· Public charity
Fraternal Order of Eagles
The FRATERNAL ORDER OF EAGLES provides its members social activities which include dances, entertainment, meetings, receptions, games of chance, and dining/beverage services.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $228,140 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $479,050 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $250,910 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $196k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROUGHRIDER COMMISSION | $34,875 |
| DSU HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| DICKINSON PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $29,250 |
| DICKINSON STATE UNIVERSITY | $20,300 |
| DICKINSON CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $20,300 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATIONS | $20,000 |
| DICKINSON BASEBALL CLUB | $15,000 |
| WESTERN ND HONOR FLIGHT | $14,000 |
| DICKINSON CLAY TARGET CLUB | $12,000 |
| HOME ON THE RANGE | $7,915 |
| DICKINSON PARK & REC DEPT | $7,500 |
| MULE DEER FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| DICKINSON DIAMONDS | $5,500 |
| DICKINSON GYMNASTICS CLUB | $5,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 13% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +6% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- DHDSU HERITAGE FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2025 · $328k · revenue +253%
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH DAKOTA7× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +70%
- RMRonald McDonald House Charities of Bismarck6× · 2017–2023 · $73k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- DWDICKINSON WRESTLING CLUB INCone grant, 2023 · $38k · revenue -7%
- SASouthwest Art Gallery and Science Centerone grant, 2024 · $14k · revenue -14%
- ATASSOCIATION TO MEET EMERGENCY NEEDS INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -16%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The dickinson athletic booster club was formed to support and promote athletic activities at dickinson high school and dickinson middle school
To solicit, receive and expend funds to improve medical and hospital care facilities, services and programs at marshfield medical clinic-dickinson
Charitable & educational
Establish and preserve the dickinson county historcial museum to inspire people to learn through public programs, publications, educational activities, and special events.
To promote the conservation of natural resources in the state of north dakota
Fundraising to fund athletic scholarships for members of the dickinson state university football program.
Organize and provide rodeos in the state of north dakota for recreational competition.
Operation of Historical Museum for the collection, preparation and display of artifacts from Dawson County Nebraska and disseminate and educate the public about Dawson County and it's historical treasures.
Education and preservation of western heritage
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dickinson Wrestling Club Inc and the most unlike its peers is Western Nd Honor Flight. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DSU HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DICKINSON ROUGHRIDER COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds DICKINSON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Bismarck ↗
- Who funds DICKINSON WRESTLING CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds DICKINSON BASEBALL CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN ND HONOR FLIGHT ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DICKINSON INC ↗
- Who funds DICKINSON DIAMONDS GIRLS FASTPITCH ↗
- Who funds Southwest Art Gallery and Science Center ↗
- Who funds NORTH DAKOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Dickinson Clay Target Club Inc ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION TO MEET EMERGENCY NEEDS INC ↗
- Who funds DICKINSON MUSTANG BASEBALL BABE RUTH LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds DICKINSON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds MULE DEER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAAH DAAH HEY TRAIL ASSOCIATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: North Dakota Community Foundation · St Joseph's Hospital & Health Center · Dunn County Fair Association · Oneok Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Fraternal Order of Eagles funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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