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Georgia Masonic Charities Foundation
Georgia Masonic Charities Foundation (Georgia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $323,765 to it, the largest being FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS OF GEORGIA NORCROSS LODGE 228 ($202,765). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $36k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $324k
- Net assets
- $316k
What Georgia Masonic Charities Foundation does
Mission
Provides Public Safety Charitable Programs and Educational Funds for others including fundraising for cottages for the Masonic Home of Georgia.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Fundraising activities in support of other charitable organizations, scholarship programs, and youth development initiatives, including fundraising for the construction and support of cottages for the Masonic Home of Georgia.
$26,596 spent91% of program spendingThe Georgia Child Identification Program is a public service initiative that provides, at no cost, comprehensive child identification kits to parents and guardians. Each kit includes color digital photographs, digital fingerprints, physical descriptions, toothprints, and DNA collection materials to assist law enforcement and families in the event a child is lost or missing. The program is designed to enhance child safety and improve recovery outcomes.
$2,526 spent9% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $29,122.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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 $1.7M to $612k (−64%).
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.
66% of Georgia Masonic Charities Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Michael Kessler
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $100k → $203k.
From the IRS filings of Georgia Masonic Charities Foundation’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.
How concentrated its funding is
Georgia Masonic Charities Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Georgia Masonic Charities Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 95% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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 Georgia Masonic Charities Foundation's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
Georgia Masonic Charities Foundation holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Georgia Masonic Charities Foundation
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Masonic Home of Georgia · exempt
- Grand Lodge of Georgia F&AM · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Georgia Masonic Charities Foundation: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Georgia Masonic Charities Foundation?
- Georgia Masonic Charities Foundation (Georgia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $323,765 to it, the largest being FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS OF GEORGIA NORCROSS LODGE 228 ($202,765). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Georgia Masonic Charities Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $323,765 in grants to Georgia Masonic Charities Foundation.
- Who is the largest funder of Georgia Masonic Charities Foundation?
- FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS OF GEORGIA NORCROSS LODGE 228 is the largest funder on record, with $202,765 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Georgia Masonic Charities Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 4 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