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Grand Chapter of Mass Order of the Eastern Star at a glance

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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.

$154k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$94k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$410kPhilanthropy$156kHealth$78kHuman Services$64kHousing & Shelter$26kPublic Safety & Disaster$10k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $136,169, the rows itemized in this filing. The $154,279 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $18,110 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

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $42k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $94k
$28,370
Median grant
1
States reached
$167k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 10% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MASSACHUSETTS VEST-A-DOG: $10k → 7%EDUCATION FUND OF THE ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR: $94k → 8%HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS: $26k → 11%DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $12k → 16%SHRINERS HOSPITAL SPRINGFIELD UNIT: $5k → 17%EDUCATION FUND OF THE ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR: $83k → 8%SHRINERS BURN UNIT - EOS PROJECT: $16k → 16%EDUCATION FUND OF THE ORDER OF THE EASTERN STARR: $53k → 8%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY ASTRAZENECA HOPE LODGE CTR: $16k → 16%EDUCATION FUND OF THE ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR: $47k → 8%EDUCATION FUND OF THE ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR: $43k → 8%ISADORE FORBES BENEVOLENT FUND: $41k → 8%EDUCATION FUND OF THE ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR: $40k → 8%ISADORE FORBES BENEVOLENT FUND: $26k → 8%EDUCATION FUND OF THE ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR: $25k → 8%EDUCATION FUND OF THE ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR: $24k → 8%ISADORE FORBES BENEVOLENT FUND: $19k → 8%ISADORE FORBES BENEVOLENT FUND: $18k → 8%EASTERN STAR OF MASS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $16k → 8%ISADORE FORBES BENEVOLENT FUND: $14k → 8%ISADORE FORBES BENEVOLENT FUND: $14k → 8%ISADORE FORBES BENEVOLENT FUND: $13k → 8%ISADORE FORBES BENEVOLENT FUND: $11k → 8%EASTERN STARR OF MASS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $11k → 8%EASTERN STAR OF MASS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $9k → 8%EASTERN STAR OF MASS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $8k → 8%EASTERN STAR OF MASS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $7k → 8%EASTERN STAR OF MASS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $7k → 8%EASTERN STAR OF MASS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $6k → 8%THE ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCAITION MA-NH CHAPTER: $28k → 8%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$630k · 3 repeat orgs$114k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +141% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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
6

Total granted

$630k
$86k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+141%
+19%

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.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
HealthHousing & ShelterEducationPhilanthropyPublic 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

  • EF
    EDUCATION FUND OF THE ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR OF MASSACHUSETTS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $410k · revenue +147% · 59% of their budget
  • IF
    ISADORE FORBES BENEVOLENT FUND
    9× · 2017–2025 · $156k · revenue -29% · 96% of their budget
  • ES
    EASTERN STAR OF MASS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $64k · revenue +141% · 33% of their budget

Funded once

  • HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $26k · revenue +19%
  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $16k · revenue +120%
  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $16k · revenue -81%
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
2
American Society of Clinical Oncology Inc

See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.

Health
3
Sturdy Memorial Hospital Inc

The hospital's mission is to provide high quality care to the sick and injured, on both an inpatient and outpatient basis, without regard to race, creed, national origin, age, gender, disability, or ability to pay. (continued on schedule…

Health
4
Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research

The foundation for sarcoidosis research (fsr) is the leading international organization dedicated to finding a cure for sarcoidosis and improving care for sarcoidosis patients through research, education, and support. since its…

Philanthropy
5
Emerson Health System Inc

Emerson health systems is the parent organization of four subsidiaries - emerson hospital, emerson occupational health services, emerson property development and emerson health care foundation. emerson health systems provides its…

Health
6
Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement
7
The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc

The organization's exempt purpose is to raise funds to support charitable,educational & scientific purposes of its tax-exempt affiliate the hospital for special surgery, and other health care related charitable organizations.

Health
8
Sturdy Health Inc

Sturdy health, inc.'s primary purpose is to expand and improve the availability of quality medical care in the sturdy memorial hospital service area.

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9
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
11
Schepens Eye Research Institute Inc

Description of organization mission the schepens eye research institute ("schepens") fights blindness by developing new technologies, therapies and knowledge to retain and restore vision. through a continuum of discovery, the institute…

Health
12
The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast Inc

Suncoast hospice's mission is to be the center to improve life for those touched by advanced illness, death, dying, grief, bereavement and other end-of-life issues.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homes for Our Troops Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

11 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EDUCATION FUND OF THE ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR OF MASSACHUSETTS: $409,549 · EducationEDUCATION FUND OF THE ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR OF MASSACHUSET…ISADORE FORBES BENEVOLENT FUND: $156,382 · PhilanthropyISADORE FORBES BENEVOLE…EASTERN STAR OF MASS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $64,290 · Housing & ShelterEASTERN STAR …HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $25,600 · Housing & ShelterHOMES FOR OUR…SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $16,444 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $16,289 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $12,200 · HealthTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $5,001 · HealthALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION MASSACHUSE: $28,370 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS VEST-A-DOG INC: $10,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Education$409,549Philanthropy$156,382Housing & Shelter$89,890Health$49,934Other$28,370Public Safety & Disaster$10,000

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 budgetEDUCATION FUND OF THE ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR OF MASSACHUSETTS: $409,549 over 9y, 59% of budgetISADORE FORBES BENEVOLENT FUND: $156,382 over 9y, 96% of budgetEASTERN STAR OF MASS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $64,290 over 8y, 33% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $25,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $16,444 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $16,289 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $12,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS VEST-A-DOG INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $5,001 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Grand Chapter of Mass Order of the Eastern Star funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Grand Chapter of Mass Order of the Eastern Star. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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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Find your warmest path to Grand Chapter of Mass Order of the Eastern Star 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 10 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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