Maryland Inc

Masonic charities of maryland ("mcm") is a health and human services organization with particular emphasis on providing services and programs to the youth of maryland.

$301k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
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 2025.

Education$254kYouth Development$57kEnvironment$6kReligion$6k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $30,525, the rows itemized in this filing. The $301,422 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $270,897 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$8,575
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY$10,350
BALTIMORE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT$8,575
NEIGHBOR SPACE$5,800
ASSISTANCE CENTER OF TOWSON CHURCHES$5,800
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $7k → 8%THE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE: $30k → 9%GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $7k → 14%NATIONAL MASONIC FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN: $9k → 15%NATIONAL MASONIC FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN INC: $10k → 7%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY: $10k → 6%MD STUDENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $32k → 8%TALBOT COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $5k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - COLLEGE PARK: $13k → 11%NEIGHBOR SPACE: $6k → 11%WASHINGTON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $6k → 12%FROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 18%THE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE: $15k → 9%NATIONAL MASONIC FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN INC: $10k → 7%MD STUDENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $24k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - COLLEGE PARK: $13k → 11%BALTIMORE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT: $9k → 11%ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INC: $10k → 9%NATIONAL MASONIC FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN INC: $10k → 7%MD STUDENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $9k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - COLLEGE PARK: $12k → 11%TOWSON UNIVERSITY: $7k → 11%NATIONAL MASONIC FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN INC: $8k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - COLLEGE PARK: $11k → 11%ASSISTANCE CENTER OF TOWSON CHURCHES: $6k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - COLLEGE PARK: $9k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - COLLEGE PARK: $9k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - COLLEGE PARK: $6k → 11%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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$259k · 5 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$259k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-59%
+30%

Still filing today

60%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
EducationYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
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

  • UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $72k · revenue +72%
  • MS
    MD STUDENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
    3× · 2017–2019 · $65k
  • TO
    THE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $55k · revenue -75%

Funded once

  • TG
    The George Washington Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue +30%
  • Vanderbilt University
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +24%
  • EF
    EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF WCPS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +50%
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.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
3
Mcdaniel College Inc

Mcdaniel college is a diverse student-centered community committed to excellence in the liberal arts & sciences and professional studies with careful mentoring and attention to the individual. mcdaniel changes lives. we challenge students…

Education
4
University of Maryland Eye Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
5
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
6
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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7
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
8
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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9
Marietta College

Marietta college (mc) provides a strong foundation for a lifetime of leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. we achieve this mission by offering undergraduates a contemporary liberal arts education and graduate students an…

Education
10
Washington & Jefferson College

To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.

Education
11
University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
12
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Maryland College Park Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Masonic Foundation for Children Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 14 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $71,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INCTHE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INC: $55,000 · EducationTHE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INCPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $7,000 · EducationThe George Washington University: $7,000 · EducationVanderbilt University: $6,500 · EducationEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF WCPS INC: $6,000 · EducationMD STUDENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $64,809 · OtherMD STUDENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $21,750 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARKBCPS Hereford High School: $8,575 · OtherBCPS Hereford High SchoolASSISTANCE CENTER OF TOWSON CHURCHES INC: $5,800 · OtherASSISTANCE CENTER OF TOWSON CHURCHES …TALBOT COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $5,493 · OtherMASONIC FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN INC: $46,161 · Youth DevelopmentMASONIC FOUNDATION …BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ANNAPOLIS & ANNE ARUNDEL: $10,350 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS …NEIGHBORSPACE OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC: $5,800 · Environment
Education$153,000Other$106,427Youth Development$56,511Environment$5,800

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC: $71,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMASONIC FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN INC: $46,161 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ANNAPOLIS & ANNE ARUNDEL: $10,350 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF WCPS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetNEIGHBORSPACE OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC: $5,800 over 1y, 1.2% 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 Masonic Charities of Maryland Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Masonic Charities of Maryland Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 Masonic Charities of Maryland 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 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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