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Grand Chapter of Mass Order of the Eastern Star
The grand chapter of massachusetts order of the eastern star is a non-profit fraternal organization.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $136,169 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $154,279 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $18,110 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
- $10k–50k2 grants · $42k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $94k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 10% 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 +141% since the first grant, against +19% 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- EFEDUCATION FUND OF THE ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR OF MASSACHUSETTS9× · 2017–2025 · $410k · revenue +147% · 59% of their budget
- IFISADORE FORBES BENEVOLENT FUND9× · 2017–2025 · $156k · revenue -29% · 96% of their budget
- ESEASTERN STAR OF MASS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $64k · revenue +141% · 33% of their budget
Funded once
HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INCone grant, 2023 · $26k · revenue +19%
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $16k · revenue +120%- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCone grant, 2021 · $16k · revenue -81%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homes for Our Troops Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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.
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 EDUCATION FUND OF THE ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR OF MASSACHUSETTS ↗
- Who funds ISADORE FORBES BENEVOLENT FUND ↗
- Who funds EASTERN STAR OF MASS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS VEST-A-DOG INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Grand Chapter of Mass Order of the Eastern Star 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.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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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