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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.

$2.8M
Granted FY2022
2
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$2.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2022.

Arts & Culture$13MYouth Development$1.3MEducation$248kPhilanthropy$185kPublic Safety & Disaster$72kHealth$25kMembership Benefit$12kHuman Services$6k
02FY2022 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $2,607,325, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,780,633 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $173,308 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$2,060,253
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE MASONIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF P$2,060,253
PA MASONIC YOUTH FOUNDATION$547,072
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 (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PENNSYLVANIA MASONIC YOUTH: $435k → 9%THE MASONIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF P: $2.4M → 22%RAISING A READER: $172k → 7%MASONIC SERVICE ASSOCIATION: $18k → 8%PENNSYLVANIA MASONIC YOUTH FOUNDATI: $358k → 9%THE MASONIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF P: $2.2M → 22%ELIZABETHTOWN AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $30k → 9%THE MASONIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF P: $2.1M → 22%UNITED CHURCHES OF THE: $26k → 9%THE MASONIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF P: $2.1M → 22%FRIENDSHIP FIRE AND HOSE COMPANY: $18k → 9%THE MASONIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF P: $2.0M → 22%FRIENDSHIP FIRE AND HOSE COMPANY: $18k → 9%THE MASONIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF P: $2.0M → 22%FRIENDSHIP FIRE AND HOSE COMPANY: $18k → 9%PA MASONIC YOUTH FOUNDATION: $547k → 22%ELIZABETHTOWN AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $15k → 9%GRAND LODGE OF PENNSYLVANIA CHARITY: $185k → 22%ELIZABETHTOWN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $12k → 9%HOPE WITHIN MINISTRIES INC: $10k → 9%HOPE WITHIN MINISTRIES INC: $9k → 9%COMMUNITIES THAT CARE: $9k → 9%CHILDREN'S PLAY ROOM OF LANCASTER: $6k → 9%HOPE WITHIN MINISTRIES INC: $6k → 9%ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE: $5k → 9%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.
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 5 repeat orgs$434k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
8

Total granted

$14M
$434k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+23%

Still filing today

60%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
EducationPublic Safety & DisasterHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TM
    THE MASONIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF PENNSYLVANIA
    6× · 2017–2022 · $13M · revenue +7% · 64% of their budget
  • FF
    FRIENDSHIP FIRE & HOSE CO 1 OF ELIZABETHTOWN PENNSYLVANIA
    3× · 2017–2019 · $54k · revenue +15%
  • EA
    ELIZABETHTOWN AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2019 · $45k · revenue +71% · 31% of their budget

Funded once

  • GL
    GRAND LODGE OF PENNSYLVANIA CHARITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $185k · revenue -74%
  • RA
    Raising A Readergraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $172k · revenue +30%
  • UC
    UNITED CHURCHES OF ELIZABETHTOWN AREA
    one grant, 2018 · $26k · revenue +23%
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
Elizabethtown Healthcare Foundation
Health
2
Kiwanis Club of Elizabethtown Foundation Inc
Human Services
3
Elizabeth City Foundation Committee
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4
Elizabethtown Social Center Inc
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5
Elizabeth City Area Chamber of Com

To promote business development within the city of elizabeth city and pasquotank and camden counties.

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6
Easthampton Learning Foundation
Education
7
Elizabethtown Public Library

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,…

Education
8
The Elizabethtown Fire Protection Endowment Fund Inc

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.…

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Elfreths Alley Association Inc

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.

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10
Elizabethtown Christian Academy Inc

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.

Education
11
Eastern Lancaster County Library

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,…

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12
Eastern Mennonite University

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elizabethtown Area Education Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 13 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE MASONIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF PENNSYLVANIA: $12,850,206 · OtherTHE MASONIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF PENNSYLVANIAPENNSYLVANIA MASONIC YOUTH FOUNDATION: $1,339,325 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA MASONIC YOUTH FOUNDATION+6 more: $292,590 · OtherRaising A Reader: $171,820 · Education+1 more: $5,348 · EducationFRIENDSHIP FIRE & HOSE CO 1 OF ELIZABETHTOWN PENNSYLVANIA: $54,000 · Public Safety & DisasterHOPE WITHIN MINISTRIES INC: $25,189 · HealthE-TOWN AREA YOUTH ALLIANCE: $8,814 · Youth Development
Other$14,482,121Education$177,168Public Safety & Disaster$54,000Health$25,189Youth Development$8,814

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

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

Lancaster County Comm…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.

    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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