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The Masonic Foundation of the District of Columbia

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$266k
Granted FY2026still arriving
26
Grants FY2026still arriving
12
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$2.7MInternational$78kHuman Services$48kPhilanthropy$35kReligion$33kHealth$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$21kPublic Benefit$18kOther$0
02FY2026 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $265k
$10,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIV OF THE DIST OF COL FOUNDATION$25,000
VA POLYTECHNIC INST OF TECHNOLOGY$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER$10,000
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$10,000
BOSTON UNIVERSITY$10,000
THE GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC NATIONAL MEMORIAL$10,000
VIRGINIA TECH UNIVERSITY$10,000
NORTH CAROLINA A&T STATE UNIVERSITY$10,000
HOWARD UNVERSITY$10,000
FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY$10,000
NORTH CAROLINA AT&T UNIVERSITY$10,000
VIRGINIA TECH UNIVERSITY$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA$10,000
NORTH CAROLINA AT&T STATE UNIVERITY$10,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$10,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Delaware State University: $18k → 11%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $10k → 14%SCHOOLS WITHOUT WALLS: $10k → 14%FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY: $10k → 19%Wake Forest Univ: $10k → 15%NORTH CAROLINA A&T STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%SPELMAN COLLEGE: $10k → 13%CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 17%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 23%GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $10k → 4%Ukraine Charity Foundaion: $57k → 6%THE GEORGE WASHINGTON MASONIC NATIONAL MEMORIAL: $10k → 9%VIRGINIA TECH UNIVERSITY: $10k → 21%MASONIC SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $5k → 8%Dartmouth University: $10k → 10%DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 11%Penn State University: $10k → 16%Turkish Philanthropy Earthquake Ass: $25k → 17%GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 14%Florida AM University: $10k → 19%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $10k → 15%NORTH CAROLINA AT&T STATE UNIVERITY: $10k → 16%Jackson State University: $8k → 23%Ukraine Charity Foundaion: $16k → 6%Virginia Tech: $10k → 21%Grand Lodge FAAM of DC: $11k → 14%NORTH CAROLINA AT&T UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%VIRGINIA TECH UNIVERSITY: $10k → 21%Grand Lodge FAAM of DC: $10k → 14%NORTH CAROLINA AT&T STATE UNIVERITY: $10k → 16%VA POLYTECHNIC INST OF TECHNOLOGY: $10k → 21%MESH Charities: $43k → 14%SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF DC: $10k → 14%Bread for the City: $11k → 14%HOWARD UNVERSITY: $10k → 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%UNIV OF THE DIST OF COL FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%University of DC: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: $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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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IL
WI
MI
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MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
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VA
MD
DE
NC
DC
HI
OK
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GA
FL
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 65 repeat orgs$439k to everyone else

65 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2026, 52 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
34

Total granted

$2.7M
$294k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+29%

Still filing today

51%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • 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 +6%
  • 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
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
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
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
6
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
7
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
8
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education
9
Albright College

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

Education
10
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
11
Boston Architectural College

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

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12
St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University; 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.
04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 114 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
37/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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+70 more: $1,319,255 · Other+70 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: $92,500 · EducationSpelman CollegeThe George Washington University: $90,000 · EducationThe George Washington UniversityUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $82,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTERUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $60,000 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $57,500 · EducationDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY: $52,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $48,750 · Education+23 more: $567,500 · Education+23 moreNorthwestern University: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsHARMONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFAITH AND POLITICS INSTITUTE: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMasonic Service Association: $16,100 · Community ImprovementBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $11,225 · Food & NutritionMACARTHUR BEAUTIFICATION GROUP: $2,000 · Environment
Other$1,747,137Education$1,435,000Recreation & Sports$20,000Arts & Culture$20,000Community Improvement$16,100Food & Nutrition$11,225Environment$2,000

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 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, 1.3% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $120,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSpelman College: $92,500 over 10y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $90,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $82,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $60,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $57,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY: $52,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $48,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $47,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE: $45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTuskegee University: $37,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $37,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $37,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $37,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $32,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $32,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $30,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetClark Atlanta University Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetITHACA COLLEGE: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 2y, 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 budgetHARMONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SCOTTISH RITE FOUNDATION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFAITH AND POLITICS INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPALISADES COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $9,000 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetNaropa University: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBucknell 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 budgetFordham University: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMACARTHUR BEAUTIFICATION GROUP: $2,000 over 2y, 4.3% 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 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 THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Tuskegee University ↗
  • Who funds MOREHOUSE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
  • Who funds HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
  • Who funds Clark Atlanta University Inc ↗

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.

Strada Education Foun…National Collegiate A…Greater Washington Co…Ibm International Fou…Verizon FoundationVanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
  • Delaware State University: 18% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% 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, 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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 114 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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