· Public charity
Fraternal Order of Eagles
An international, non-profit organization, united fraternally in the spirit of liberty, truth, justice, and equality, to make human life more desirable by lessening its ills, and by promoting peace, propserity, gladness and hope.
Read this first · the figures below need context
65% of Fraternal Order of Eagles’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Adams County Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Fraternal Order of Eagles named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $75k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k4 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASON DIXON ABATE OF PA | $44,500 |
| ALPHA FIRE CO | $8,950 |
| DOG TAGS | $8,000 |
| LITTLESTOWN AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $7,500 |
| LITTLESTOWN HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 37% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2019, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AOALLIANCE OF BIKERS AIMED TOWARD EDUCATION - MASON DIXON3× · 2017–2019 · $111k
- AFALPHA FIRE COMPANY NO 1 INC3× · 2018–2020 · $88k · revenue -6%
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2017–2018 · $18k
Funded once
- LALITTLESTOWN AREA SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2017 · $31k
- GAGRAND AERIE FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLESgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $16k · revenue +68%
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.
6 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. 6 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fraternal Order of Eagles funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fraternal Order of Eagles. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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