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The Masonic Charitable Foundation of the Grand Lodge of Maine at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

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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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$444kYouth Development$401kPhilanthropy$290kMembership Benefit$283kRecreation & Sports$230kPublic Safety & Disaster$202kArts & Culture$156kHuman Services$102kOther$0
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 43 grants below total $467,297, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,208,374 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $741,077 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $121k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $347k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SPARK INCLUSIVE ARTS$12,500
MONUMENT LODGE #96$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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%YORK COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $26k → 9%YORK COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $26k → 9%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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 32 repeat orgs$752k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +3% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
45

Total granted

$1.7M
$504k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
0%

Still filing today

56%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $248k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitInternationalOther
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

  • CD
    CHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $199k · revenue +54%
  • AY
    ALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER
    4× · 2020–2024 · $180k · revenue +138%
  • MP
    Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation
    7× · 2017–2023 · $104k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $70k · revenue 0%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $68k · revenue +36%
  • GS
    Good Shepherd Food Bank
    one grant, 2021 · $36k · revenue -8%
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Millinocket Maine Elks Lodge No 1521

Fraternal, Charitable Public Service

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2
Bangor Masonic Foundation

The erection, operation, and maintenance of a learning center, museum, library, and related facility in bangor, maine.

Human Services
3
Maine School of Masonry

School based on masonry skills

—
4
Houlton Maine Elks Lodge No 835

Fraternal and charitable organization providing wide variety of services and support to our community

—
5
Autism Society of Maine d/b/a Asm

The Autism Society of Maine provides education and resources to support the valued lives of individuals on the autism spectrum and their families.

Human Services
6
Skowhegan-Madison Maine Elks Lodge No 2531

To support youth, veterans and community activities

—
7
Master Wardens & Members of the Grand Lodge of Masons in Mass

Manage Masonic Lodge Building

—
8
Maine Afl-Cio

To promote and ensure workers' rights

—
9
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine Inc

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…

Health
10
Maine Life Care Retirement Community Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
11
Master Wardens and Members of the Grand Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts

To supervise and govern the massachusetts masonic fraternity

—
12
Maine Community Foundation Inc

The Maine Community Foundation brings people and resources together to build a better Maine.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ancient Free & Accepted Masons of Me Triangle 1; 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.
04the grantee network

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

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/35
Grantees still filing
17/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAINE DARE INC: $60,860 · OtherINTERNATIONAL ORDER OF THE RAINBOW GIRLS: $40,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $70,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS INCWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $68,000 · OtherWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCYORK COMMUNITY SERVICE ASSOC INC: $52,760 · OtherMaine Central Institute: $40,000 · Other+73 more: $818,655 · Other+73 moreNAMI MAINE: $200,000 · HealthNAMI MAINEOperation Reboot Outdoors Inc: $133,782 · HealthOperation Reboot Out…Maine Veterans Home: $50,905 · HealthMaine Veterans HomeNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $37,930 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SC…COMMUNITY DENTAL: $16,428 · Health+1 more: $10,400 · HealthCHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC: $199,086 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN'S D…United Way Inc: $40,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way I…SARGENT FAMILY COMMUNITY FUND: $17,500 · PhilanthropySARGENT FAMI…The Masonic Charities of Florida Inc: $13,900 · PhilanthropyALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER: $180,000 · Youth DevelopmentALFOND YOUT…MAINE BOYS TO MEN: $66,000 · Youth DevelopmentMAINE BOYS …Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation: $104,478 · Arts & CultureTHE GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC NATIONAL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureMasonic Service Association: $116,727 · Community ImprovementWreaths Across America: $72,579 · Public Benefit
Other$1,150,275Health$449,445Philanthropy$270,486Youth Development$246,000Arts & Culture$124,478Community Improvement$116,727Public Benefit$72,579

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNAMI MAINE: $200,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC: $199,086 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetALFOND YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTER: $180,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetOperation Reboot Outdoors Inc: $133,782 over 3y, 24% of budgetMasonic Service Association: $116,727 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetMaine Public Broadcasting Corporation: $104,478 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWreaths Across America: $72,579 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $70,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $68,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE BOYS TO MEN: $66,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetYORK COMMUNITY SERVICE ASSOC INC: $52,760 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetMaine Veterans Home: $50,905 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ORDER OF THE RAINBOW GIRLS: $40,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetMaine Central Institute: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $37,930 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $36,440 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE DEMOLAY ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetTHE GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC NATIONAL MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY DENTAL: $16,428 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAncient Free & Accepted Masons of ME Triangle 1: $16,216 over 2y, 15% of budgetThe Masonic Charities of Florida Inc: $13,900 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetARUNDEL LODGE NO 76 AF & AM: $13,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetST ASPINQUID LODGE 198: $10,625 over 1y, 17% of budgetChildren's Center Early Intervention & Family Support: $10,400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVILLAGE LODGE NO 26 AF & AM: $6,016 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetANCIENT FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS OF 125 MERID: $5,140 over 1y, 19% 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.

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.

Bangor Savings Bank F…Maine Community Found…Sam L Cohen FoundationDavis Family Foundati…Kennebec Savings Bank…Franklin Savings Bank…Harvard Pilgrim Healt…Martin's Point Health…Machias Savings Bank …Fisher Charitable Fou…John T Gorman Foundat…Saco & Biddeford Savi…
Bangor Savings Bank FoundationME22.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Masonic Charitable Foundation of the Grand Lodge of Maine funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Masonic Charitable Foundation of the Grand Lodge of Maine. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 95 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 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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