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The Masonic Foundation of the District of Columbia

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$312k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$57k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$2.7MInternational$78kHuman Services$48kPhilanthropy$35kReligion$33kHealth$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$21kPublic Benefit$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $168k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $107k
$10,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Ukraine Charity Foundaion$57,353
University of DC Foundation$50,000
Delaware State University$17,500
University of Pittsburgh$17,500
North Carolina AT State University$17,500
Spelman College$15,000
University of Rochester$10,000
Dartmouth University$10,000
Northwestern University$10,000
Wake Forest Univ$10,000
University of DC$10,000
Howard University$10,000
George Washington University$10,000
Virginia Tech$10,000
Penn State University$10,000
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Delaware State University: $18k → 11%Penn State University: $10k → 16%Lifting Up The World inc: $5k → 17%SCHOOLS WITHOUT WALLS: $10k → 14%Florida AM University: $10k → 19%West African Methodist Collegiate A: $5k → 12%Wake Forest Univ: $10k → 15%Jackson State University: $8k → 23%Ukraine Charity Foundaion: $57k → 6%Virginia Tech: $10k → 21%MASONIC SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $5k → 8%Dartmouth University: $10k → 10%Turkish Philanthropy Earthquake Ass: $25k → 17%Grand Lodge FAAM of DC: $11k → 14%Ukraine Charity Foundaion: $16k → 6%Grand Lodge FAAM of DC: $10k → 14%Grand Lodge FAAM of DC: $1k → 14%PALISADES CITIZENS ASSOCIATION: $1k → 14%MACARTHUR BEAUTIFICATION GROUP: $1k → 14%Palisades Citizen Association: $1k → 14%Palisades Citizen Association: $1k → 14%Palisades Citizen Association: $1k → 14%MacArther Blvd Beautification: $1k → 14%MESH Charities: $43k → 14%Palisades Citizen Association: $1k → 14%SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF DC: $10k → 14%Palisades Citizen Association: $1k → 14%MESh Charities: $5k → 14%Ancient Order of the Nobles of the: $1k → 14%palisades citizens association: $1k → 14%Bread for the City: $11k → 14%MACARTHUR BEAUTIFICATION GROUP: $1k → 14%DC GRAYS: $5k → 14%Faith and Politics Institute: $10k → 14%University of DC Foundation: $50k → 14%UDC Foundation Inc: $25k → 14%University of the District of Colum: $25k → 14%University of the District of Colum: $25k → 14%University of DC: $10k → 14%Howard University: $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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.6M · 62 repeat orgs$322k to everyone else

62 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 47 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
32

Total granted

$2.6M
$274k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+29%

Still filing today

50%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k 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
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • TU
    Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    8× · 2017–2024 · $139k · revenue +5%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF DC FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2018–2025 · $125k · revenue +2%
  • AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • TP
    Turkish Philanthropy Earthquake Ass
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • NC
    North Carolina A&T St University
    one grant, 2017 · $23k
  • GL
    Grand Lodge of Scotland
    one grant, 2021 · $21k

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
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
3
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
7
Washington University

The washington university is a co-educational, nondenominational university with a long and distinguished history of teaching, research and (cont'd on schedule o)

Education
8
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

10
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
11
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
12
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University and the most unlike its peers is Harmonic Music 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 82 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr16%13%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%60%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr16%5%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%70%55yr+

The field is 22% 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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/50
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,515

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

45 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 103 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
36/45
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Penn State University — $115,000 · OtherPenn State UniversityNorth Carolina AT State University — $99,750 · OtherNorth Carolina AT State UniversityUkraine Charity Foundaion — $73,132 · OtherUniversity of the District of Colum — $72,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — $67,500 · Other+60 more — $1,163,255 · Other+60 moreTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $138,750 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of …UNIVERSITY OF DC FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DC FOUNDATION INCAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $120,000 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITYSpelman College — $82,500 · EducationSpelman CollegeThe George Washington University — $80,000 · EducationThe George Washington UniversityUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $72,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $48,750 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $47,500 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $45,000 · EducationTRINITY COLLEGE — $45,000 · Education+21 more — $480,000 · Education+21 moreFAITH AND POLITICS INSTITUTE — $10,000 · Arts & CultureHARMONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Arts & CultureMasonic Service Association — $16,100 · Community ImprovementBREAD FOR THE CITY INC — $11,225 · Food & NutritionNorthwestern University — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsMACARTHUR BEAUTIFICATION GROUP — $2,000 · Environment
Other$1,591,137Education$1,335,000Arts & Culture$20,000Community Improvement$16,100Food & Nutrition$11,225Recreation & Sports$10,000Environment$2,000

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 budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $138,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DC FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $120,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSpelman College — $82,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University — $80,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $72,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $48,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $47,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE — $45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY — $42,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY — $37,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $37,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTuskegee University — $37,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE — $37,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $37,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetITHACA COLLEGE — $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetClark Atlanta University Inc — $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan — $30,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetHAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES — $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY — $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE — $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami — $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY — $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMasonic Service Association — $16,100 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC — $11,225 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAITH AND POLITICS INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARMONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPALISADES COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — $8,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetBucknell University — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNaropa University — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMACARTHUR BEAUTIFICATION GROUP — $2,000 over 2y, 4.3% 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.

  • Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DC FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Spelman College
  • Who funds The George Washington University
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
  • Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE
  • Who funds DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Tuskegee University
  • Who funds MOREHOUSE COLLEGE
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College
  • Who funds ITHACA COLLEGE
  • Who funds Clark Atlanta University Inc
  • Who funds University of Michigan
  • Who funds HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES

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.

Strada Education Foundation IncIN13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Strada Education Foundation Inc · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Foundation of the District of Columbia 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 13%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology35% of income from government
  • University of Delaware30% of income from government
  • Delaware State University18% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University12% of income from government
  • University of Miami5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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, FY2025

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 Foundation of the District of Columbia?

Find your warmest path to The Masonic Foundation of the District of Columbia 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 103 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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