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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. Each charity strives to exemplify masonic values and empower and inspire individuals to achieve their full…

$2.8M
Granted FY2022
2
Itemized grants FY2022
2
Organizations funded FY2022
0%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2022
$2.6M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2022
$2,060,253
Largest grant, FY2022
$2,060,253
Organizations funded a year
1 to 9
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Total assets, FY2022
$1.4B

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 0% of the organizations Masonic Villages of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22
Youth DevelopmentEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20222$2.6M0%
FY20212$2.2M50%
FY20201$2.0M0%
FY20195$2.2M20%
FY20189$2.9M56%
FY20176$2.8Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Arts & Culture$13MYouth Development$1.3MEducation$248kPhilanthropy$185kPublic Safety & Disaster$72kHealth$25kMembership Benefit$12kHuman Services$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of Masonic Villages of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Masonic Library and Museum of Pennsylvania$12,850,206664%
Pennsylvania Masonic Youth Foundation$1,339,325340%
Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania Charity Foundation$185,000118%
Raising A Reader$171,82015%
Friendship Fire & Hose Co 1 of Elizabethtown Pennsylvania$54,00034%
Elizabethtown Area Education Foundation$45,000231%
United Churches of Elizabethtown Area$26,32712%
Hope Within Ministries Inc$25,18932%
Masonic Service Association -$18,1701n/a
Elizabethtown Area Chamber of Commerce$11,80018%
E-Town Area Youth Alliance$8,81414%
Childrens Playroom of Lancaster County Inc$6,2931n/a
Elizabethtown College$5,34810%

Where it is load-bearing

Masonic Villages of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Masonic Library and Museum of Pennsylvania: $12,850,206 over 6y, 64% of budgetPennsylvania Masonic Youth Foundation: $1,339,325 over 3y, 40% of budgetGrand Lodge of Pennsylvania Charity Foundation: $185,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetRaising A Reader: $171,820 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetFriendship Fire & Hose Co 1 of Elizabethtown Pennsylvania: $54,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetElizabethtown Area Education Foundation: $45,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetUnited Churches of Elizabethtown Area: $26,327 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHope Within Ministries Inc: $25,189 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetElizabethtown Area Chamber of Commerce: $11,800 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetE-Town Area Youth Alliance: $8,814 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetElizabethtown College: $5,348 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Lancaster County Community FoundationPA15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lancaster County Community Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Masonic Villages of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania

How much does Masonic Villages of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania give?
Masonic Villages of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania reported 2 itemized grants totaling $2,607,325, out of $2,780,633 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Masonic Villages of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (87%), Youth Development (9%), Education (2%).
Who are Masonic Villages of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: The Masonic Library and Museum of Pennsylvania ($13M), Pennsylvania Masonic Youth Foundation ($1.3M), Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania Charity Foundation ($185k).
Does Masonic Villages of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Masonic Villages of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lancaster County Community Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Masonic Villages of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania based?
Masonic Villages of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania is based in PA.

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 13 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $437k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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