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ANCIENT FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF MONTANA GRAND LODGE

ANCIENT FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF MONTANA GRAND LODGE (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $184,842 to it, the largest being ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR-GRAND CHAPTER ($184,842). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$355k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$185k
Net assets
$4.5M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%
01What it does

What Ancient Free & Accepted Masons of Montana Grand Lodge does

Mission

To be the supreme legislative authority of lodges of ancient free and accepted masons of montana

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Grand lodge session

    $38,748 spent
    17% of program spending
  2. Grand officers

    $46,124 spent
    20% of program spending
  3. Disbursements to lodges

    $122,063 spent
    54% of program spending
  4. Masonic activities

    $20,482 spent
    9% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $227,417.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($331k) Expenses 100 ($343k) Net assets 100 ($2.6M)2018 Revenue 103 ($342k) Expenses 88 ($303k) Net assets 105 ($2.8M)2019 Revenue 91 ($301k) Expenses 76 ($262k) Net assets 112 ($2.9M)2020 Revenue 151 ($500k) Expenses 69 ($238k) Net assets 124 ($3.2M)2021 Revenue 93 ($309k) Expenses 69 ($238k) Net assets 146 ($3.8M)2022 Revenue 88 ($291k) Expenses 82 ($281k) Net assets 130 ($3.4M)2023 Revenue 98 ($325k) Expenses 85 ($292k) Net assets 141 ($3.7M)2024 Revenue 190 ($630k) Expenses 102 ($350k) Net assets 163 ($4.3M)2025 Revenue 107 ($355k) Expenses 116 ($400k) Net assets 172 ($4.5M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (107)Expenses (116)Net assets (172)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $3.4M to $4.1M (+19%).

$3.0M
$3.0M
$3.1M
$3.4M
$4.1M
$3.6M
$3.9M
$4.5M
$4.8M
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$12k
’17
$39k
’18
$40k
’19
$262k
’20
$71k
’21
$10k
’22
$33k
’23
$280k
’24
−$45k
’25
7.6
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed978787777
Joined·+1+2+1+2+0+1+2+1
No longer listed·31211121
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $75k → $26k.

Funder
'18
'19
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of ANCIENT FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF MONTANA GRAND LODGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of ANCIENT FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF MONTANA GRAND LODGE's grant income comes from Montana funders.

MT

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’19
’22
’23
Montana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like ANCIENT FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF MONTANA GRAND LODGE

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Montana

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

57% of spending goes to programs.

Program 57%Management 43%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Mt Masonic Foundation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds ANCIENT FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF MONTANA GRAND LODGE?
ANCIENT FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF MONTANA GRAND LODGE (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $184,842 to it, the largest being ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR-GRAND CHAPTER ($184,842). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ANCIENT FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF MONTANA GRAND LODGE have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $184,842 in grants to ANCIENT FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF MONTANA GRAND LODGE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ANCIENT FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF MONTANA GRAND LODGE?
ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR-GRAND CHAPTER is the largest funder on record, with $184,842 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ANCIENT FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF MONTANA GRAND LODGE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing