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Masonic Foundation of Utah

The organization's mission or purpose is to provide scholarship funds for qualifying individuals in order that they may attend college in the utah area generally.

$325k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$85k
Largest
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 2024.

Human Services$251kEducation$75kArts & Culture$26kCommunity Improvement$9k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $95,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $324,867 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $229,367 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $85k
$85,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF UTAH$85,000
GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC$10,500
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 (FY19–24, $251k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $21k → 8%SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF UTAH: $85k → 8%SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF UTAH: $40k → 8%SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF UTAH: $40k → 8%SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF UTAH: $40k → 8%SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF UTAH: $25k → 8%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 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
City Rescue Mission Inc

Our mission is to lead our community by serving people experiencing or at risk of homelessness with help, hope, and healing, in the spirit of excellence, under the call of christ.

Human Services
2
Volunteers of America Utah

To provide community-supported paths, for those who are vulnerable, to improve their lives and increase their self-reliance. we envision a community where everyone belongs, everyone has access to the services they need, and homelessness is…

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3
St Vincent De Paul Salvage Bureau

Our mission is to provide supportive services, safe and sanitary emergency shelters, and to facilitate a continuum of care that helps end the cycle of homelessness in the panhandle area.

Human Services
4
Shelter House Community Shelter and Transition Services

Through shelter and housing, advocacy and supportive services, our mission is to prevent and end homelessness in our community.

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5
Safe Nesttemporary Assistance for

Safe nest's mission is to provide comprehensive, collaborative, and innovative services for everyone affected by domestic and sexual violence while passionatley working to end this shared epidemic.

Human Services
6
Utah Domestic Violence Advisory Council

The organization's mission is to end domestic violence in utah through advocacy, education, collaboration, and leadership. the organization is the nationally recognized domestic violence coalition for the state of utah.

Crime & Legal
7
The San Francisco Particular Council of the Society of St Vincent De Paul

The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.

Human Services
8
Salt Lake Community Action Program

The mission of salt lake community action is to empower individuals, strengthen families, and build communities through education and self-sufficiency programs.

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9
Umom New Day Centers Inc

To end family homelessness by restoring hope and rebuilding lives, so no child will ever have to sleep on the streets.

Housing & Shelter
10
The Midnight Mission

The midnight mission seeks to offer a bridge to self sufficiency for people experiencing homelessness through interim shelter, advocacy, education, training and job placement, make available the necessities of life, offer the 12-step…

Human Services
11
House of Hope

Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.

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12
The Christmas Box International

The christmas box international partners with local, national and international communities and groups to prevent child abuse and to improve the quality of life for children, teens and young adults who have been abused, neglected or are…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Valley Sanctuary Inc; the most unlike its peers is The George Washington Masonic National Memorial Association. 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

4 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. 4 of the 7 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
1/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF UTAH: $230,000 · Human ServicesSCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF UTAHPEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $21,000 · Human ServicesPEOPLE HELPING PEOPLEScottish Rite Foundation: $75,000 · OtherScottish Rite FoundationUT Masonic Library & Museum F: $9,000 · OtherUT Masonic Library & Museum …DEMOLAY INTERNATIONAL: $6,000 · OtherDEMOLAY INTERNATIONALTHE GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC NATIONAL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: $10,500 · Arts & CultureMasonic Service Association: $9,000 · Community Improvement
Human Services$251,000Other$90,000Arts & Culture$10,500Community Improvement$9,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF UTAH: $230,000 over 5y, 43% of budgetPEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $21,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTHE GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC NATIONAL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: $10,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMasonic Service Association: $9,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 Foundation of Utah funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Masonic Foundation of Utah. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Foundation of Utah 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 7 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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