· Public charity
Michigan Masonic Charitable Foundation
To invest in programs and services to make life better for Michigan Masons, their families, and their communities.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 59% of Michigan Masonic Charitable Foundation’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 11 grants below total $18,906,299 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $19,384,493 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $478,194 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 $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $113k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $219k
- $250k+4 grants · $19M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CapitalOperational Support | $15,949,756 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,545,721 |
| ChapelConference Center | $556,000 |
| SAY Detroit | $500,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $218,574 |
| Chapter Charity | $43,325 |
| Michigan Masonic Youth | $36,000 |
| Outside Relief Program | $33,622 |
| MI Child ID Program | $8,301 |
| Masonic Service Association | $7,500 |
| Masonic FDN for Children Inc | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $9.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 6 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, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18M 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
- MMMichigan Masonic Home2× · 2018–2024 · $9.2M · revenue +5%
- SDSAY DETROIT9× · 2017–2025 · $4.5M · revenue +139% · 34% of their budget
- IOINTERNATIONAL ORDER OF THE RAINBOW GIRLS7× · 2017–2023 · $169k · revenue +85% · 97% of their budget
Funded once
- GMGRANT ME HOPEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +751% · 28% of their budget
- GVGRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $50k
- W4WIGS 4 KIDS OF MICHIGAN INCone grant, 2018 · $50k
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 ensure that policymakers prioritize the needs of the most challenged children from cradle to career.
To ensure all michigan children and youth with emotional, behavioral, or mental health challenges and their families live in a safe, welcoming community with access to needed services and supports.
Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place
To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
To serve individuals with disabilities by providing residential and personal support in a manner that promotes individual dignity, community integration and quality of life
Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.
Education of young people in the Montessori method
To work with parents, child care providers, businesses and the community to improve access to quality child care and early education so that every child enjoys safe, nurturing and inspiring care.
Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.
To develop and promote programs, funding, etc. for children and families.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Michigan and the most unlike its peers is Sylvia's Place. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 17. 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 — 6% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 142 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 Michigan Masonic Home ↗
- Who funds SAY DETROIT ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ORDER OF THE RAINBOW GIRLS ↗
- Who funds GRAND GUARDIAN COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN JDI ↗
- Who funds GRANT ME HOPE ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Whaley Children's Center Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CAPITAL REGION INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS HQ ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT ↗
- Who funds Mount Pleasant Discovery Museum ↗
- Who funds MASONIC FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE LAKESHORE ↗
- Who funds PINE REST CHRISTIAN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CHILD SAFE MICHIGAN ↗
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: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Dte Energy Foundation · Michigan Health Endowment Fund · Consumers Energy Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · The Skillman Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Ronald McDonald House Charities of Outstate Mi Inc · Greater Ottawa County United Way
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 Michigan Masonic Charitable Foundation 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.