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The Masonic and Eastern Star Home Charit

To provide for the welfare and care of needy sisters of the grand chapter, oes, and brothers of the grand lodge, faam of the district of columbia, their spouses and dependent children, and contribute, as far as possible, to the charitable needs of others.

$160k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of THE MASONIC AND EASTERN STAR HOME CHARIT’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.

02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 6 grants below total $56,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $160,370 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $104,370 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 $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$43M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$10,000
CREATIVE VISIONS$10,000
ARTSTREAM INC$10,000
GRAND CHAPTER OF THE ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR OF THE DC$10,000
LA CLINICA DEL PUEBLO$10,000
ENGLEBERG-KORMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$6,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CREATIVE VISIONS: $10k → 14%District of Columbia Treasure: $10k → 14%SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 13%WAKE FOREST INST FOR REGENERATIVE MEDICINE: $5k → 15%ARTSTREAM INC: $10k → 8%ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION: $9k → 14%ST MARYS COURT: $10k → 14%ENGLEBERG-KORMAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $6k → 8%St Marys Court: $10k → 14%ARTSTREAM INC: $10k → 8%FRIEND OF FT DUPONT ICE ARENA: $8k → 14%ARTSTREAM: $5k → 8%Friend of Ft Dupont Ice Arena: $8k → 14%ARTSTREAM: $5k → 8%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%DC SOCIETY SAR: $6k → 14%FRIENDS OF FT DUPONT ICE ARENA: $5k → 14%Scottish Rite Foundation DC: $24k → 14%SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF DC: $15k → 14%LA CLINICA DEL PUEBLO: $10k → 14%SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF DC: $9k → 14%SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF DC: $8k → 14%HOUSE OF THE TEMPLE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%HOUSE OF THE TEMPLE: $5k → 14%DC Scores: $10k → 14%WHITMAN WALKER CLINIC: $7k → 14%BREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $17k → 14%Safe Shore -DC Childrens: $13k → 14%GRAND CHAPTER OF THE ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR OF THE DC: $10k → 14%SAFE SHORES: $8k → 14%GRAND CHAPTER EASTERN STAR OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: $7k → 14%WANADA: $10k → 14%Harmonic Music Foundation: $10k → 14%HARMONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%WANADA: $8k → 14%HARMONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%WANADA: $8k → 14%JOHN S MULHOLLAND FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 14%JOHN S MULHOLLAND FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $8k → 14%Special Olympics DC: $7k → 14%JOHN S MULOLAND FDN: $7k → 14%DC GRAYS BASEBALL LLC: $10k → 14%JOHN S MULHOLLAND FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $6k → 14%THE ELLINGTON FUND: $10k → 14%DC GRAYS BASEBALL LLC: $7k → 14%JOHN S MULHOLAND FDN: $6k → 14%John S Mulholand Fdn: $6k → 14%CASA RUBY: $10k → 14%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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$325k · 12 repeat orgs$138k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
15

Total granted

$325k
$122k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+26%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEducationRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther

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

  • JS
    JOHN S MULHOLLAND FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $43k · revenue ×17
  • AI
    ARTSTREAM INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $30k · revenue +68%
  • LC
    LA CLINICA DEL PUEBLO INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $28k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • BF
    BREAD FOR THE CITY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $17k · revenue +16%
  • DO
    District of Columbia Treasure
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • TE
    THE ELLINGTON FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -11%

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
The Masonic Foundation of the District of Columbia
Membership Benefit
2
The Arc of the District of Columbia Inc

To improve the quality of life for all persons with intellectual disabilities and their families through supports and advocacy.

Human Services
3
University of Dc Foundation Inc

The corporation is organized exclusively for scientific, literary, charitable, educational purposes for the benefit of the university of the district of columbia.

Education
4
Federal City Council

The mission of the federal city council is to focus the creativity, talent and resources of washington dc's business and civic leaders on washington, dc's biggest challenges and opportunities.

—
5
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

—
6
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
7
Greater Washington Partnership

We identify shared opportunities and core challenges and offer solutions to the region's most critical issues including skills and talent, regional mobility, infrastructure and inclusive economic growth.

