Minnesota Masonic Charities
Bloomington, MN · EIN 41-1495325. Reported 83 grants totalling $27.9M to 39 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Minnesota Masonic Charities, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P99) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 39 distinct organizations, with 94% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is extreme concentration. A grantmaker sending three quarters of its money to one organization is in practice a support fund for that organization, whatever its classification says, and an unsolicited request is very unlikely to go anywhere.
- How much its list changes. 73% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $50,000; the smallest was $5,200 and the largest $26.2M. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | $26.2M | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Valley of Rochester Scottish Ritechildrens Foundation | Rochester, MN | $224,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Crescent Cove | Brooklyn Ctr, MN | $200,650 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Eagles Healing Nest | Sauk Centre, MN | $200,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans | Saint Paul, MN | $200,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ritecare of Minneapolis-St Paul Inc | Minneapolis, MN | $200,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Face It Foundation | Saint Paul, MN | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Order of the Eastern Star of Minnesota Grand Chapter | Bloomington, MN | $70,483 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Riverworks | Rockford, MN | $58,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Helping Paws of Minnesota Inc | Eden Prairie, MN | $51,626 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Fort Snelling, MN | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Veterans Honor Flight of Nd Mn | West Fargo, ND | $30,001 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Demolay International | Rosemount, MN | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Jobs Daughters Foundation of Minnesota Inc | St Bonifacius, MN | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Buffalo Food Shelf | Buffalo, MN | $29,269 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Alzheimers Disease and Related Disorders Association Inc | Chicago, IL | $25,499 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Annandale Area Community Foodshelf | Annandale, MN | $23,552 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Salvation Army | Hoffman Estates, IL | $21,756 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Jacks Basket | Arden Hills, MN | $16,271 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bancroft Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization Inc | Minneapolis, MN | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Red Wing Uss Swim Club | Red Wing, MN | $14,743 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Salvation Army | Roseville, MN | $14,323 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Second Harvest Heartland | Brooklyn Park, MN | $14,027 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Anoka County Brotherhood Council Inc | Anoka, MN | $10,747 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Family Pathways | North Branch, MN | $10,400 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Simon Says Give | Eagan, MN | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| United Community Action Partnership Inc | Marshall, MN | $8,700 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Southland Academy Foundation Inc | Americus, GA | $7,805 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Project Pencils | Saint Michael, MN | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Red Wing Environmental Learning Center | Red Wing, MN | $7,360 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Alexandra House Inc | Blaine, MN | $7,102 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mesabi East High School | Aurora, MN | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| North Suburban Emergency Assistance Response Inc | Crystal, MN | $6,259 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Red Wing Public Schools Foundation | Red Wing, MN | $6,066 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ancient Free & Accepted Masons of Minnesota | St Paul Park, MN | $5,900 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Red Cottage Montessori School | Red Wing, MN | $5,600 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Nashwauk Keewating Trap Club | Nashwauk, MN | $5,592 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Valley Outreach | Stillwater, MN | $5,350 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Care Commission | Evelth, MN | $5,217 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
21 of 39 (54%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- The Valley of Rochester Scottish Rite Children's Foundation
SCOTTISH RITE CHILDREN'S LANGUAGE PROGRAM - Rite Care of Mpls-St Paul
CHILDHOOD LANGUAGE DISORDERS - Riverworks Community Development
FOOD SHELF AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS - Bancroft Elementary School
BANCRAFT PTO STUDENT FIELD TRIPS & BIKES FOR BOOKS - Mesabi East High School
GIRLS BASKETBALL & SPANISH CLUB - Family Pathways
CHILDHOOD LANGUAGE PROGRAM
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 28 of 39 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 15 | $345,804 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 22 | $416,870 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 21 | $434,267 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 25 | $26.7M | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
100% of its giving went to organizations in Minnesota. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Minnesota.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Minnesota Masonic Charities's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 24 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 6 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 11501 Masonic Home Drive, Bloomington, MN, 55437.
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