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SUPREME COUNCIL BENEVOLENT FOUNDATI AASR

SUPREME COUNCIL BENEVOLENT FOUNDATI AASR (Massachusetts) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $754,645 to it, the largest being THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ($213,212). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$5.7M
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$755k
Net assets
$114M
11/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Supreme Council Benevolent Foundati Aasr does

Mission

To support research and the development of approaches to prevent, diagnose and treat schizophrenia and dyslexia. The foundation supports the fraternity in all its charitable and educational endeavors, including northern light, museum & library and benevolent foundation grand almoner fund.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Contributions to various charities and charitable outreach services

    $5,118,828 spentof which $1,455,450 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,118,828.

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 ($5.4M) Expenses 100 ($7.9M) Net assets 100 ($117M)2018 Revenue 179 ($9.6M) Expenses 106 ($8.4M) Net assets 102 ($120M)2019 Revenue 126 ($6.7M) Expenses 111 ($8.7M) Net assets 96 ($112M)2020 Revenue 95 ($5.1M) Expenses 109 ($8.6M) Net assets 91 ($106M)2021 Revenue 215 ($12M) Expenses 102 ($8.0M) Net assets 106 ($124M)2022 Revenue -50 ($-2703373) Expenses 103 ($8.1M) Net assets 90 ($105M)2023 Revenue 68 ($3.7M) Expenses 89 ($7.1M) Net assets 89 ($104M)2024 Revenue 33 ($1.8M) Expenses 90 ($7.1M) Net assets 93 ($109M)2025 Revenue 105 ($5.7M) Expenses 88 ($7.0M) Net assets 97 ($114M)
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Revenue (105)Expenses (88)Net assets (97)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 2021 to 2022, from $126M to $106M (−15%).

$119M
$122M
$114M
$108M
$126M
$106M
$106M
$110M
$115M
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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

32% of SUPREME COUNCIL BENEVOLENT FOUNDATI AASR’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,052 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$2.5M
’17
$1.2M
’18
−$2.0M
’19
−$3.5M
’20
$3.5M
’21
−$11M
’22
−$3.4M
’23
−$5.3M
’24
−$1.3M
’25
3.1
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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Listed585755576462585251
Joined·+4+7+8+9+6+5+1+10
No longer listed·596289711
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $25k → $90k.

9 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of SUPREME COUNCIL BENEVOLENT FOUNDATI AASR’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

SUPREME COUNCIL BENEVOLENT FOUNDATI AASR leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

87% 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 SUPREME COUNCIL BENEVOLENT FOUNDATI AASR.

28%
largest funder
71%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 99% · 2019 73% · 2020 62% · 2021 45% · 2022 51% · 2023 31% — diversifying over time.

“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.

How long its funders stay

50% of SUPREME COUNCIL BENEVOLENT FOUNDATI AASR's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

64% of SUPREME COUNCIL BENEVOLENT FOUNDATI AASR's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $273k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 6 states.

NH
IL
NY
NJ
RI
GA

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

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $481k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states 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

SUPREME COUNCIL BENEVOLENT FOUNDATI AASR receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $755k to it.

Operating margin−24% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like SUPREME COUNCIL BENEVOLENT FOUNDATI AASR

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

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

73% of spending goes to programs.

Program 73%Management 14%Fundraising 13%

Governance

54
board members
89%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

37%

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 the Sovereign Gr · exempt
  • Supreme Council Education and Chari · exempt
  • Trustees of the Supreme Council Of · exempt
  • Scottish Rite Masonic Museum and Li · exempt
  • Children's Dyslexia Centers Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds SUPREME COUNCIL BENEVOLENT FOUNDATI AASR?
SUPREME COUNCIL BENEVOLENT FOUNDATI AASR (Massachusetts) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $754,645 to it, the largest being THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ($213,212). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SUPREME COUNCIL BENEVOLENT FOUNDATI AASR have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $754,645 in grants to SUPREME COUNCIL BENEVOLENT FOUNDATI AASR, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SUPREME COUNCIL BENEVOLENT FOUNDATI AASR?
THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $213,212 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SUPREME COUNCIL BENEVOLENT FOUNDATI AASR 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 17 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