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GRAND CHAPTER OF MASS ORDER OF
The grand chapter of massachusetts order of the eastern star is a non-profit fraternal organization.
$154k
Granted FY2025
3
Grants
1
Communities
$94k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.
Education$356kPhilanthropy$138kHousing & Shelter$79kHealth$33kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kOther$28k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
cancer
2020
—
2021
cancer
2022
—
2023
—
2025
—
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2025 · 3 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $42k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $94k
$28,370
Median grant
1
States reached
$167k
Total assets
Largest grants
- EDUCATION FUND OF THE ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR$93,750
- THE ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCAITION MA-NH CHAPTER$28,370
- ISADORE FORBES BENEVOLENT FUND$14,049
02The need
04
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 8%. 9% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$548k · 3 repeat orgs$97k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +80% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
3
5
Total granted
$548k
$69k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+80%
-1%
Still filing today
100%
100%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
HealthHousing & ShelterEducationPhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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
- EFEDUCATION FUND OF THE ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR8× · 2018–2025 · $356k · revenue +206% · 55% of their budget
- IFISADORE FORBES BENEVOLENT FUND8× · 2018–2025 · $138k · revenue +13% · 96% of their budget
- ESEASTERN STAR OF MASS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $53k · revenue +80% · 33% of their budget
Funded once
HOMES FOR OUR TROOPSgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $26k · revenue +52%- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY ASTRAZENECA HOPE LODGE CTRone grant, 2021 · $16k · revenue -8%
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $12k · revenue +98%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Boston Firemen's Relief Fund
Public Safety & Disaster
2
Boston Medical Center Corporation
Boston medical center's mission is to provide consistently excellent and accessible health services to all in need of care regardless of status and ability to pay.
Health
3
Vna Care Hospice Inc
Provides medical care to the terminally ill and supportive services for family members.
Human Services
4
Medical Care of Boston Management Corp
Medical care of boston management corp d/b/a beth israel lahey health primary care a/k/a affiliated physicians group (bilhpc) is a network of community based physicians affiliated with beth israel lahey health (bilh) and its hospitals…
Health
5
President and Fellows of Harvard College
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Education
6
Masschusetts Corps of Fire Chaplains
Public Safety & Disaster
7
UMass Memorial Health Care Inc (Parent)
To support, develop and coordinate an integrated health care delivery system that includes multiple health care facilities and providers. To receive in trust, from whatever source, and administer gifts and grants, whether restricted or for…
Health
8
The Boston Foundation for Sight Inc
Boston foundation for sight, d/b/a bostonsight, is a world renowned nonprofit eye health care organization. our mission is to improve quality of life by transforming the understanding, treatment, and care of the ocular surface. we achieved…
Human Services
9
Fisher House of Boston Inc
To provide lodging for the families of veterans being treated at massachusetts hospitals
Health
10
Trustees of Boston College
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
Education
11
Tufts Medical Center Physicians
The tufts medical center physicians organization, inc. coordinates the administrative and billing activities for the group practices in their mission of providing quality health care services to patients of tufts medical center, inc. and…
Health
12
Meor of Boston Inc
Religion
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Shriners' Hospital for Children and the most unlike its peers is Homes for Our Troops Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$356,489Philanthropy$138,449Housing & Shelter$78,788Health$33,490Other$28,370Public Safety & Disaster$10,000
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 EDUCATION FUND OF THE ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR ↗
- Who funds ISADORE FORBES BENEVOLENT FUND ↗
- Who funds EASTERN STAR OF MASS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY ASTRAZENECA HOPE LODGE CTR ↗
- Who funds DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS VEST-A-DOG ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITAL SPRINGFIELD UNIT ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation GRAND CHAPTER OF MASS ORDER OF 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ISADORE FORBES BENEVOLENT FUND.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 046057842 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on ISADORE FORBES BENEVOLENT FUND, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 96% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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Find your warmest path to Grand Chapter of Mass Order Of through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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