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Master Wardens and Members of the Lodge of St Andrew
The lodge of st.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $94,508 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $104,508 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $10,000 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $47k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOSTON PUBLIC HOUSINGCHARLESTOWN | $15,000 |
| SCHOONER ADVENTURES | $12,000 |
| LITTLE COMPTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| TENACITY | $10,000 |
| PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND | $9,500 |
| PAUL REVERE MEMORIAL | $7,500 |
| ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC | $7,500 |
| ACTORS' SHAKESPEARE PROJECT | $6,075 |
| MASONIC EDUCATION & CHARITY TRUST | $5,933 |
| OUR SISTERS' SCHOOL | $5,600 |
| ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $5,400 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of Master Wardens and Members of the Lodge of St Andrew’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 85% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- PRPAUL REVERE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2025 · $54k · revenue +64%
- EIETM-MASSACHUSETTS INC3× · 2021–2024 · $38k · revenue +128%
- TGTHE GLOUCESTER ADVENTUREINC3× · 2021–2025 · $32k · revenue +23%
Funded once
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +193%- CRCOMMUNITY ROWING INCone grant, 2021 · $38k · revenue -18%
- FFFAMILY & FRIENDS OF BROCKTON WRESTLING INCone grant, 2022 · $13k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Boston children's museum engages children and families in joyful discovery experiences that instill an appreciation of our world, develop foundational skills, and spark a lifelong love of learning. boston children's museum is a welcoming,…
Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Northfield mount hermon educates the head, heart and hands of our students. we engage their intellect, compassion, and talents, empowering them to act with humanity and purpose.
Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Our Sisters School and the most unlike its peers is Massachusetts Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
35 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. 35 of the 46 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 BEEHIVE ANGELS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PAUL REVERE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER LYNN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ROWING INC ↗
- Who funds ETM-MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE GLOUCESTER ADVENTUREINC ↗
- Who funds ACTORS' SHAKESPEARE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE FESSENDEN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds REVOLUTIONARY SPACES INC ↗
- Who funds Little Compton Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds AARONS PRESENTS INC ↗
- Who funds Captain Forbes House Museum ↗
- Who funds OUR SISTERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON PUBLIC HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds POWER FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds NEADS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CRISPUS ATTUCKS CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY REACH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CELIAC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALEM INC ↗
- Who funds MARGARET FULLER NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds MOSAIC INTERFAITH YOUTH ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds SPOONFULS ↗
- Who funds THE SALEM MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Camp O-AT-KA Inc ↗
- Who funds RAW ART WORKS INC ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Fidelity Foundation · Rogers Family Foundation · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc
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 Master Wardens and Members of the Lodge of St Andrew 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Captain Forbes House Museum — 100% of income from government
- Massachusetts Historical Society — 22% of income from government
- Revolutionary Spaces Inc — 20% of income from government
- Doc Wayne Inc — 15% of income from government
- Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
- Actors' Shakespeare Project — 6% of income from government
- The Salem Mission Inc — 4% of income from government
- Community Rowing Inc — 2% of income from government
- Masonic Education & Charity Trust — 2% of income from government
- Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% of income from government
- Neads Inc — 1% of income from government
- Paul Revere Memorial Association — 1% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Our Sisters School — 0% of income from government
- The Fessenden School — 0% of income from government
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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