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Minnesota Masonic Charities

MINNESOTA MASONIC CHARITIES and affiliates' primary purposes are to help, aid and assist the masonic family and others, guided by the masonic principles of brotherly love, relief and truth, by (a) providing financial or other assistance to non-profit tax exempt entities that provide facilities for nursing care and elderly housing;…

$28M
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$26M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$31MScience & Tech$26MEducation$813kFood & Nutrition$557kHuman Services$335kHousing & Shelter$288kPublic Benefit$187kYouth Development$164kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 25 grants below total $26,684,619 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $28,222,204 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,537,585 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $183k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $275k
  • $250k+1 grant · $26M
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$26,179,762
THE VALLEY OF ROCHESTER SCOTTISH RITE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$74,000
CRESENT COVE$50,650
MN ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS$50,000
EAGLES HEALING NEST$50,000
RITE CARE OF MPLS-ST PAUL$50,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION - MNND CHAPTER$25,499
MN GRAND CHAPTER ORDER OF THE EASTER STAR$25,000
FACE IT FOUNDATION$25,000
VETERANS HONOR FLIGHT OF NDMN$17,611
THE SALVATION ARMY$15,106
HELPING PAWS INC$14,337
JOBS DAUGHTERS FOUNDATION OF MN$10,000
MN DEMOLAY$10,000
ANNANDALE AREA COMM FOOD SHELF$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $585k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%BUFFALO FOOD SHELF: $10k → 5%FAMILY PATHWAYS: $10k → 5%ALEXANDRA HOUSE INC: $7k → 7%NORFIELD COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER FOOD SHELF: $10k → 11%RIVERWORKS FOOD SHELF: $25k → 11%BUFFALO FOOD SHELF: $10k → 5%FAMILY PATHWAYS: $5k → 5%VALLEY OUTREACH: $5k → 6%ACBC EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF: $6k → 7%RIVERWORKS FOOD SHELF: $25k → 11%BUFFALO FOOD SHELF: $10k → 5%FAMILY PATHWAYS: $5k → 5%VALLEY OUTREACH: $5k → 6%ACBC FOOD SHELF: $5k → 7%RIVERWORKS FOOD SHELF: $24k → 11%BUFFALO FOOD SHELF: $10k → 5%FAMILY PATHWAYS: $5k → 5%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 6%RIVERWORKS FOOD SHELF: $23k → 11%BUFFALO FOOD SHELF: $10k → 5%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 6%RIVERWORKS FOOD SHELF: $19k → 11%BUFFALO FOOD SHELF: $10k → 5%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 6%RIVERWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $15k → 11%BUFFALO FOOD SHELF: $9k → 5%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 6%RIVERWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $10k → 11%SIMON SAYS GIVE INC: $10k → 6%RIVERWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $10k → 11%FAMILY PATHWAYS: $5k → 11%HELPING PAWS INC: $16k → 11%HELPING PAWS INC: $14k → 11%HELPING PAWS INC: $12k → 11%HELPING PAWS INC: $9k → 11%HELPING PAWS INC: $8k → 11%CRESENT COVE: $51k → 11%CRESENT COVE: $50k → 11%CRESENT COVE: $50k → 11%CRESENT COVE: $50k → 11%NEAR FOOD SHELF: $6k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$59M · 31 repeat orgs$272k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
15

Total granted

$59M
$204k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
-1%

Still filing today

77%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationPublic BenefitFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • MA
    MINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS
    7× · 2018–2024 · $288k · revenue +278%
  • CC
    CRESCENT COVE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $201k · revenue +46%
  • OO
    ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR OF MINNESOTA GRAND CHAPTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $166k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • MM
    MINNESOTA MASONIC CHILDREN'S CLINIC FOR COMMUNICATION DISORDERS
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -74%
  • JB
    JACK'S BASKET
    one grant, 2023 · $16k · revenue +17%
  • SS
    SIMON SAYS GIVE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -36%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Lonsdale Area Food Shelf Inc

Provide emergency food relief for the families in the Lonsdale MN region .

Food & Nutrition
2
Heavens Table Food Shelf

Provide food for hungry individuals in martin county, mn

Food & Nutrition
3
Second Harvest Northland

End hunger together in NE Minnesota and NW Wisconsin.

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4
Mn Veterans Pantry

The mn veterans pantry is committed to enhancing the lives of minnesota veterans by providing targeted financial support through grants exclusively for grocery and supply items. our current partnership with the minneapolis va medical…

Public Benefit
5
Neighbors Inc

Neighbors helping neighbors build stability to increase opportunity and well-being.in 1972, volunteers from six local faith communities came together to help their neighbors suffering from an economic crisis. the result was neighbors, inc.…

Human Services
6
Community Emergency Service Inc

Community emergency service (ces) is one of the largest food distribution nonprofits serving one of the poorest communities in the twin cities. our mission is to turn hunger into hope through three principal programs: (i) food market, (ii)…

Human Services
7
First Call for Help of Itasca County

First call for Help of Itasca County is a private, nonprofit community organization whose mission is to provide free, confidential and nonjudgement crisis intervention, active listening, and information and referral services 24 hours a…

