Give ' em a break.
It's a club.
If you are a regular at a Folk Club and contribute when the collecting box comes round for this or that charity - don't live in glass ivory towers. PAL!
They, like folkies are a mixed bag. Some well-healed and proffer their largess to charities and friends, and friends include other Masons.

Because they don't brag much outside their community about their charitable works they are seen as secretive and thus sinister.

What they get up to at meetings I wouldn't like to speculate but it can't be anything as childish as you hear about in Rugby Clubs.

And my school (orphanage to give its technically correct term) was sponsored by Lions and Freemasons. Not sure now, the percentage of foundationers has fallen from 100% to less than 20% currently and they are the children of divorcees rather than having lost one parent.

Famous sons - Gilbert Harding and Eric Idle, though EI never mentions its name and I don't in sympathy - he was sold short. He hasn't suffered materially IMNSHO.