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North Dakota Masonic Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$89k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$31k
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, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$262kEducation$258kArts & Culture$246kHuman Services$193kCommunity Improvement$80kPublic Benefit$55kEnvironment$47kYouth Development$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $67k
$9,729
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL GUARD ASSOCIATION OF NORTH DAKOTA$31,000
KNOW YOUR STATE CONTEST$21,193
STUDENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM$14,975
Individual grant recipient$9,729
Individual grant recipient$5,250
PEACE GARDEN LODGE BLDG FUND$3,810
Individual grant recipient$3,482
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%KNIGHTS TEMPLAR EYE FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%HOUSE OF THE TEMPLE HISTORIC PRES FND INC: $50k → 14%MASONIC SERVICE ASSOCIATION: $20k → 9%ND COUNCIL OF EDUCATIONAL LEADERS: $15k → 10%THEODORE ROOSEVELT PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY: $26k → 10%AMERICAN LEGION POST 8: $5k → 11%GRAND FORKS MASONIC CENTER PRESERVATION ASSOC: $100k → 13%GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC MEMORIAL: $50k → 9%KLINE MEMORIALS: $10k → 9%ND COUNCIL OF EDUCATIONAL LEADERS: $8k → 10%THEODORE ROOSEVELT PRESIDENTIAL LIBARARY: $25k → 10%RITE CARE CENTER: $90k → 12%KEM HOPSITAL TRANSPORTATION FUND: $15k → 13%GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC MEMORIAL: $20k → 9%KLINE MEMORIALS: $5k → 9%ROBERT ASKER SPEECH THERAPY CENTER: $90k → 10%COMMUNITY GRANTS: $37k → 12%GRAND FORKS MASONIC CENTER PRESERVATION ASSOCATION: $10k → 13%ROBERT ASKER SPEECH THERAPY CENTER: $10k → 10%KNOW YOUR STATE CONTEST: $30k → 12%BISMARCK L&C LODGE 132: $6k → 10%STUDENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $23k → 12%STUDENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $22k → 12%KNOW YOUR STATE CONTEST: $21k → 12%KNOW YOUR STATE CONTEST: $20k → 12%STUDENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $20k → 12%STUDENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $17k → 12%EL ZAGAL HOSPITAL TRANSPORTATION FUND: $15k → 12%STUDENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $15k → 12%STUDENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $15k → 12%KNOW YOUR STATE CONTEST: $15k → 12%KNOW YOUR STATE CONTEST: $14k → 12%MASONIC SITE MAINTENANCE: $11k → 12%NORTH DAKOTA SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION: $11k → 12%MASONIC SITE MAINTENANCE: $10k → 12%RITE CARE CENTER: $10k → 12%STUDENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $10k → 12%MASONIC SITE MAINTENANCE: $9k → 12%COMMUNITY GRANTS: $9k → 12%KNOW YOUR STATE CONTEST: $8k → 12%VARIOUS ND COMMUNITIES: $6k → 12%MASONIC SITE MAINTENANCE: $6k → 12%MASONIC SITE MAINTENANCE: $6k → 12%VARIOUS ND COMMUNITIES: $6k → 12%COMMUNITY GRANTS: $5k → 12%COMMUNITY GRANTS: $5k → 12%VETERANS MEMORIAL HONOR GUARD: $100k → 12%BSA NORTHERN LIGHTS COUNCIL: $5k → 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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$847k · 16 repeat orgs$363k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
18

Total granted

$847k
$363k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+315%

Still filing today

6%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesPublic BenefitOther
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

  • SA
    STUDENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
    7× · 2019–2025 · $121k
  • GF
    GRAND FORKS MASONIC CENTER PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $110k · 86% of their budget
  • KY
    KNOW YOUR STATE CONTEST
    7× · 2019–2025 · $109k

Funded once

  • VM
    VETERANS MEMORIAL HONOR GUARD
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • ND
    North Dakota National Guard Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +315% · 51% of their budget
  • HO
    HOUSE OF THE TEMPLE HISTORIC PRES FND INC
    one grant, 2022 · $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
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 34 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/6
Grantees still filing
4/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STUDENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $121,101 · OtherSTUDENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMKNOW YOUR STATE CONTEST: $108,605 · OtherKNOW YOUR STATE CONTESTRITE CARE CENTER: $103,650 · OtherRITE CARE CENTERROBERT ASKER SPEECH THERAPY CENTER: $103,550 · OtherROBERT ASKER SPEECH THERAPY CENTERVETERANS MEMORIAL HONOR GUARD: $100,000 · OtherVETERANS MEMORIAL HONOR GUARDIndividual grant recipient: $59,600 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHOUSE OF THE TEMPLE HISTORIC PRES FND INC: $50,000 · OtherHOUSE OF THE TEMPLE HISTORIC PRES FND INCIndividual grant recipient: $47,479 · OtherNATIONAL GUARD ASSOCIATION OF NORTH DAKOTA: $43,000 · Other+19 more: $194,008 · Other+19 moreGRAND FORKS MASONIC CENTER PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION: $110,000 · Arts & CultureGRAND FORKS MASO…THE GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC NATIONAL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: $70,000 · Arts & CultureTHE GEORGE WASHI…North Dakota National Guard Foundation: $50,000 · Human ServicesKNIGHTS TEMPLAR EYE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthMasonic Service Association: $20,000 · Community ImprovementVETERAN HONOR FLIGHT OF NDMN: $4,000 · Public Benefit
Other$930,993Arts & Culture$180,000Human Services$50,000Health$25,000Community Improvement$20,000Public Benefit$4,000

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 budgetGRAND FORKS MASONIC CENTER PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION: $110,000 over 2y, 86% of budgetTHE GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC NATIONAL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: $70,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetNorth Dakota National Guard Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 51% of budgetKNIGHTS TEMPLAR EYE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMasonic Service Association: $20,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetVETERAN HONOR FLIGHT OF NDMN: $4,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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 GRAND FORKS MASONIC CENTER PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC NATIONAL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds North Dakota National Guard Foundation ↗
  • Who funds KNIGHTS TEMPLAR EYE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Masonic Service Association ↗
  • Who funds VETERAN HONOR FLIGHT OF NDMN ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to North Dakota Masonic Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to North Dakota Masonic Foundation 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 34 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-PF 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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