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California Eastern Star Foundation

To receive gifts, bequests, and contributions for the furtherance of educational, charitable, and scientific purposes.

$206k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$242kAnimals$177kHuman Services$103kPublic Benefit$93kPublic Safety & Disaster$9k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $35,933, the rows itemized in this filing. The $205,547 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $169,614 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
$30,283
Median grant
2
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Bradys K9 Fund$30,283
Paws for the Purple Hearts$5,650
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $103k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FLY BRAVE: $48k → 12%FLY BRAVE: $41k → 12%FLY BRAVE: $14k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$435k · 5 repeat orgs$225k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$435k
$195k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+20%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEducationHuman ServicesPublic BenefitHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • DF
    Dogs For Diabetics - dba National Institute of Canine Service and Training
    3× · 2020–2022 · $102k · revenue +32%
  • PF
    PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS
    5× · 2019–2025 · $99k · revenue +60%
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $69k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • TU
    THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $82k · revenue +66%
  • CM
    Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $67k · revenue +8%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $29k · revenue +51%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Operational K9 Medical Team of Wisconsin
Animals
2
Early Alert Canines

Training medical detection dogs to enhance health, safety and well-being of individuals with insulin-dependent diabetes. We also advance public health by training & deploying dogs to detect other diseases.

Animals
3
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
4
American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation

The mission of the akc canine health foundation, inc. is to fund, advance, and communicate canine health research and science through knowledge and discovery.

Animals
5
Northern California Institute for Research and Education Inc

To improve the health and well-being of veterans and the general public by supporting a world-class biomedical research program conducted by ucsf faculty at the san francisco veterans affairs health care system.

Health
6
Hero Dogs Inc

Hero Dogs improves the quality of life of our nations heroes and enhances the services of community organizations by placing assistance dogs with customized training & lifetime support.

Human Services
7
American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine

The mission of the american college of veterinary internal medicine (acvim) is to enhance animal and human health by advancing veterinary internal medicine through training, education, an discovery. the acvim is the american certifying…

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8
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
9
Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation

Accelerate the discovery of drugs to prevent, treat and cure alzheimer's disease and related dementias.

Social Science
10
Canines With a Cause

The mission of Canines With a Cause is to harness the untapped potential of shelter dogs to heal emotional and psychological wounds, provide unconditional love, support and companionship, and give a new leash on life to those in need…

Animals
11
California Institute for BioMedical Research

Our mission is to build a unique institute that bridges basic research and drug discovery, and that attracts the best and brightest scientists, physicians and students to work together synergistically to find cures for neglected human…

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12
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canine Companions for Independence Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University Health Sciences. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Dogs For Diabetics - dba National Institute of Canine Service and Training: $102,294 · AnimalsDogs For Diabetics - dba National …Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc: $67,000 · AnimalsClearwater Marine Aquarium IncBRADYS K9 FUND: $30,283 · AnimalsBRADYS K9 FUNDTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION: $82,448 · EducationTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATIONWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES: $61,546 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $29,298 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVI…FLY BRAVE FOUNDATION: $103,067 · Human ServicesFLY BRAVE FOUNDATI…CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $7,495 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS …PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $99,146 · Public BenefitPAWS FOR PURPLE H…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $69,072 · HealthALZHEIMER'S…GRAND CHAPTER OF KENTUCKY ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR: $8,542 · Other
Animals$199,577Education$173,292Human Services$110,562Public Benefit$99,146Health$69,072Other$8,542

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFLY BRAVE FOUNDATION: $103,067 over 3y, 28% of budgetDogs For Diabetics - dba National Institute of Canine Service and Training: $102,294 over 3y, 13% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $99,146 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION: $82,448 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $69,072 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetClearwater Marine Aquarium Inc: $67,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES: $61,546 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRADYS K9 FUND: $30,283 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $29,298 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND CHAPTER OF KENTUCKY ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR: $8,542 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $7,495 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization California Eastern Star Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from California Eastern Star Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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How do I get to California Eastern Star Foundation?

Find your warmest path to California Eastern Star Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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