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ILLINOIS MASONIC CHARITIES FUND

EIN 37-0911165 SPRINGFIELD, IL

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Revenue 2024
$28,654,557
Expenses 2024
$13,833,132

Program services were 83.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B820
Classification
1000
Street
3731 WABASH AVE

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).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO PROVIDE AND DISPENSE CHARITY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PROVIDE AND DISPENSE CHARITY TO THE ILLINOIS MASONIC HOME AND THE ILLINOIS MASONIC CHILDREN'S HOME, BOTH BEING CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS CREATED AND EXISTING AS NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATIONS UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, AND TO OTHER WORTHY AND INDIGENT PERSONS AND ORGANIZATIONS WHICH ARE THE PROPER OBJECTS OF MASONIC CHARITY AND BENEVOLENCE, WHICH ORGANIZATIONS ARE OR HAVE BEEN CREATED WITHIN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

  • THE ILLINOIS MASONIC CHARITIES FUND PROVIDED FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO THE OPERATIONS OF THE ILLINOIS MASONIC HOME, ILLINOIS MASONIC CHILDREN'S HOME, ILLINOIS MASONIC OUTREACH SERVICES, AND ILLINOIS MASONIC FOUNDATION FOR THE PREVENTION OF DRUG ABUSE AMONG CHILDREN, ALL OF WHICH ARE OPERATED AS CHARITABLE EXEMPT ORGANIZATIONS, AND TO OTHER WORTHY AND INDIGENT PERSONS AND ORGANIZATIONS WHICH ARE THE PROPER OBJECTS OF MASONIC CHARITY AND BENEVOLENCE.

    Expenses $11,429,379 · Grants $11,267,046

  • 658 EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS TO STUDENTS.

    Expenses $159,000 · Grants $159,000

As filed on the 2024 return.

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.

  • David Lynch

    GRAND MASTER

    Total calculated
    $39,516
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $36,253
    Other
    $3,263
    Hours/week
    2 + 34 related
  • Joseph Ferrell

    DEPUTY GRAND MASTER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 25 related
  • Anthony Cracco

    GRAND TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $10,800
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $10,385
    Other
    $415
    Hours/week
    2 + 20 related
  • Franklin Cline

    GRAND SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $84,084
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $76,877
    Other
    $7,207
    Hours/week
    3 + 37 related
  • James Williams

    SENIOR GRAND WARDEN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 23 related
  • Angelo Deserio

    JUNIOR GRAND WARDEN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 23 related
  • Patrick Gubbs

    SENIOR GRAND DEACON

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 9 related
  • Christopher Both

    JUNIOR GRAND DEACON

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 9 related

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
    $28,654,557
    Expenses
    $13,833,132
    Contributions
    $638,675
    Grants paid
    $11,426,046
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $21,573,242
    Expenses
    $3,754,789
    Contributions
    $248,001
    Grants paid
    $1,736,154
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $19,402,552
    Expenses
    $3,403,348
    Contributions
    $176,882
    Grants paid
    $160,554

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
    $29,251,765
    Expenses
    $3,023,742
    Assets (EOY)
    $273,826,563
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $34,913,611
    Expenses
    $1,868,319
    Assets (EOY)
    $314,503,051
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,334,947
    Expenses
    $1,716,417
    Assets (EOY)
    $224,500,621
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $17,429,047
    Expenses
    $4,026,088
    Assets (EOY)
    $220,200,631
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $17,953,615
    Expenses
    $3,063,009
    Assets (EOY)
    $212,312,522
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $17,953,615
    Expenses
    $3,063,009
    Assets (EOY)
    $212,312,522
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $11,357,693
    Expenses
    $14,216,404
    Assets (EOY)
    $194,400,905
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $16,227,794
    Expenses
    $4,265,645
    Assets (EOY)
    $180,206,548
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $23,497,698
    Expenses
    $3,502,160
    Assets (EOY)
    $186,588,774
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $132,934,477
    Expenses
    $1,120,721
    Assets (EOY)
    $169,772,246

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.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

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

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Related corporations and trusts on its 2024 return

  • SPLIT INTEREST TRUST #1

    T · SPLIT INTEREST TRUST · IL · share of income $1,100 · share of assets $23,161

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 PC.

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.