· Private foundation
Masonic Foundation of Wilmette
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILMETT EVANSTON LODGE 524 | $49,999 |
| ILLINOIS MASONIC OUTREACH SERVICES | $3,155 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| ILLINOIS MASONIC FOUND FOR THE PRE | $3,000 |
| DISABLED PATRIOT FUND INC | $2,000 |
| SOCIETY OF KING SOLOMON | $1,000 |
| ROYAL ARCH MASONS OF ILLINOIS(EVANS | $1,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP ASSEMBLY 100 | $1,000 |
| 124 AUGUSTUS N GAGE COUNCIL | $1,000 |
| PRO SE FAMILY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +322% since the first grant, against -27% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WPWILMETTE PARK LODGE 9315× · 2020–2024 · $165k
- IMILLINOIS MASONIC OUTREACH SERVICES2× · 2024–2025 · $12k · revenue +322%
- GUGLENVIEW UNITED LODGE 10582× · 2023–2024 · $12k
Funded once
- KOKING OSCAR 855one grant, 2023 · $13k
- IMILLINOIS MASONIC STUDENT ASSISTANCEone grant, 2024 · $9k
- IIMSAPone grant, 2022 · $4k
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.
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.
The vision of operation m46 is to ignite a revolution. the definition of a revolution is the physical overthrow of a current social order. the current social order is not only characterized by fatherless homes but also visionless homes…
Organization was established to assist fathers with the stresses and pressures of parenting.
Promote the father's importance in raising children in the family
Create and help a community of fathers
Organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide support to low income fathers as they navigate child custody and child support processes.
Fathers Organizations primary purpose was to help disenfranchised fathers reconnect with their kids and families. Upon doing this we provided mentoring, job readiness, job placement, child support help, education services, as well as drug…
Empowering fatherless folks through education and training
Our movement services families primarily through creating spaces of learning, support, and growth for fathers. the fathers we help become integral parts of their family and their communities. fmp works to ensure that fathers have pathways…
Work with mens to promote healthy romance and fatherhood
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 27 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Masonic Foundation of Wilmette funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Masonic Foundation of Wilmette. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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