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The Scottish Rite Foundation of the District of Columbia Inc

The scottish rite foundation of the district of columbia, inc.

$354k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
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 2024.

Health$500kArts & Culture$465kEducation$73kHuman Services$65kHousing & Shelter$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$16kMembership Benefit$11kPhilanthropy$7k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $197,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $353,756 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $156,256 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $91k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$100,000
HARMONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION$25,000
PENFAULKNER FOUNDATION$25,000
MASONIC AND EASTERN STAR HOME OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHARITIES$20,000
THE SUPREME COUNCIL 33 ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE OF FREEMASONRY SO$11,000
CREATIVE VISIONS$10,000
BRIGADAS DE AMOR CHRISTIANO INC$6,500
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CREATIVE VISIONS: $10k → 14%CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $100k → 14%BRIGADAS DE AMOR CHRISTIANO INC: $7k → 15%MASONIC AND EASTERN STAR HOME OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHARITIES: $30k → 8%CHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%MASONIC AND EASTERN STAR HOME OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHARITIES: $20k → 8%CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $100k → 14%MASONIC AND EASTERN STAR HOME OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHARITIES: $10k → 8%CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $100k → 14%CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $100k → 14%PENFAULKNER FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%MASONIC AND EASTERN STAR HOME OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHARITIES: $20k → 14%THE SUPREME COUNCIL 33 ANC & ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE OF FREEMASONRY S JR USA: $18k → 14%MASONIC AND EASTERN STAR HOME OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHARITIES: $15k → 14%THE SUPREME COUNCIL 33 ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE OF FREEMASONRY SO: $11k → 14%HD COOKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $10k → 14%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $20k → 14%PENFAULKNER FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%PENFAULKNER FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%PENFAULKNER FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%HARMONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%HARMONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%HARMONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%HARMONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%HARMONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%HARMONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%HARMONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%HARMONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF AFGHANISTAN: $25k → 14%PENFAULKNER FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%PENFAULKNER FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%PENFAULKNER FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%PENFAULKNER FOUNDATION: $25k → 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.
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$979k · 5 repeat orgs$188k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$979k
$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
-2%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterInternationalEducationOther
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

  • CN
    CHILDREN'S NATIONAL
    4× · 2020–2023 · $400k · revenue +43%
  • HM
    HARMONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $250k · revenue +21%
  • PF
    PEN FAULKNER FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $205k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF AFGHANISTAN
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -70%
  • AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -2%
  • AA
    ANCIENT & ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE OF FREE MASONRY SOUTHERN JURISDICTION
    one grant, 2018 · $16k
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
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
2
Children's Research Institute

Children's research institute dba children's national research institute conducts and promotes translational and clinical medical research and education programs that lead to improved understanding, prevention, treatment, and care of…

Health
3
The Fund for American Studies

The fund for american studies (tfas) seeks to create a brighter, more prosperous future by preparing young people for leadership and teaching them the ideas of freedom and a free-market economy. founded in 1967, tfas organizes programs for…

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4
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
5
United States Capitol Historical Society

Today, with the formal approval of congress, the society continues exploring and instituting new and creative ways to bring the fascinating story of the capitol, its institutions and america's unique history to people across the nation and…

Arts & Culture
6
The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…

Community Improvement
7
American Neuromuscular Foundation

The american neuromuscular foundation was established to improve the quality of care for people with disorders of skeletal muscle, neuromuscular function, and central and peripheral nervous systems through the promotion of research and…

Health
8
Washington Federal Foundation
Philanthropy
9
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

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10
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International
11
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
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 Children's Hospital Foundation; 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 12 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S NATIONAL: $400,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S NATIONALCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONPEN FAULKNER FOUNDATION: $205,000 · OtherPEN FAULKNER FOUNDATIONTHE SUPREME COUNCIL 33 ANC&ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE OF FREEMASONRY S JR: $28,850 · OtherTHE SUPREME COUNCIL 33 AN…ANCIENT & ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE OF FREE MASONRY SOUTHERN JURISDICTION: $16,473 · OtherANCIENT & ACCEPTED SCOTTI…HD COOKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $6,500 · OtherHARMONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION: $250,000 · Arts & CultureHARMONIC MUSIC FOUNDATIONCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MASONIC AND EASTERN STAR HOME CHARIT: $95,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE MASON…FRIENDS OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF AFGHANISTAN: $25,000 · InternationalAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · Education
Health$500,000Other$266,823Arts & Culture$260,000Housing & Shelter$95,000International$25,000Education$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHILDREN'S NATIONAL: $400,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetHARMONIC MUSIC FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 8y, 7.1% of budgetPEN FAULKNER FOUNDATION: $205,000 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MASONIC AND EASTERN STAR HOME CHARIT: $95,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetTHE SUPREME COUNCIL 33 ANC&ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE OF FREEMASONRY S JR: $28,850 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

2024
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no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%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
    1get no government money at all
    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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    Find your warmest path to The Scottish Rite Foundation of the District of Columbia Inc 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 12 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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