Health
8
Hubbard County Food Shelf

Receive and dispense food to needy clients

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9
Meeker County Emergency Food Shelf

The Meeker County Emergency Food Shelf is a cooperative venture of community partners working to provide access to healthy food for those facing food insecurity. The food shelf provides a 3-5 day supply of food to those facing food…

Food & Nutrition
10
Tc Food Justice

Tc food justice is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in minneapolis, mn. since march 2016 we have been working with co-ops, grocery stores, and farmers markets to redistribute their unsellable foods to local hunger relief…

Food & Nutrition
11
Hastings Family Service

Hastings family service is a community-based nonprofit agency providing a range of emergency, supportive, and community services since 1970 to assist and guide neighbors from the hastings, minnesota, area who are struggling to meet their…

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12
Mercy House Minneapolis
Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners and the most unlike its peers is Red Wing Environmental Learning Center. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Support ServicesAccessible Supportive Housi…Early Childhood Education C…Emergency Food AssistancePublic Charter SchoolsDisability Services & Emplo…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 30 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%4%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr18%29%20–35yr14%31%35–55yr14%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%4%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%28%10–20yr18%39%20–35yr14%17%35–55yr14%11%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/52
the rest of the field
13%
2,787/21,578

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.

04the grantee network

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 53 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
27/39
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERITY OF MINNESOTA — $56,387,167 · OtherUNIVERITY OF MINNESOTA+27 more — $714,446 · OtherCRESCENT COVE — $200,650 · Human ServicesRIVERWORKS — $150,782 · Human ServicesBUFFALO FOOD SHELF — $69,269 · Human ServicesHELPING PAWS INC — $59,126 · Human ServicesFamily Pathways — $30,500 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $20,250 · Human Services+6 more — $54,408 · Human ServicesVALLEY OF ROCHESTER SCOTTISH RITE — $424,000 · HealthMINNESOTA MASONIC CHILDREN'S CLINIC FOR COMMUNICATION DISORDERS — $100,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $25,499 · Health+2 more — $23,271 · HealthRITECARE OF MINNEAPOLIS-ST PAUL INC — $417,616 · EducationFACE IT FOUNDATION — $75,000 · Education+1 more — $5,600 · EducationEAGLES HEALING NEST — $285,000 · Public BenefitVETERAN HONOR FLIGHT OF NDMN — $30,001 · Public Benefit+1 more — $5,000 · Public BenefitMINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS — $287,500 · EmploymentJOB'S DAUGHTERS INTERNATIONAL — $38,590 · Youth Development
Other$57,101,613Human Services$584,985Health$572,770Education$498,216Public Benefit$320,001Employment$287,500Youth Development$38,590

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVALLEY OF ROCHESTER SCOTTISH RITE — $424,000 over 8y, 88% of budgetRITECARE OF MINNEAPOLIS-ST PAUL INC — $417,616 over 8y, 37% of budgetMINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS — $287,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetEAGLES HEALING NEST — $285,000 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetCRESCENT COVE — $200,650 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR OF MINNESOTA GRAND CHAPTER — $165,742 over 8y, 13% of budgetRIVERWORKS — $150,782 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetNORTHERN STAR COUNCIL — $110,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetFACE IT FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetBUFFALO FOOD SHELF — $69,269 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetANNANDALE FOOD SHELF — $60,119 over 7y, 7.8% of budgetHELPING PAWS INC — $59,126 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetJOB'S DAUGHTERS INTERNATIONAL — $38,590 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetFamily Pathways — $30,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVETERAN HONOR FLIGHT OF NDMN — $30,001 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $25,499 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $20,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $19,027 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJACK'S BASKET — $16,271 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRED WING USS SWIM CLUB — $14,743 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetROCK COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY — $13,132 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $12,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANOKA COUNTY BROTHERHOOD COUNCIL INC — $10,747 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetValley Outreach — $10,700 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSIMON SAYS GIVE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION CENTER INC — $9,600 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC — $8,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHLAND ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC — $7,805 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetRED WING ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER — $7,360 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetALEXANDRA HOUSE INC — $7,102 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAvera Health — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SUBURBAN EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE RESPONSE INC — $6,259 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRED WING PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $6,066 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetRED COTTAGE MONTESSORI SCHOOL — $5,600 over 1y, 1.0% of budget
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.

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.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…Hunger Solutions Minn…Xcel Energy FoundationEdina Realty Foundati…Mightycause Charitabl…The Minneapolis Found…Allina Health SystemOtto Bremer TrustThe Graco FoundationCh Robinson Worldwide…Tradition Family Foun…Land O'Lakes Foundati…
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN32.1× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Hunger Solutions Minnesota · Xcel Energy Foundation · Edina Realty Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Allina Health System · Otto Bremer Trust · The Graco Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Tradition Family Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation

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 Minnesota Masonic Charities 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Minnesota Masonic Charities?

Find your warmest path to Minnesota Masonic Charities 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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