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Masonic Service Association
The mission of the Association is the service of mankind through education and enlightenment, financial relief, Masonic visitation, ministering to, comforting, and relieving the members of the fraternity and their dependents.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k3 grants · $464k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Grand Lodge of North Carolina | $250,000 |
| The Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free & Accepted Msaons of Florida | $190,000 |
| Hawaii Masonic Charities of Hawaii | $149,176 |
| Grand Lodge of South Carolina | $125,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 72% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $375k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- FAFree & Accepted Masons of Florida Most Worshipful Grand Lodge3× · 2017–2024 · $879k · revenue +96%
- GLGRAND LODGE OF LA F & A MASONS4× · 2017–2022 · $318k · revenue +1%
- GLGRAND LODGE OF FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS OF CALIFORNIA2× · 2018–2019 · $213k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- TGTHE GRAND LODGE OF KENTUCKY FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONSone grant, 2022 · $393k · revenue -15%
- GLGRAND LODGE OF ANCIENT FREE MASONS OF SC INCone grant, 2018 · $148k · revenue +2%
- FAFREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF NEBRASKA GRAND LODGE OF THE MOST ANCIENT &one grant, 2019 · $140k · revenue +23%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To be the supreme legislative authority of lodges of ancient free and accepted masons of montana
To supervise and govern the massachusetts masonic fraternity
To impart morality, ethics and teach mutual services to its members. free masonry is taught by experience to serve god, help his fellow man and better himself.
Preserve fraternal union among its membership and to promote charitable services among its members and the community.
Freemasons of washington will be recognized as a relevant and respected fraternity, commited to attracting and retaining all men of high quality who strive for self improvement and the opportunity to make a positive difference in their…
To collect fees & dues from allnys lodges, hold annual communications meetings, run operations of livingston library, masonic brotherhood, collect & distribute funds for various benevolent programs.
Fraternal organization
Our focus is to provide financial assistance to master masons, their widows, and orphans, as well as support the communities in which we live.
To promote the high ideals and charitable purposes of freemasonry.
Fraternal association
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grand Lodge of La F & a Masons and the most unlike its peers is Grand Lodge Afm Charities Disaster Relief. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE GRAND LODGE OF TEXAS ANCIENT FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS ↗
- Who funds Free & Accepted Masons of Florida Most Worshipful Grand Lodge ↗
- Who funds MASONIC CHARITIES OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds THE GRAND LODGE OF KENTUCKY FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS ↗
- Who funds GRAND LODGE OF LA F & A MASONS ↗
- Who funds THE GRAND LODGE OF AF AND AM OF NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds GRAND LODGE OF FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds GRAND LODGE OF ANCIENT FREE MASONS OF SC INC ↗
- Who funds FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF NEBRASKA GRAND LODGE OF THE MOST ANCIENT & ↗
- Who funds GRAND LODGE OF IOWA AF & AM ↗
- Who funds GRAND LODGE AFM CHARITIES DISASTER RELIEF ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Masonic Service Association funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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