Recreation & Sports
8
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
9
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education
10
The Economic Club of Washington Dc

To provide a forum for the study and discussion of timely economic, business, and political issues. To increase regional understanding of national and international economic issues amongst the region's business, professional, governmental,…

—
11
Capitol Hill Day School

Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…

Education
12
Delta Dental of Washington

See schedule oddwa will revolutionize the oral health industry and improve overall health. this includes, but is not limited to, the following: to secure dental service for employer groups, individuals and their families; provide…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The House of the Temple Historic Preservation Foundaion Inc and the most unlike its peers is Engleberg-Korman Charitable Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr18%19%10–20yr18%23%20–35yr16%35%35–55yr15%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr18%27%10–20yr18%28%20–35yr16%37%35–55yr15%7%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/27
the rest of the field
12%
1,600/12,974

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

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 29 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
18/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INC — $56,000 · OtherTHE SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA…JOHN S MULHOLLAND FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $42,760 · OtherJOHN S MULHOLLAND FAMILY FOUNDATION INCST MARY'S COURT HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP — $20,000 · OtherST MARY'S COURT HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR OF THE — $17,000 · OtherORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR OF THEDistrict of Columbia Treasure — $10,000 · OtherTHE ELLINGTON FUND — $10,000 · OtherCASA RUBY INC — $10,000 · OtherDC SCORES — $10,000 · OtherBREAD FOR THE CITY INC — $17,200 · OtherBREAD FOR THE CITY INCST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC — $9,115 · Other+5 more — $28,900 · Other+5 moreARTSTREAM INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureARTSTREAM INCHARMONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Arts & CultureHARMONIC MUSIC FO…CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE VISIONS …THE HOUSE OF THE TEMPLE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDAION INC — $5,500 · Arts & CultureTHE HOUSE OF THE …LA CLINICA DEL PUEBLO INC — $27,500 · HealthLA CLINICA…SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $10,000 · HealthSHRINERS H…WHITMAN-WALKER CLINIC INC — $7,485 · HealthWHITMAN-WA…Friends of Fort Dupont Ice Arena Inc — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsDC GRAYS BASEBALL INC — $16,700 · Recreation & SportsGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationThe George Washington University — $5,000 · EducationTHE SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION SOUTHERN JURISDICTION USA INC — $5,000 · EducationTHE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER — $25,500 · Crime & LegalWANADA AUTOMOBILE DEALER EDUCATION INSTITUTE INC — $25,000 · Employment
Other$230,975Arts & Culture$70,500Health$44,985Recreation & Sports$36,700Education$30,000Crime & Legal$25,500Employment$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INC — $56,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetJOHN S MULHOLLAND FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $42,760 over 6y, 6.4% of budgetARTSTREAM INC — $30,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetLA CLINICA DEL PUEBLO INC — $27,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER — $25,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHARMONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetWANADA AUTOMOBILE DEALER EDUCATION INSTITUTE INC — $25,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Fort Dupont Ice Arena Inc — $20,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetST MARY'S COURT HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORP — $20,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC — $17,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR OF THE — $17,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetDC GRAYS BASEBALL INC — $16,700 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetTHE ELLINGTON FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASA RUBY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC — $9,115 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITMAN-WALKER CLINIC INC — $7,485 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INC — $7,400 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEngleberg-Korman Charitable Foundation — $6,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetNATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION - DC SOCIETY — $5,500 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetTHE HOUSE OF THE TEMPLE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDAION INC — $5,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe George Washington University — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION SOUTHERN JURISDICTION USA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR GENERAL GRAND CHAPTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Greater Washington Co…The Morris and Gwendo…United Way of the Nat…The Albertsons Compan…Dimick Foundation Joh…Clark-Winchcole Found…The Bank of America C…American Endowment Fo…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC20× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 The Masonic and Eastern Star Home Charit 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 · 10%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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How do I get to The Masonic and Eastern Star Home Charit?

Find your warmest path to The Masonic and Eastern Star Home Charit 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 29 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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