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SCOTTISH RITE MASONIC MUSEUM AND LIBRARY INC

SCOTTISH RITE MASONIC MUSEUM AND LIBRARY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $954,662 to it, the largest being IRA JONES CHARITABLE TRUST ($824,767). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.7M
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$955k
Net assets
$59M
3/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Scottish Rite Masonic Museum and Library Inc does

Mission

To engage and inspire, through its exhibits, programs, and collections, a knowledge and appreciation of americas history, heritage, culture and traditions with a focus on the nations formative years, freemasonry and fraternalism. It will build interest and support for it's mission by emphasizing themes of liberty, patriotism, and personal and civic virtues. A non-circulating research library and significant archives will be maintained for use by the public.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Exhibitions - the nhm develops and presents exhibitions about american history and culture for a broad audience. Approximately 80,000 people visit the museum every year.

    $563,948 spent$209,613 earned by the program
    17% of program spending

  2. Library and archives - a noncirculating research library and archives. Collections focus on american history, american crafts, freemasonry, and other fraternal orders.

    $534,563 spent
    16% of program spending

  3. Other program expenses for the nhm deal with educational programs such as providing tours and programs for area schools.

    $2,196,881 spent$729,274 earned by the program
    67% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,295,392.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.1M) Expenses 100 ($3.0M) Net assets 100 ($55M)2018 Revenue 159 ($3.4M) Expenses 100 ($3.0M) Net assets 105 ($57M)2019 Revenue 156 ($3.3M) Expenses 103 ($3.1M) Net assets 101 ($55M)2020 Revenue 125 ($2.7M) Expenses 99 ($3.0M) Net assets 99 ($54M)2021 Revenue 433 ($9.2M) Expenses 106 ($3.2M) Net assets 116 ($63M)2022 Revenue 292 ($6.2M) Expenses 118 ($3.5M) Net assets 99 ($54M)2023 Revenue -56 ($-1194731) Expenses 115 ($3.5M) Net assets 99 ($54M)2024 Revenue 81 ($1.7M) Expenses 118 ($3.5M) Net assets 104 ($57M)2025 Revenue 173 ($3.7M) Expenses 124 ($3.7M) Net assets 109 ($59M)
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Revenue (173)Expenses (124)Net assets (109)Peer revenue range

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 $54M to $64M (+18%).

$55M
$57M
$55M
$54M
$64M
$54M
$54M
$57M
$60M
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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

15% of SCOTTISH RITE MASONIC MUSEUM AND LIBRARY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$869k
’17
$385k
’18
$219k
’19
−$293k
’20
$6.0M
’21
$2.7M
’22
−$4.7M
’23
−$1.8M
’24
−$25k
’25
0.5
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.

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Listed555754556154585852
Joined·+12+12+10+10+14+5+0+5
No longer listed·101594211011
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $51k → $39k.

Funder
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'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
3
3
3
3
2
2

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $1.0M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Supreme Council Benevolent Foundati Aasr). These are real filings, and they are not money SCOTTISH RITE MASONIC MUSEUM AND LIBRARY INC raised.

From the IRS filings of SCOTTISH RITE MASONIC MUSEUM AND LIBRARY INC’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

SCOTTISH RITE MASONIC MUSEUM AND LIBRARY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% 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

86%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 53% · 2021 56% · 2022 53% · 2023 52% — 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

SCOTTISH RITE MASONIC MUSEUM AND LIBRARY INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states in all.

PA
TX

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

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’21
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’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $329 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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

Against its field

SCOTTISH RITE MASONIC MUSEUM AND LIBRARY INC has grown faster than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve0.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like SCOTTISH RITE MASONIC MUSEUM AND LIBRARY INC

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 Massachusetts

Supreme Council of Sovereign Grand Inspectors General for the Nmj80%Supreme Council Benevolent Foundati Aasr78%Historic Northampton Inc78%Supreme Council Education & Charity78%Springfield Museums Corporation78%Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge Inc76%Nichols House Museum Inc76%Plimoth Patuxet Museums Inc76%

Nationally

The Masonic Library and Museum of Pennsylvania81%National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum81%The House of the Temple Historic Preservation Foundaion Inc80%National Railroad Museum Inc80%Supreme Council of Sovereign Grand Inspectors General for the Nmj80%Nebraska Masonic Foundation80%American Foundation for the National Museums Scotland80%The Heritage Museum and Cultural Center79%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 11%Fundraising 0%

Governance

55
board members
89%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

30%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Part of a family of 5 related entities

  • Supreme Council of Sovereign Grand · exempt
  • Supreme Council Benevolent Foundati · exempt
  • Supreme Council Education and Chari · exempt
  • Trustees of the Supreme Council · exempt
  • Children's Dyslexia Centers Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds SCOTTISH RITE MASONIC MUSEUM AND LIBRARY INC?
SCOTTISH RITE MASONIC MUSEUM AND LIBRARY INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $954,662 to it, the largest being IRA JONES CHARITABLE TRUST ($824,767). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SCOTTISH RITE MASONIC MUSEUM AND LIBRARY INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $954,662 in grants to SCOTTISH RITE MASONIC MUSEUM AND LIBRARY INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SCOTTISH RITE MASONIC MUSEUM AND LIBRARY INC?
IRA JONES CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $824,767 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SCOTTISH RITE MASONIC MUSEUM AND LIBRARY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 3 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