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Waco Scottish Rite Bodies Charitable Foundation

It is the mission of the scottish rite of freemasonry, sj, to improve its members and enhance the communities in which they live by teaching and emulating the principles of brotherly love, tolerance, charity, and truth, while actively embracing high social, moral, and spiritual values, including fellowship, compassion, and dedication to…

$1.0M
Granted FY2019
8
Grants FY2019
1
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2019.

Education$1.8MHealth$35kFood & Nutrition$21kMembership Benefit$15kHuman Services$12kReligion$10kYouth Development$2kArts & Culture$2kOther$0
02FY2019 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k6 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$1,350
Median grant
1
States reached
$209k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY - COMMUNICATION SCIENCES & DISORDERS$1,000,400
TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN$10,000
SCOTTISH RITE DORMITORY$5,000
HOPE PREGNANCY CENTER OF COPPERAS COVE$1,350
FORT HOOD MILIARY ORDER OF WORLD WARS$600
EOAC WACO$500
WACO DEMOLAY CHAPTER 192$500
ST JOHN'S LODGE #53$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CARITAS: $10k → 16%EOAC WACO: $500 → 16%CENTRAL TEXAS SENIOR MINISTRY: $10k → 16%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 7 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2019, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
12

Total granted

$1.8M
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+4%

Still filing today

57%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
HealthHuman ServicesEducationMembership BenefitReligionArts & CultureOther
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

  • BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $1.8M · revenue +57%
  • TS
    TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN
    3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +145%
  • SR
    SCOTTISH RITE EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS
    3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • CARITAS OF WACO
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -22%
  • MEALS ON WHEELS WACO
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +4%
  • MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +161%
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.

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Scottish Rite Foundation of Texas
Arts & Culture
2
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
3
Ywca Corpus Christi

Ywca corpus christi is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.

Human Services
4
Scott & White Hospital-College Station

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
5
Baylor All Saints Medical Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
6
Texas College

To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.

Education
7
Travis County Medical Society

Travis county medical society (tcms) represents the medical profession in matters of importance to the membership and the community it serves.

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8
Compassion Ministries of Waco

It is the mission of the organization to provide services to disadvantaged and homeless families with children; to reintegrate homeless families with children into permanent housing and employment.

Community Improvement
9
Baylor University Medical Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
10
Texas Medical Association

The texas medical association (tma), the nation's largest and one of the oldest state medical societies, represents over 59,000 physicians and medical students dedicated to enhancing the health of all texans. in collaboration with 110…

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11
Baylor Scott & White Medical Centers - Greater North Texas

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
12
Texas Wesleyan University

Texas wesleyan university, guided by its deep methodist heritage, provides transformational learning experiences and research opportunities to a diverse group of students to develop their full potential as individuals and as members of the…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children; the most unlike its peers is Hope Pregnancy Center Inc. 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

15 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. 15 of the 21 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $1,778,017 · EducationBAYLOR UNIVERSITY+1 more: $500 · EducationTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $30,000 · HealthFRIENDS FOR LIFE: $10,000 · Health+2 more: $2,350 · HealthCARITAS OF WACO: $10,000 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELS WACO: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesSCOTTISH RITE EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS: $15,000 · Membership BenefitMISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC: $10,000 · ReligionCHRISTUS-TRINITY MOTHER FRANCES FOUNDATION: $2,500 · OtherMILITARY ORDER OF THE WORLD WARS: $1,600 · OtherDEMOLAY INTERNATIONAL: $1,500 · OtherALTRUSA INTERNATIONAL - COPPERAS COVE CHAPTER: $1,360 · OtherST JOHN'S LODGE #53: $900 · OtherCOPPERAS COVE SOUP KITCHEN: $675 · OtherTRENTS RETREAT: $600 · Other+1 more: $279 · OtherFORT CHADBOURNE FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Arts & CultureBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CORYELL COUNTY: $675 · Youth Development
Education$1,778,517Health$42,350Human Services$20,500Membership Benefit$15,000Religion$10,000Other$9,414Arts & Culture$2,000Youth Development$675

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 budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $1,778,017 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSCOTTISH RITE EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCARITAS OF WACO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS WACO: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS FOR LIFE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFORT CHADBOURNE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE PREGNANCY CENTER INC: $1,350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOME FOR AGED MASONS DBA TEXAS MASONIC RETIREMENT CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CORYELL COUNTY: $675 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEAST WACO INNOVATIVE SCHOOL DEVELOP INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES ADVANCEMENT CORP OF PLANNING REGION XI: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANCIENT & ACCEPTED SCOTTISH RITE VALLEY OF WACO & COORD BODIES: $279 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Oe Blume Jr FoundationUnited Way of Waco-Mc…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Oe Blume Jr FoundationTX13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Oe Blume Jr Foundation · United Way of Waco-McLennan County · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Waco Scottish Rite Bodies Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Waco Scottish Rite Bodies Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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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 →
    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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    Find your warmest path to Waco Scottish Rite Bodies Charitable Foundation 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 21 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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