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Michigan Masonic Charitable Foundation

To invest in programs and services to make life better for Michigan Masons, their families, and their communities.

$19M
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$16M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Membership Benefit$18MHuman Services$10MCommunity Improvement$4.1MYouth Development$667kReligion$585kArts & Culture$267kHealth$248kEducation$150kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $18,906,299, the rows itemized in this filing. The $19,384,493 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $478,194 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 $10k3 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $113k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $219k
  • $250k+4 grants · $19M
$43,325
Median grant
3
States reached
$137M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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 FDN for Children Inc$7,500
Masonic Service Association$7,500
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SYLVIA'S PLACE: $15k → 10%BLUM'S LANDING: $1k → 12%MICHIGAN MASONIC HOME: $8.2M → 12%WHALEY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $49k → 16%CHILD SAFE MICHIGAN: $25k → 21%GRANT ME HOPE: $50k → 10%MICHIGAN MASONIC HOME: $1.0M → 12%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.

42%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 17 repeat orgs$20M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
117

Total granted

$15M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+50%

Still filing today

35%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18M 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
Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • MM
    Michigan Masonic Home
    2× · 2018–2024 · $9.2M · revenue +5%
  • SD
    SAY DETROIT
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.5M · revenue +139% · 34% of their budget
  • IO
    INTERNATIONAL ORDER OF THE RAINBOW GIRLS
    7× · 2017–2023 · $169k · revenue +85% · 97% of their budget

Funded once

  • MC
    MOTOR CITY VETERANS VILLAGE
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • BS
    BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +24%
  • GV
    GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
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
Michigan's Children

To ensure that policymakers prioritize the needs of the most challenged children from cradle to career.

Human Services
2
Association for Children's Mental Health

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.

Health
3
Girl Scouts Heart of Michigan

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

Youth Development
4
Big Brothers Big Sisters Michigan Capital Region Inc

To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

Youth Development
5
Macomb Residential Opportunities Inc

To serve individuals with disabilities by providing residential and personal support in a manner that promotes individual dignity, community integration and quality of life

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6
Michigan Assoc of Community Mental Health Boards

Assisting the community mental health boards of michigan in developing methods for mental health planning, care and treatment.

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7
Montessori Childrens House of Lenawee Inc

Education of young people in the Montessori method

Human Services
8
Child Care Resource and Referral of Kalamazoo

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.

Human Services
9
Michigan Family Resources

Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.

Education
10
Michigan Federation for Children and Families

To develop and promote programs, funding, etc. for children and families.

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11
Business Leaders for Michigan

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.…

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12
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

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.…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Michigan; 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.
04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 142 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/39
Grantees still filing
30/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CapitalOperational Support: $15,949,756 · OtherCapitalOperational SupportIndividual grant recipient: $1,545,721 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+121 more: $3,009,184 · Other+121 moreMichigan Masonic Home: $9,238,641 · Human ServicesMichigan Masonic Home+6 more: $150,353 · Human ServicesSAY DETROIT: $4,500,000 · Housing & ShelterSAY DETROIT+1 more: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentMASONIC FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN: $25,000 · HealthPINE REST CHRISTIAN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES: $25,000 · HealthMARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL: $10,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthMount Pleasant Discovery Museum: $33,304 · Arts & CultureLAHC - LEADERS ADVANCING AND HELPING COMMUNITIES: $15,000 · Arts & CultureHOPE RESOURCES: $25,000 · Food & NutritionKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC: $15,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$20,504,661Human Services$9,388,994Housing & Shelter$4,540,000Youth Development$75,000Health$65,000Arts & Culture$48,304Food & Nutrition$40,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMichigan Masonic Home: $9,238,641 over 2y, 24% of budgetSAY DETROIT: $4,500,000 over 9y, 34% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ORDER OF THE RAINBOW GIRLS: $168,937 over 7y, 97% of budgetGRAND GUARDIAN COUNCIL OF MICHIGAN JDI: $147,250 over 7y, 29% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRANT ME HOPE: $50,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetWhaley Children's Center Inc: $49,353 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CAPITAL REGION INC: $40,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS HQ: $38,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $35,500 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetMount Pleasant Discovery Museum: $33,304 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE LAKESHORE: $25,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetCHILD SAFE MICHIGAN: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budget826 MICHIGAN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetMASONIC FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN INC: $25,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPINE REST CHRISTIAN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEXCEL EMPLOYMENT OPTIONS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMOSAIC COUNSELING: $20,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetCENTRAL DETROIT CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $18,850 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSYLVIA'S PLACE: $15,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetLAHC - LEADERS ADVANCING AND HELPING COMMUNITIES: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLENAWEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMasonic Service Association: $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE SHOP RAT FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetNORTHERN MICHIGAN CHILDREN'S ASSESSMENT CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMARY FREE BED REHABILITATION HOSPITAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKESHORE BAND PARENTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWE CARE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB GRAND RAPIDS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLUM'S LANDING INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.9% 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.

  • 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 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds GRANT ME HOPE ↗
  • 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 BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE LAKESHORE ↗
  • Who funds HOPE RESOURCES ↗
  • Who funds CHILD SAFE MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds 826 MICHIGAN INC ↗
  • Who funds MASONIC FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds PINE REST CHRISTIAN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ↗

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.

Community Foundation …DTE Energy FoundationMichigan Health Endow…Consumers Energy Foun…Heart of West Michiga…Grand Haven Area Comm…The Community Foundat…The Skillman Foundati…United Way for Southe…Charles Stewart Mott …Ronald McDonald House…Greater Ottawa County…
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI21.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Michigan Masonic Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michigan Masonic Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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.

    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 142 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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