Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE MASONIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF PENNSYLVANIA
THE MASONIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF PENNSYLVANIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,850,941 to it, the largest being MASONIC VILLAGES OF THE GRAND LODGE OF PENNSYLVANIA ($12,850,206). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $0
What The Masonic Library and Museum of Pennsylvania does
Mission
To maintain and operate a library and museum for the use of freemasons and the general public consisting of and displaying items related to freemasonry.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Program
1. Maintained and operated the masonic museum and temple at an annual operating cost of approximately 2.2 million in 2022. The masonic museum and temple is a registered national historical landmark built in 1868 and covers approximately 80,000 square feet. It contains seven lodge halls, each done in a different historical architectural style. 2. The Masonic Library and Museum of Pennsylvania houses over 135,000 objects and serves as a popular resource for research and reference concerning masonic history. The museum collection includes over 30,000 items. The library houses over 75,000 volumes and an additional 30,000 documents and manuscripts. 3. The museum actively collects art and artifacts of historical interest, while presenting displays and managing exhibits that enrich a sense of masonic history. The displays in the museum are changed on a periodic basis to highlight the collection of artifacts and documents. 4. Maintained and operated the circulating library of books and periodicals at the masonic temple. 5. Library staff responds to several hundred inquiries from various researchers and catalogues manuscripts/blue prints/minute books. 6. Conducted tours of the masonic…
$3,471,331 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,471,331.
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.
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 $22M to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2.2M → $152.
1 of 2 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: $1.8M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania Charity Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE MASONIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF PENNSYLVANIA raised.
From the IRS filings of THE MASONIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF PENNSYLVANIA’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
THE MASONIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF PENNSYLVANIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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 THE MASONIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 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 THE MASONIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF PENNSYLVANIA's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $735 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.
Organizations like THE MASONIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF PENNSYLVANIA
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 37 states
Part of a family of 9 related entities
- Grand Lodge of the Free And · exempt
- Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania Charity · exempt
- Masonic Villages of the Grand Lodge · exempt
- Pennsylvania Masonic Youth · exempt
- Pennsylvania Acacia Insurance · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE MASONIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF PENNSYLVANIA?
- THE MASONIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF PENNSYLVANIA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,850,941 to it, the largest being MASONIC VILLAGES OF THE GRAND LODGE OF PENNSYLVANIA ($12,850,206). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE MASONIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF PENNSYLVANIA have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $12,850,941 in grants to THE MASONIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF PENNSYLVANIA, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE MASONIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF PENNSYLVANIA?
- MASONIC VILLAGES OF THE GRAND LODGE OF PENNSYLVANIA is the largest funder on record, with $12,850,206 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE MASONIC LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OF PENNSYLVANIA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 2 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