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Masonic Family Health Foundation Inc

Masonic family health foundation, inc.

$468k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$468k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$4.1MEducation$442kYouth Development$179kHuman Services$175kHousing & Shelter$57kPublic Safety & Disaster$20k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$467,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$121M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Masonic Family Health Services$467,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–21, $330k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 14%METROPOLITAN FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 14%ASPIRE: $35k → 14%MISERCORDIA: $50k → 14%MISERCORDIA DONOVAN DENTAL CLINIC: $40k → 14%MISERCORDIA DONOVAN DENTAL CLINIC: $40k → 14%HONOR FLIGHT CHICAGO: $50k → 14%HONOR FLIGHT CHICAGO: $25k → 14%HONOR FLIGHT CHICAGO: $15k → 14%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 35% of Masonic Family Health Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 57%.

Masonic Family Health Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.7M · 14 repeat orgs$290k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against -10% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
11

Total granted

$4.7M
$290k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
-10%

Still filing today

100%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyEducationAnimalsOther
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

  • MF
    Masonic Family Health Services
    4× · 2019–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +658% · 100% of their budget
  • AC
    ADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2021 · $1.2M · revenue +75%
  • AN
    ADVOCATE NORTH SIDE HEALTH NETWORK
    2× · 2018–2019 · $687k · revenue +92%

Funded once

  • RU
    Rush University Medical Centergraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +39%
  • OI
    OLD IRVING PARK COMMUNITY CLINIC
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue -34%
  • AO
    ASPIRE OF ILLINOISgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +28%
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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Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare Group

The elmhurst memorial healthcare group follows the mission of endeavor health (f/k/a ns-ee holdings). the mission of endeavor health is to "help everyone in our communities be their best." central to this mission is a commitment to…

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2
Pediatric Faculty Foundation Inc

We value excellence and innovation in clinical and basic research, coordinated and comprehensive patient care, ongoing physician education, and evidence-based child advocacy. our goal is to provide leadership in endeavors that promote the…

Health
3
Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc

Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.

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4
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
5
Illinois Health and Hospital Association

To advocate for and support hospitals and health systems as they serve patients and communities in illinois.

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6
Edward Hospital

Edward Hospital follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."

Health
7
Advocate Health Care Network

The mission of advocate health care is to serve the health needs of individuals, families and communities through a wholistic philosophy rooted in our fundamental understanding of human beings as created in the image of god.

Health
8
Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation
Human Services
9
Loyola University Medical Center

We, loyola university health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.lumc is a member of loyola university health system and trinity…

Health
10
Loyola University Health System

We, loyola university health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.loyola university health system is a member of trinity health.

Health
11
Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare

Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."

Health
12
Rml Health Providers Limited Partnership

Rml specialty hospital is a long-term acute care hospital dedicated to providing quality, compassionate care to patients with prolonged, severe, and medically complex illness. rml serves patients transferred from about 90 acute-care…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The 100 Club of Illinois; the most unlike its peers is Demolay International Illinois Jurisdiction. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/23
Grantees still filing
15/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Masonic Family Health Services: $1,850,052 · HealthMasonic Family Health ServicesADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $1,151,934 · HealthADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONADVOCATE NORTH SIDE HEALTH NETWORK: $686,662 · HealthADVOCATE NORTH SIDE HEALTH NETWORK+4 more: $185,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC: $342,009 · PhilanthropyMISERICORDIA HOME: $130,000 · Human ServicesHonor Flight Chicago Corp: $90,000 · Human ServicesMetropolitan Family Services: $75,000 · Human ServicesASPIRE OF ILLINOIS: $35,000 · Human ServicesLUPUS SOCIETY OF ILLINOIS: $80,000 · OtherLawrence Hall: $55,000 · OtherDemolay International Illinois Jurisdiction: $43,800 · OtherTHE 100 CLUB OF ILLINOIS: $20,000 · OtherMISSION OF OUR LADY OF MERCY: $15,000 · OtherPATHWAY TO ADVENTURE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $10,000 · OtherTHE BOULEVARD: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $5,000 · OtherGLENWOOD ACADEMY: $95,000 · EducationUNION LEAGUE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentMASONIC ASSOCIATION OF SERVICE AND THERAPY DOGS: $30,000 · AnimalsTHE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC: $22,000 · Housing & Shelter
Health$3,873,648Philanthropy$342,009Human Services$330,000Other$238,800Education$95,000Youth Development$85,000Animals$30,000Housing & Shelter$22,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMasonic Family Health Services: $1,850,052 over 4y, 100% of budgetADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $1,151,934 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetADVOCATE NORTH SIDE HEALTH NETWORK: $686,662 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC: $342,009 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetMISERICORDIA HOME: $130,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLENWOOD ACADEMY: $95,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHonor Flight Chicago Corp: $90,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetLUPUS SOCIETY OF ILLINOIS: $80,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNION LEAGUE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS: $75,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLawrence Hall: $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDemolay International Illinois Jurisdiction: $43,800 over 2y, 18% of budgetOLD IRVING PARK COMMUNITY CLINIC: $40,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetASPIRE OF ILLINOIS: $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMASONIC ASSOCIATION OF SERVICE AND THERAPY DOGS: $30,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetTHE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC: $22,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE 100 CLUB OF ILLINOIS: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPATHWAY TO ADVENTURE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $10,000 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.

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.

Masonic Family Health…AbbVie FoundationThe Chicago Community…The Service Club of C…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…John D and Catherine …WP & HB White Foundat…Robert R McCormick Fo…Circle of Service Fou…Motorola Solutions Fo…Baird Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings F…
Masonic Family Health ServicesIL28.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Masonic Family Health Services · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Service Club of Chicago · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · WP & HB White Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation

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 Family Health Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Masonic Family Health Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Masonic Family Health Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Masonic Family Health Foundation 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 25 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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