Wisconsin · Public charity
Wisconsin Masonic Foundation
Created for the purposes of encouraging charity, benevolence, education and philanthropy, and of securing greater uniformity of purposes, powers and duties of administration in the management and control of property given, devised or bequeathed for charitable, benevolent, educational or philanthropic purposes.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $879k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,751
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $740,908
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 6
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $31M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Wisconsin Masonic Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $879k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $835k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $804k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $875k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $1.8M | 25% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $867k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $885k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $795k | 67% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin Masonic Home Inc | $7,793,242 | 9 | 18% |
| Beaver Dam Unified School District | $398,224 | 7 | n/a |
| Children's Dyslexia Centers Inc | $255,912 | 8 | 1% |
| The Foundation of the Wisconsin Automobile & Truck Dealers Association | $35,958 | 5 | 1% |
| Wisconsin Automobile and Truck Dealers Association Inc | $15,290 | 2 | 0% |
| Milwaukee Area Technical College Foundation Inc | $13,921 | 2 | 0% |
| River Ridge High School | $10,560 | 2 | n/a |
| Wisconsin Veterans Fishing Camp Inc | $7,404 | 1 | n/a |
| Wisconsin Hero Outdoors Inc | $7,404 | 1 | 4% |
| The Hike Fund Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 3% |
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.
Open a dossier: Jerome J and Dorothy H Holz Family Foundation C/O Donald Tushaus
How this is measured
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About Wisconsin Masonic Foundation
- How much does Wisconsin Masonic Foundation give?
- Wisconsin Masonic Foundation reported 7 itemized grants totaling $879,331, out of $1,328,985 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Wisconsin Masonic Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (91%), Education (5%), Philanthropy (3%).
- Who are Wisconsin Masonic Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wisconsin Masonic Home Inc ($7.8M), Beaver Dam Unified School District ($398k), Children's Dyslexia Centers Inc ($256k).
- Does Wisconsin Masonic Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Wisconsin Masonic Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jerome J and Dorothy H Holz Family Foundation C/O Donald Tushaus.
- Where is Wisconsin Masonic Foundation based?
- Wisconsin Masonic Foundation is based in WI.
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