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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.

$714k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$250k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$4.9MMembership Benefit$140k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k3 grants · $464k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$190,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 72% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Grand Lodge of Nebraska: $140k → 13%Grand Lodge of California: $113k → 10%Hawaii Masonic Charities of Hawaii: $248k → 9%The Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free & Accepted Msaons of Florida: $190k → 14%Grand Lodge of North Carolina: $350k → 8%Grand Lodge of Louisiana: $154k → 19%Grand Lodge of Kentucky: $393k → 15%Grand Lodge of California: $100k → 10%Hawaii Masonic Charities of Hawaii: $149k → 9%Grand Lodge of North Carolina: $250k → 8%Grand Lodge of Louisiana: $100k → 19%Grand Lodge of North Carolina: $25k → 8%Grand Lodge of Louisiana: $19k → 19%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IA
CA
NE
KY
NC
SC
HI
LA
TX
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 8 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
4

Total granted

$3.9M
$813k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-3%
+18%

Still filing today

63%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $375k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Membership BenefitCrime & LegalPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • TG
    THE GRAND LODGE OF TEXAS ANCIENT FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS
    2× · 2017–2018 · $913k · revenue -17%
  • FA
    Free & Accepted Masons of Florida Most Worshipful Grand Lodge
    3× · 2017–2024 · $879k · revenue +96%
  • GL
    Grand Lodge of Puerto Rico
    2× · 2017–2018 · $693k

Funded once

  • TG
    THE GRAND LODGE OF KENTUCKY FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS
    one grant, 2022 · $393k · revenue -15%
  • GL
    GRAND LODGE OF ANCIENT FREE MASONS OF SC INC
    one grant, 2018 · $148k · revenue +18%
  • FA
    FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF NEBRASKA GRAND LODGE OF THE MOST ANCIENT &
    one grant, 2019 · $140k · revenue +1%
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.

1
Ancient Free & Accepted Masons of Montana Grand Lodge

To be the supreme legislative authority of lodges of ancient free and accepted masons of montana

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2
Grand Lodge of Florida Museum & Library Inc
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3
Masonic Grand Lodge Charities of Rhode Island Inc
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4
Master Wardens and Members of the Grand Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts

To supervise and govern the massachusetts masonic fraternity

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5
Free & Accpted Masons of Georgia Duluth Lodge 480

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.

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6
Free &Accepted Masons of Nygrand Lodge

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.

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7
Grand Lodge of Af & Am of Minnesota

Preserve fraternal union among its membership and to promote charitable services among its members and the community.

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8
The Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Washington

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…

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9
M W Prince Hall Grand Lodge Free and Accepted Masons of Louisiana

To render service to the people of our communities through unity and brotherly love and to improve their cultural, social and economic conditions

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10
Free & Accepted Masons of Arkansas

Fraternal organization

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11
Charitable Foundation of the Grand Lodge of Ohio

Our focus is to provide financial assistance to master masons, their widows, and orphans, as well as support the communities in which we live.

Philanthropy
12
The Alabama Masonic Home Inc

Support the charitable activities of the grand lodge of free & accepted masons of alabama

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grand Lodge of La F & a Masons; 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.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE GRAND LODGE OF TEXAS ANCIENT FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS: $912,797 · OtherTHE GRAND LODGE OF TEXAS ANCIENT FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONSGrand Lodge of Puerto Rico: $692,592 · OtherGrand Lodge of Puerto RicoTHE GRAND LODGE OF KENTUCKY FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS: $392,807 · OtherTHE GRAND LODGE OF KENTUCKY FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONSGrand Lodge of North Carolina: $375,189 · OtherGrand Lodge of North CarolinaGRAND LODGE OF LA F & A MASONS: $317,605 · OtherGRAND LODGE OF LA F & A MASONSTHE GRAND LODGE OF AF AND AM OF NORTH CAROLINA: $250,000 · OtherTHE GRAND LODGE OF AF AND AM OF NORTH CAROLINAGRAND LODGE OF FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS OF CALIFORNIA: $212,549 · OtherGRAND LODGE OF FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS OF CALIFORNIAGRAND LODGE OF ANCIENT FREE MASONS OF SC INC: $148,037 · OtherFREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF NEBRASKA GRAND LODGE OF THE MOST ANCIENT &: $140,000 · OtherGRAND LODGE OF IOWA AF & AM: $132,072 · Other+1 more: $106,239 · OtherFree & Accepted Masons of Florida Most Worshipful Grand Lodge: $879,306 · Membership BenefitFree & Accepted Mas…MASONIC CHARITIES OF HAWAII: $396,891 · Crime & LegalGRAND LODGE AFM CHARITIES DISASTER RELIEF: $125,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$3,679,887Membership Benefit$879,306Crime & Legal$396,891Public Safety & Disaster$125,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE GRAND LODGE OF TEXAS ANCIENT FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS: $912,797 over 2y, 25% of budgetFree & Accepted Masons of Florida Most Worshipful Grand Lodge: $879,306 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetMASONIC CHARITIES OF HAWAII: $396,891 over 2y, 85% of budgetTHE GRAND LODGE OF KENTUCKY FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS: $392,807 over 1y, 19% of budgetGRAND LODGE OF LA F & A MASONS: $317,605 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetTHE GRAND LODGE OF AF AND AM OF NORTH CAROLINA: $250,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetGRAND LODGE OF FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS OF CALIFORNIA: $212,549 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetGRAND LODGE OF ANCIENT FREE MASONS OF SC INC: $148,037 over 1y, 17% of budgetFREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF NEBRASKA GRAND LODGE OF THE MOST ANCIENT &: $140,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetGRAND LODGE OF IOWA AF & AM: $132,072 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetGRAND LODGE AFM CHARITIES DISASTER RELIEF: $125,000 over 1y, 73% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Masonic Service Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Masonic Service Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%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
    1get 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Masonic Service Association?

    Find your warmest path to Masonic Service Association 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 14 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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