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Master Wardens and Members of the Lodge of St Andrew at a glance

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Master Wardens and Members of the Lodge of St Andrew

The lodge of st.

$105k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
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 2025.

Arts & Culture$242kEducation$105kHuman Services$105kYouth Development$99kRecreation & Sports$75kPhilanthropy$48kHealth$32kFood & Nutrition$29kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $94,508, the rows itemized in this filing. The $104,508 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $10,000 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $47k
$7,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%NEADS INC: $10k → 11%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF LYNN: $18k → 10%LIFESCENE - FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICE: $13k → 10%MARGARET FULLER HOUSE: $10k → 8%LIFEBRIDGE NORTH SHORE: $8k → 10%CRISPUS ATTUCKS CHILDREN'S CENTER: $10k → 16%TENACITY: $10k → 16%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 14% of Master Wardens and Members of the Lodge of St Andrew’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 85%.

Master Wardens and Members of the Lodge of St Andrewlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$423k · 14 repeat orgs$366k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
30

Total granted

$423k
$345k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+40%

Still filing today

93%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthYouth 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

  • PR
    PAUL REVERE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $54k · revenue +64%
  • EI
    ETM-MASSACHUSETTS INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $38k · revenue +128%
  • TG
    THE GLOUCESTER ADVENTUREINC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $32k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +193%
  • CR
    COMMUNITY ROWING INC
    one grant, 2021 · $38k · revenue -18%
  • FF
    FAMILY & FRIENDS OF BROCKTON WRESTLING INC
    one grant, 2022 · $13k
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
3
Buckingham Browne & Nichols School

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…

Education
4
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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5
The Childrens Museum

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,…

Arts & Culture
6
Phillips Exeter Academy

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…

Education
7
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
8
New England Lawboston

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…

Education
9
Dean College

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,…

Education
10
Trustees of Boston University

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.…

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11
Northfield Mount Hermon School

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.

Education
12
Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts Inc

Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Our Sisters School; 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.
05the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 46 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
26/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PAUL REVERE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: $54,400 · Arts & CulturePAUL REVERE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATIONMASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETYETM-MASSACHUSETTS INC: $37,690 · Arts & CultureETM-MASSACHUSETTS INCTHE GLOUCESTER ADVENTUREINC: $32,000 · Arts & CultureTHE GLOUCESTER ADVENTUREINCACTORS' SHAKESPEARE PROJECT: $30,225 · Arts & CultureACTORS' SHAKESPEARE PROJECTREVOLUTIONARY SPACES INC: $24,500 · Arts & CultureREVOLUTIONARY SPACES INCLittle Compton Historical Society Inc: $24,250 · Arts & CultureLittle Compton Historical Society IncARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INCCOMMUNITY ROWING INC: $37,800 · OtherCOMMUNITY ROWING INCAARONS PRESENTS INC: $20,000 · OtherAARONS PRESENTS INCCaptain Forbes House Museum: $15,988 · OtherCaptain Forbes House MuseumFAMILY & FRIENDS OF BROCKTON WRESTLING INC: $12,650 · OtherFAMILY & FRIENDS OF BROCKTON WRE…GRACE CITY CHURCH OF BOSTON: $12,600 · OtherGRACE CITY CHURCH OF BOSTONPROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: $10,000 · OtherLAZARUS HOUSE CHARITIES: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherMUSIC FOR SCHOOLS INC: $10,000 · OtherTEWKSBURY FOOD PANTRY: $10,000 · OtherBOSTON PUBLIC HOUSING CORPORATION: $15,000 · OtherBOSTON PUBLIC HOUSING CORPORATIO…SPOONFULS: $8,000 · Other+7 more: $47,433 · Other+7 moreBEEHIVE ANGELS FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 · PhilanthropyBEEHIVE ANGE…Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office: $10,000 · PhilanthropyBoston Chari…CHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN'S D…FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER LYNN INC: $41,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY & CH…NEADS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesNEADS INCTHE CRISPUS ATTUCKS CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE CRISPUS…MARGARET FULLER NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $10,000 · Human ServicesMARGARET FU…THE SALEM MISSION INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesTHE SALEM M…THE FESSENDEN SCHOOL: $30,000 · EducationTHE FESSEN…OUR SISTERS SCHOOL: $15,600 · EducationOUR SISTER…ESPERANZA ACADEMY INC: $12,000 · EducationESPERANZA …THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $10,000 · EducationTHE EPIPHA…MACKINTOSH ACADEMY: $5,138 · EducationMACKINTOSH…POWER FORWARD INC: $11,700 · HealthFAMILY REACH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthNATIONAL CELIAC ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · HealthBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALEM INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentMOSAIC INTERFAITH YOUTH ACTION INC: $8,500 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$268,065Other$229,471Philanthropy$90,000Human Services$79,000Education$72,738Health$31,700Youth Development$18,500

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 budgetBEEHIVE ANGELS FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetPAUL REVERE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: $54,400 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER LYNN INC: $41,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY ROWING INC: $37,800 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetETM-MASSACHUSETTS INC: $37,690 over 3y, 11% of budgetTHE GLOUCESTER ADVENTUREINC: $32,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetACTORS' SHAKESPEARE PROJECT: $30,225 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE FESSENDEN SCHOOL: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREVOLUTIONARY SPACES INC: $24,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLittle Compton Historical Society Inc: $24,250 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetCaptain Forbes House Museum: $15,988 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetOUR SISTERS SCHOOL: $15,600 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBOSTON PUBLIC HOUSING CORPORATION: $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetESPERANZA ACADEMY INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPOWER FORWARD INC: $11,700 over 1y, 12% of budgetBoston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CRISPUS ATTUCKS CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SALEM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY REACH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARGARET FULLER NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL CELIAC ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMOSAIC INTERFAITH YOUTH ACTION INC: $8,500 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetTHE SALEM MISSION INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSPOONFULS: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCamp O-AT-KA Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRAW ART WORKS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDOC WAYNE INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMACKINTOSH ACADEMY: $5,138 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Highland Street Conne…Cummings Foundation G…United Way Of Massach…Bushrod H Campbell & …Fidelity FoundationRogers Family Foundat…Riley Mabel Louise Tr…The Hamilton Company …Massachusetts Foundat…Essex County Communit…
Boston Foundation IncMA31.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Master Wardens and Members of the Lodge of St Andrew funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Master Wardens and Members of the Lodge of St Andrew. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Master Wardens and Members of the Lodge of St Andrew 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 46 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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