Massachusetts · Nonprofit
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.
Against its field
SCOTTISH RITE MASONIC MUSEUM AND LIBRARY INC has grown faster than half of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Henrich L Trust FBO Charitiesshared funders
- Greater Hudson Heritage Networkportfolio match
- American Historical Associationportfolio match
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.
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.
15% of SCOTTISH RITE MASONIC MUSEUM AND LIBRARY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $51k → $39k.
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 Foundation 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
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.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Henrich L Trust FBO Charitiesshared fundersAL · backs 3 organizations that share your funders
- Greater Hudson Heritage Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Historical Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnatiportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Richard C Von Hess Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wyeth Foundation for American Artportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolutionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- General Society of Colonial Warsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Society Daughters of the American Revolutionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Hampshire Humanities Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Virginia Historical Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like SCOTTISH RITE MASONIC MUSEUM AND LIBRARY INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SCOTTISH RITE MASONIC MUSEUM AND LIBRARY INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
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.
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 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing