Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$557,202

Total expenses

$559,317

Contributions and grants received

$567,128

Grants paid

$1,276

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$114

Other revenue

-$10,040

Total assets, end of year

$591,383

Total liabilities, end of year

$0

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$591,383

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$559,317

Management and general expenses

$0

Fundraising expenses

$0

Program service expenses (Part III)

$559,317

Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2022

• THE ORDER PROVIDES SCHOLARSHIPS TO DESERVING HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE STUDENTS RESIDING IN THE GREATER HOLY LAND SO THAT THEY MAY RECEIVE HIGH QUALITY EDUCATION AT CHRISTIAN INSTITUTIONS WHILE REMAINING IN THEIR HOMES. IN KEEPING WITH THE ORDERS ECUMENICAL TRADITION, SCHOLARSHIPS ARE PROVIDED AT VARIOUS CHURCH SUPPORTED HIGH SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES RATHER THAN JUST A SINGLE SCHOOL. PRIORIES, COMMANDERIES, AND INDIVIDUALS MAY ELECT TO SPONSOR ASTUDENT EITHER BY NAME OR ANONYMOUSLY. SCHOLARSHIPS ARE USUALLY MULTI-YEAR SO THAT THE EDUCATIONAL ENDEAVORS OF THE STUDENT CAN BE MAINTAINED RATHER THAN HAVING TO DEAL WITH THE UNCERTAINTY OF YEAR-TO-YEAR FUNDING. WHILE THE SPONSOR IS REQUIRED TO PAY ONE YEARS TUITION AT A TIME, THE SPONSORING ORGANIZATION OR INDIVIDUAL MUST AGREE AT THE ONSET TO SPONSOR THE STUDENT THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE SCHOLARSHIP/EDUCATIONAL PERIOD.

  Expenses $559,317

• THE U.S. ORDER ENLISTS TALENTED, ACCOMPLISHED MEN AND WOMEN OF HIGH MORAL CHARACTER TO ADVOCATE AND PARTICIPATE IN CHARITABLE AND CIVIC CAUSES IN THEIR LOCAL COMMUNITES AS WELL AS TO SUPPORT THE ORDERS MAJOR INITIATIVES TO BUTTRESS A CHRISTIAN PRESENCE IN THE HOLY LAND. THOSE WHO SUPPORT THESE EFFORTS ARE SPIRITUALLY ENRICHED BY PARTICIPATING IN THE RECOVERY AND PERPETUATION OF THE CHRISTIAN SPIRIT AND IDEALS THAT INSPIRED THE EARLY TEMPLARS. THE CEREMONIES AND RICH TRADITIONS OF THE ORDER HELP SHAPE OUR FOCUS ON THESE CAUSES.

• THE PURPOSE OF THE CORPORATION IS TO OPERATE FOR THE BENEFIT AND SUPPORT OF HUMANITARIAN OBJECTIVES OF THE GRAND PRIORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA OF THE SOVEREIGN MILITARY ORDER OF THE TEMPLE OF JERUSALEM (HEREINAFTER SMOTJ), TO WIT, TO HELP CHRISTIANS AT RISK IN AND AROUND THE HOLY LAND AND TO KEEP THE PILGRIM ROADS TO THE HOLY LAND OPEN FOR ALL PEOPLE OF FAITH.SUCH ASSISTANCE MAY INCLUDE AID TO THE HOMELESS, GRANTS FOR PROJECTS AND PURPOSES FOR WHICH DEDICATED ESTATE PLEDGES ARE RECEIVED, AS WELL AS THE PROVISION OF SCHOLARSHIPS, AND EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES THAT FIGHT INTOLERANCE, PROTECT MINORITIES AND PROVIDE AID TO THE NEEDY AND AFFLICTED.

As filed on the 2022 return.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

11 May 2023

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

202331329349305813

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