· Public charity
Masonic Villages of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania
The masonic village supports the operations of its senior living communities, the masonic children's home, the masonic library and museum of pennsylvania, the masonic youth foundation and the masonic blood + organ donor program.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 98% of MASONIC VILLAGES OF THE GRAND LODGE OF PENNSYLVANIA’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $2,607,325 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,780,633 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $173,308 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE MASONIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF P | $2,060,253 |
| PA MASONIC YOUTH FOUNDATION | $547,072 |
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 (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down.
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 FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TMTHE MASONIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF PENNSYLVANIA6× · 2017–2022 · $13M · revenue +7% · 64% of their budget
- FFFRIENDSHIP FIRE & HOSE CO 1 OF ELIZABETHTOWN PENNSYLVANIA3× · 2017–2019 · $54k · revenue +15%
- EAELIZABETHTOWN AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2019 · $45k · revenue +71% · 31% of their budget
Funded once
- GLGRAND LODGE OF PENNSYLVANIA CHARITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $185k · revenue -74%
- RARaising A Readergraduatedone grant, 2017 · $172k · revenue +30%
- UCUNITED CHURCHES OF ELIZABETHTOWN AREAone grant, 2018 · $26k · revenue +11%
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 promote business development within the city of elizabeth city and pasquotank and camden counties.
Making dreams come true: educating, empowering, and enriching the greater elizabethtown area by stimulating learning, literacy, and the acquisition of knowledge through the provision of educational, informational, and recreational books,…
The specific purpose of the corporation is to obtain, accumulate, manage, and maintain a fund or source of monies which will insure continued capital asset funding for the friendship fire & hose company 1 of elizabethtown, pennsylvania.…
The misssion of the elfreth's alley association is to preserve and protect the elfreth's alley historic district, while interpreting the contributions of everday philadelphians to our american story.
The mission of elizabethtown christian academy (eca) exists to build a solid foundation in an individuals life by providing a child with an excellent education that centers on biblical truth, academic achievement and character development.
The library's mission is to provide free access to information, education, technology, services and enterrainment to facilitate an informed society. the vision of the library is to be highly valued community source of information,…
A leader among faith-based universities Eastern Mennonite University emphasizes peace-building creation care experiential learning and intercultural engagement. Founded in 1917 in Harrisonburg Virginia EMU is an educational institution of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elizabethtown Area Education Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Elizabethtown College. 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 13 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 MASONIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA MASONIC YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRAND LODGE OF PENNSYLVANIA CHARITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Raising A Reader ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP FIRE & HOSE CO 1 OF ELIZABETHTOWN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETHTOWN AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED CHURCHES OF ELIZABETHTOWN AREA ↗
- Who funds HOPE WITHIN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETHTOWN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds E-TOWN AREA YOUTH ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Lancaster County Community Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Masonic Villages of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania 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.