· Public charity
The Masonic Charitable Foundation of the Grand Lodge of Maine
The foundation was established for charitable, educational and other specific purposes in accordance with masonic principles and practices.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 43 grants below total $467,297 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,208,374 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $741,077 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $121k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $347k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN MAINE | $40,000 |
| NAMI MAINE | $30,000 |
| KATAHDIN COUNCIL BSA | $22,000 |
| MAINE DARE INC | $20,000 |
| SARGENT FAMILY COMMUNITY FUND | $17,500 |
| MAINE VETERANS HOME - AUGUSTA | $17,000 |
| OCEAN LODGE 142 | $16,025 |
| KING DAVIDS LODGE #62 | $12,587 |
| MONUMENT LODGE #96 | $12,500 |
| SPARK INCLUSIVE ARTS | $12,500 |
| SPARK INCLUSIVE ARTS | $12,500 |
| OPERATION REBOOT | $11,750 |
| MORNING STAR LODGE 41 AF&AM | $10,487 |
| PIONEER LODGE #72 | $10,450 |
| ST ANDREWS LODGE #83 | $10,430 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–22, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +3% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $248k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CDCHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $199k · revenue +54%
- AYALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER4× · 2020–2024 · $180k · revenue +138%
- MPMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation7× · 2017–2023 · $104k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS INCone grant, 2024 · $70k · revenue 0%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $68k · revenue +36%- GSGood Shepherd Food Bankone grant, 2021 · $36k · revenue -8%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Fraternal, Charitable Public Service
The erection, operation, and maintenance of a learning center, museum, library, and related facility in bangor, maine.
School based on masonry skills
Fraternal and charitable organization providing wide variety of services and support to our community
The Autism Society of Maine provides education and resources to support the valued lives of individuals on the autism spectrum and their families.
To support youth, veterans and community activities
Manage Masonic Lodge Building
To promote and ensure workers' rights
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine creates, finds and supports programs that directly improve the health and well being of children statewide; provides affordable home away from home lodging which increases access to medical care for…
Maine Life Care Retirement Community (dba Piper Shores) offers a vibrant retirement living lifestyle that enriches residents by providing a continuum of the highest quality of care and service. Piper Shores will help all residents realize…
To supervise and govern the massachusetts masonic fraternity
The Maine Community Foundation brings people and resources together to build a better Maine.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ancient Free & Accepted Masons of Me Triangle 1 and the most unlike its peers is National Multiple Sclerosis Society. 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.
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 85 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
35 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. 35 of the 95 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NAMI MAINE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds ALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Operation Reboot Outdoors Inc ↗
- Who funds Masonic Service Association ↗
- Who funds Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation ↗
- Who funds Wreaths Across America ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds MAINE BOYS TO MEN ↗
- Who funds YORK COMMUNITY SERVICE ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Veterans Home ↗
- Who funds United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds Maine Central Institute ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ORDER OF THE RAINBOW GIRLS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds MAINE DEMOLAY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ANCIENT FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS ME 183 DEERING LODGE ↗
- Who funds KATAHDIN AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC NATIONAL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine ↗
- Who funds SARGENT FAMILY COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DENTAL ↗
- Who funds Ancient Free & Accepted Masons of ME Triangle 1 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation · Franklin Savings Bank Community Development Foundation · Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation Inc · Martin's Point Health Care Inc · Machias Savings Bank Community Development Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable 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 The Masonic Charitable Foundation of the Grand Lodge of Maine 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.
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.