Ancient Free & Accepted Masons of Texas
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 740485605
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Austin, TX, USA
- Phone
- 5126559667
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $102,850
- Expenses
- $87,187
- Assets
- $3,124,736
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- DAVID BORLAND (Secretary): $8,200 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To admit, make and pass Freemasons according to the Constitution and Laws and Edicts of the Grand Lodge of Texas. To advance the moral and social interests of its membership; to foster good citizenship, honest industry, and upright living; to cultivate the exercise of charity and its best and broadest sense, and to assist the widows and orphans of its deceased members.
What it reported doing in 2024
To cultivate the exercise of charity in its best and broadest sense; to assist the widows and orphans of members. Primary vehicles for this are direct charity by the lodge and inspiring charity in the members. Direct charity includes our scholarship program, our support to Mathews Elementary School, our food drive, our annual Christmas gift to a needy family, and our widows meal. It also includes the various donations the lodge makes to local charitable entities and to other entities via contributions to the Grand Lodge. Our members are also encouraged to be charitable directly, other than via the lodge. In addition, lodge member charitable activities inspire volunteers, family members, and friends to greater charitable activity.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 68% for direct work, and 32% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 68
- Accountability: 16
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.8%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 95.3%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 37.1%; rating input score 37; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: Limited
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.2%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 35.84; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.4%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.8% of revenue deployed · 95.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $83K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $8K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 38 of 39 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 37/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.