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Fraternal Order of the Eagles No 2137 at a glance

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Fraternal Order of the Eagles No 2137

To make human life more desirable by lessening of its ills and by promoting peace, prosperity, gladness and hope.

$89k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$130kRecreation & Sports$113kPhilanthropy$71kHuman Services$43kHealth$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $42,050, the rows itemized in this filing. The $89,076 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $47,026 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 · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $35k
$35,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$473k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOMERSET PATRIOTS SPORTMANSHIP$35,000
SOMERVILLE ELKS CHARITABLE TRUST$7,050
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 23% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY: $7k → 8%SOLDIERS ANGELS: $18k → 16%FOE CHARITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%SOMERSET PATRIOTS CHILDREN EDUCATIO: $35k → 5%NJ PARTNERSHIP FOR A DRUG FREE NJ: $7k → 16%NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY: $6k → 8%SOLDIER ANGELS: $13k → 16%FOE CHARITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%SOMERSET PATRIOTS SPORTMANSHIP: $35k → 5%FOE CHARITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%SOMERSET PATRIOTS SPORTMANSHIP: $30k → 5%FOE CHARITY FOUNDATION: $9k → 15%SOMERSET PATRIOTS SPORTMANSHIP: $28k → 5%FOE CHARITY FOUNDATION: $7k → 15%SOMERSET PATRIOTS CHILDREN EDUCATIO: $25k → 5%SOMERSET PATRIOTS CHILDREN EDUCATIO: $25k → 5%SOMERSET PATRIOTS CHILDREN EDUCATIO: $25k → 5%SOMERSET PATRIOTS SPORTMANSHIP: $20k → 5%SFC HAUPT FOUNDATION: $11k → 5%SFC HAUPT FOUNDATION: $10k → 5%SFC HAUPT FOUNDATION: $10k → 5%SOMERVILLE ELKS CHARITABLE TRUST: $7k → 5%SOMERSET ELKS: $7k → 5%AMERICAN LEGION POST 12: $7k → 5%KELSEY CHARITY RUN INC: $6k → 5%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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$357k · 6 repeat orgs$153k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +72% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
6

Total granted

$357k
$153k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+1%

Still filing today

67%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • SP
    SOMERSET PATRIOTS CHILDREN'S EDUCATIONAL & SPORTSMANSHIP FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $223k · revenue +35% · 35% of their budget
  • SA
    SOLDIERS' ANGELS
    2× · 2018–2019 · $31k · revenue +72%
  • SE
    Somerville Elks Charitable Trust Inc
    2× · 2019–2025 · $14k · revenue +154%

Funded once

  • O
    OTHER
    one grant, 2018 · $65k
  • D
    DONATIONS-UNRESTRICTED
    one grant, 2017 · $63k
  • NP
    NJ PARTNERSHIP FOR A DRUG FREE NJ
    one grant, 2017 · $7k
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
04the grantee network

6 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 12 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
5/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOMERSET PATRIOTS CHILDREN'S EDUCATIONAL & SPORTSMANSHIP FOUNDATION: $223,000 · PhilanthropySOMERSET PATRIOTS CHILDREN'S EDUCATIONAL & SPORTSMANS…Somerville Elks Charitable Trust Inc: $13,550 · PhilanthropySomerville Elks Charitable Trust Inc+1 more: $6,000 · PhilanthropyOTHER: $64,569 · OtherOTHERDONATIONS-UNRESTRICTED: $63,187 · OtherDONATIONS-UNRESTRICTEDFOE CHARITY FOUNDATION: $46,300 · OtherFOE CHARITY FOUNDATIONSFC HAUPT FOUNDATION: $31,000 · OtherSFC HAUPT FOUNDATIONNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC: $13,000 · OtherNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC+3 more: $18,950 · Other+3 moreSOLDIERS' ANGELS: $30,500 · Public Safety & Disaster
Philanthropy$242,550Other$237,006Public Safety & Disaster$30,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOMERSET PATRIOTS CHILDREN'S EDUCATIONAL & SPORTSMANSHIP FOUNDATION: $223,000 over 8y, 35% of budgetSOLDIERS' ANGELS: $30,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSomerville Elks Charitable Trust Inc: $13,550 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC: $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKELSEY CHARITY RUN INC: $6,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $5,200 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.

  • Who funds SOMERSET PATRIOTS CHILDREN'S EDUCATIONAL & SPORTSMANSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOLDIERS' ANGELS ↗
  • Who funds Somerville Elks Charitable Trust Inc ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds KELSEY CHARITY RUN INC ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Fraternal Order of the Eagles No 2137 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fraternal Order of the Eagles No 2137. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Fraternal Order of the Eagles No 2137?

    Find your warmest path to Fraternal Order of the Eagles No 2137 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 12 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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