· Public charity
Grand Chapter of Pennsylvania Order of the Eastern Star Inc
The purpose of this grand chapter, and the subordinate chapters constituted by and under its authority, is to promote the practice of charity and fraternity, exclusively within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code of 1986 as amended.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of GRAND CHAPTER OF PENNSYLVANIA ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $425,846 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,068,735 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $642,889 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 $10k4 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $38k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $365k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASONIC HOMES AT ELIZABETHTOWNGRAND LODGE OF FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF PA | $201,739 |
| KEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES (SUSQUEHANNA SERVICE DOGS) | $92,816 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS | $70,827 |
| DYSLEXIA READING CENTER OF CENTRAL PA | $37,646 |
| NORTHWEST K9 SEARCH AND RESCUE | $5,778 |
| PENNSYLVANIA MASONIC YOUTH FOUNDATION | $5,700 |
| DEMOLAY PENNSYLVANIA | $5,700 |
| INTERNATIONAL ORDER OF THE RAINBOW FOR GIRLS PENNSYLVANIA | $5,640 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $127k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 5 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- MHMASONIC HOMES AT ELIZABETHTOWNGRAND LODGE OF FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF PA9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY8× · 2017–2025 · $665k · revenue -11%- KHKEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES3× · 2023–2025 · $236k · revenue -14%
Funded once
- CPCENTRAL PA DOWN SYNDROME AWARENESS GROUPone grant, 2024 · $41k
- PSPenn State Healthgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $37k · revenue +43%
- OOORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR GENERAL GRAND CHAPTERgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $17k · revenue +35%
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 Keystone Service Systems Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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. 11 of the 16 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 NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE SERVICE SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds DYSLEXIA READING CENTER OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds Penn State Health ↗
- Who funds ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR GENERAL GRAND CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds BUTLER HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA K9 SEARCH AND RESCUE ↗
- Who funds MASONIC VILLAGES OF THE GRAND LODGE OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds ORDER OF DEMOLAY IN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Grand Chapter of Pennsylvania Order of the Eastern Star Inc 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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