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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 FY2024(still arriving)
- 25
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $27M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $26,179,762
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 23
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $29M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 24% of the organizations Minnesota Masonic Charities funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 25 | $27M | 28% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $434k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $417k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $346k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $31M | 22% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $293k | 10% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $328k | 43% |
| FY2017 | 15 | $327k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Univerity of Minnesota | $56,387,167 | 2 | n/a |
| Valley of Rochester Scottish Rite | $424,000 | 8 | 88% |
| Ritecare of Minneapolis-St Paul Inc | $417,616 | 8 | 37% |
| Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans | $287,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Eagles Healing Nest | $285,000 | 7 | 5% |
| Crescent Cove | $200,650 | 4 | 2% |
| Order of the Eastern Star of Minnesota Grand Chapter | $165,742 | 8 | 13% |
| Riverworks | $150,782 | 8 | 4% |
| Northern Star Council | $110,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Minnesota Masonic Children's Clinic for Communication Disorders | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 52 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($6k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Minnesota Masonic Charities supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Minnesota Masonic Charities
- How much does Minnesota Masonic Charities give?
- Minnesota Masonic Charities reported 25 itemized grants totaling $26,684,619, out of $28,222,204 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Minnesota Masonic Charities fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (52%), Science & Tech (44%), Education (1%).
- Who are Minnesota Masonic Charities's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Univerity of Minnesota ($56M), Valley of Rochester Scottish Rite ($424k), Ritecare of Minneapolis-St Paul Inc ($418k).
- Does Minnesota Masonic Charities fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Minnesota Masonic Charities?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Hunger Solutions Minnesota, Xcel Energy Foundation.
- Where is Minnesota Masonic Charities based?
- Minnesota Masonic Charities is based in MN.
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