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FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF OHIO

EIN 31-4419355 SPRINGFIELD, OH

Browse the largest nonprofits in Ohio

Revenue 2024
$2,244,377
Expenses 2024
$2,314,215

As filed

Subsection
10
Classification
1000
Street
1 MASONIC DR

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Group exemption

The central organization of an IRS group exemption (group number 0171), covering 397 subordinate organizations. matched by us

The IRS lists each organization's group exemption number; we match a subordinate to its central organization by that number and the affiliation code the IRS assigns.

All 397 subordinates →

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO PROVIDE OHIO MEMBER MASONIC LODGES WITH COMMUNICATION, EDUCATION AND NEW MEMBER RECRUITMENT RESOURCES FOR THE BENEFIT OF FREEMASONRY IN OHIO. FREEMASONRY IS AN INDIVIDUAL JOURNEY TOWARDS BECOMING A BETTER FATHER, HUSBAND, FRIEND, CITIZEN AND MAN, SUPPORTED BY OTHER MEN AT DIFFERENT POINTS ON THE SAME JOURNEY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PROVIDE RESOURCES TO OHIO MASONIC LODGE MEMBERS.

  • PROVIDING OHIO MEMBER LODGES WITH COMMUNICATION, EDUCATION AND NEW MEMBER RECRUITMENT RESOURCES.

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Keith W Newton

    GRAND SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $98,700
    From this org
    $98,700
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40 + 2 related

  • Steven E Cokonougher

    GRAND TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $6,000
    From this org
    $6,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 2 related

  • Shawn Johnson

    DEPUTY GRAND MASTER

    Total calculated
    $3,800
    From this org
    $3,800
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Daniel Hall

    JUNIOR GRAND DEACON

    Total calculated
    $1,000
    From this org
    $1,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • William M Carter III

    GRAND MASTER

    Total calculated
    $40,000
    From this org
    $40,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Michael Mc Candlish

    SENIOR GRAND WARDEN

    Total calculated
    $1,000
    From this org
    $1,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Wayne Fischer

    JUNIOR GRAND WARDEN

    Total calculated
    $1,000
    From this org
    $1,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 1 related

  • Jeffrey Sime

    GRAND ORATOR

    Total calculated
    $1,000
    From this org
    $1,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5 + 1 related

  • Troy Davis

    SENIOR GRAND DEACON

    Total calculated
    $1,000
    From this org
    $1,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Eric Muehlenbein

    GRAND MARSHAL

    Total calculated
    $1,000
    From this org
    $1,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Kirk Miller

    GRAND CHAPLAIN

    Total calculated
    $1,000
    From this org
    $1,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Franck Kakou

    GRAND TYLER

    Total calculated
    $1,000
    From this org
    $1,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,244,377
    Expenses
    $2,314,215
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $44,263
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,465,994
    Expenses
    $2,147,445
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $39,970
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,514,258
    Expenses
    $2,066,922
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $62,655

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,757,373
    Expenses
    $2,162,970
    Assets (EOY)
    $23,959,106

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,448,896
    Expenses
    $2,349,139
    Assets (EOY)
    $27,350,015

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,107,278
    Expenses
    $1,860,118
    Assets (EOY)
    $22,796,102

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,449,181
    Expenses
    $1,937,973
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,871,182

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,252,392
    Expenses
    $1,832,394
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,569,000

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,692,914
    Expenses
    $1,567,692
    Assets (EOY)
    $19,101,502

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,582,003
    Expenses
    $1,707,002
    Assets (EOY)
    $17,419,800

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,636,759
    Expenses
    $1,662,211
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,673,261

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,507,454
    Expenses
    $2,670,250
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,944,374

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,763,800
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,208,864

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2024

Tax period
1 September 2024 to 31 August 2025
Principal officer
Jerry Well
Mailing address
40684 state Route 681Shade OH 45776

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility EO, GROUP, LODGE.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.