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Masonic Family Health Services

The organization is operated exclusively for educational, charitable (including the promotion of health), and scientific purposes for the benefit of the people of the chicagoland area and other areas of the midwest.

$638k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$200k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$6.7MHuman Services$275kEducation$250kYouth Development$160kEmployment$55kHousing & Shelter$29kFood & Nutrition$25kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $345k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$29k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Masonic Family Health Foundation$200,000
Childrens Dyslexia Center$50,000
Giant Steps Illinois$50,000
Northwestern Settlement$40,000
Lake City Regional Board of Education Fdtn$30,000
Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center$25,000
Shriners Hospital for Children$25,000
Ilinois DeMolay$25,000
No Shame on U$25,000
Metropolitan Family Svcs$25,000
Union League Boys & Girls Club$25,000
Alzheimer's Association$20,000
Misericordia Home$17,500
Laurence Hall$17,500
Alas-Wings$15,000
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 (FY22–24, $363k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Metropolitan Family Svcs: $25k → 14%Metropolitan Family Svcs: $25k → 14%ASPIRE: $45k → 14%Aspire: $5k → 14%MISERICORDIA: $40k → 14%Misericordia Home: $40k → 14%Misericordia Home: $18k → 14%Honor Flight: $50k → 14%HONOR FLIGHT: $50k → 14%Center on Halsted: $20k → 14%Association House of Chicago: $5k → 14%Northwestern Settlement: $40k → 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 83% of Masonic Family Health Services’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 16%.

Masonic Family Health Serviceslessmore 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.1M · 18 repeat orgs$379k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
7

Total granted

$7.1M
$134k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+9%

Still filing today

94%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $245k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentMembership BenefitPhilanthropyOther
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 Foundation Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $6.0M · revenue +71% · 55% of their budget
  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
    3× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +78%
  • CD
    CHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +355%

Funded once

  • GA
    GLENWOOD ACADEMY
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue -6%
  • TB
    THE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC
    one grant, 2023 · $29k · revenue -1%
  • CO
    Center on Halsted
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +9%
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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Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation
Human Services
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
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…

—
5
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.

Education
6
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Ann & robert h. lurie children's hospital of chicago is dedicated to the health and well-being of all children. as the pediatric teaching facility for northwestern university feinberg school of medicine, this commitment drives us to be a…

Health
7
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
8
Illinois Health and Hospital Association

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

—
9
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
10
Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc

The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…

Health
11
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
12
The Chicago Home for Incurables

The primary purpose of the chicago home for incurables, ("the home"), is to provide financial support to the university of chicago for the operation of patient care facilities and funding of research of incurable diseases at the university…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc; the most unlike its peers is No Shame On U Inc. 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

33 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. 33 of the 36 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
22/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Masonic Family Health Foundation Inc: $6,028,959 · HealthMasonic Family Health Foundation Inc+7 more: $340,000 · Health+7 moreHonor Flight Chicago Corp: $100,000 · Human ServicesMISERICORDIA HOME: $97,500 · Human ServicesASPIRE OF ILLINOIS: $50,000 · Human ServicesMetropolitan Family Services: $50,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $40,000 · Human ServicesCenter on Halsted: $20,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesDemolay International Illinois Jurisdiction: $55,300 · OtherLawrence Hall: $47,500 · OtherMISSION OF OUR LADY OF MERCY: $45,000 · OtherLUPUS SOCIETY OF ILLINOIS: $40,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $30,000 · OtherILLINOIS MASONIC MEDICAL CENTER: $25,000 · OtherNOURISHING HOPE: $25,000 · OtherTHE 100 CLUB OF ILLINOIS: $20,000 · OtherTHE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC: $29,000 · OtherThe Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation): $15,000 · Other+1 more: $10,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC: $150,000 · PhilanthropyGiant Steps Illinois Inc: $50,000 · EducationGLENWOOD ACADEMY: $35,000 · EducationLake County Regional Office of Education Foundation Inc: $30,000 · EducationNO SHAME ON U INC: $25,000 · EducationAdler University: $5,000 · EducationUNION LEAGUE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentINTERNATIONAL ORDER OF THE RAINBOW FOR GIRLS IN ILLINOIS: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentJOB'S DAUGHTERS INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentSCOTTISH RITE ALMONER'S FUND INC: $30,000 · Membership Benefit
Health$6,368,959Human Services$362,500Other$341,800Philanthropy$150,000Education$145,000Youth Development$100,000Membership Benefit$30,000

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 Foundation Inc: $6,028,959 over 5y, 55% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC: $150,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetHonor Flight Chicago Corp: $100,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetMISERICORDIA HOME: $97,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOLD IRVING PARK COMMUNITY CLINIC: $80,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetDemolay International Illinois Jurisdiction: $55,300 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetASPIRE OF ILLINOIS: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMetropolitan Family Services: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGiant Steps Illinois Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNION LEAGUE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLawrence Hall: $47,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ORDER OF THE RAINBOW FOR GIRLS IN ILLINOIS: $45,000 over 3y, 39% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUPUS SOCIETY OF ILLINOIS: $40,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetNORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGLENWOOD ACADEMY: $35,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSCOTTISH RITE ALMONER'S FUND INC: $30,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetTHE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC: $29,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNOURISHING HOPE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNO SHAME ON U INC: $25,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCenter on Halsted: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE 100 CLUB OF ILLINOIS: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASOCIACION LATINA DE ASISTENCIA Y PREVENCION DEL CANCER DE MAMA: $15,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetThe Hap Foundation Inc (F/K/A Journeycare Foundation): $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRETT SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS: $15,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetAdler University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOB'S DAUGHTERS INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetASSOCIATION HOUSE OF CHICAGO: $5,000 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…The Chicago Community…The Service Club of C…John D and Catherine …AbbVie FoundationWP & HB White Foundat…George M Eisenberg Fo…Fifth Third Chicagola…Polk Bros Foundation …Circle of Service Fou…Motorola Solutions Fo…The John R Houlsby Fo…
Masonic Family Health Foundation IncIL28.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Masonic Family Health Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · The Service Club of Chicago · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · WP & HB White Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · Motorola Solutions Foundation · The John R Houlsby 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 Services funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Masonic Family Health Services. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
10report 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 Services?

Find your warmest path to Masonic Family Health Services 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 36 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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