Washington · Nonprofit
WASHINGTON MASONIC CHARITIES
WASHINGTON MASONIC CHARITIES (Washington) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,521,690 to it, the largest being EMMA C GEHR FOUNDATION ($1,152,313). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $639k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $52M
What Washington Masonic Charities does
Mission
Our mission is to assist masons and others in need, focusing on aging in place and securing resources for basic essentials; investing in youth and education, boosting their ability to achieve their greatest potential; and preserving and curating masonic heritage, illuminating masonry's impact in washington's past, present and future.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Outreach services: this program's purpose is to assist older adults and adults with functional and access needs to be able to live at home or in the place of their choosing with the maximum level of independence and dignity possible. The program assists individuals to make the transition to higher levels of care by providing planning support, information and referral and case management. In addition, this program assists with financial stabilization planning, benefits assistance, such as va aid and attendance applications. This program provides limited emergency needs financial assistance as long as funding allows.
$711,326 spentof which $171,840 as grants63% of program spendingMasonic heritage: the primary program is research, curation of the documents, books, and photographic collections, as well as the objects related to the masonic heritage of washington. This includes exhibits, programs and availability for independent research by scholars and members of the public.
$249,955 spentof which $63,710 as grants22% of program spendingYouth investment: these efforts build bridges to help connect young people to pathways for their future. The organization's expanding scholarship program is the primary focus, which includes tracks for children and grandchildren of masons, and masonic youth groups, as well as students from families who have immigrated to the us.
$168,003 spentof which $94,000 as grants15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,129,284.
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.
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 $38M to $49M (+28%).
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.
77% of WASHINGTON MASONIC CHARITIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (37% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 9 of the last 9 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
Megan Ferland
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $11k → $236k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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: $5.8M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Washington). These are real filings, and they are not money WASHINGTON MASONIC CHARITIES raised.
From the IRS filings of WASHINGTON MASONIC CHARITIES’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
WASHINGTON MASONIC CHARITIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 74% · 2021 74% · 2022 89% · 2023 75% — 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 WASHINGTON MASONIC CHARITIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
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
WASHINGTON MASONIC CHARITIES draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
WASHINGTON MASONIC CHARITIES holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WASHINGTON MASONIC CHARITIES
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of F&A · exempt
- Washington Masonic Grand Lodge Building · exempt
- Tua S L Anderson Fdn Trust B · corp_trust
- Tua Anderson Ds Fdn Trust B · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WASHINGTON MASONIC CHARITIES: 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 WASHINGTON MASONIC CHARITIES?
- WASHINGTON MASONIC CHARITIES (Washington) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,521,690 to it, the largest being EMMA C GEHR FOUNDATION ($1,152,313). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WASHINGTON MASONIC CHARITIES have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,521,690 in grants to WASHINGTON MASONIC CHARITIES, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WASHINGTON MASONIC CHARITIES?
- EMMA C GEHR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,152,313 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WASHINGTON MASONIC CHARITIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 8 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