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· 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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$202k
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.

Membership Benefit$1.3MHealth$982kHuman Services$168kEducation$46kScience & Tech$13kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kHousing & Shelter$6kYouth Development$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $425,846, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,068,735 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $642,889 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 $10k4 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $38k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $365k
$37,646
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SUSQUEHANNA SERVICE DOGS: $34k → 11%SUSQUEHANNA SERVICE DOGS: $28k → 11%SUSQUEHANNA SERVICE DOGS: $25k → 11%SUSQUEHANNA SERVICE DOGS: $24k → 11%SUSQUEHANNA SERVICE DOGS: $17k → 11%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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 5 repeat orgs$185k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

$2.4M
$124k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-11%
+43%

Still filing today

60%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MH
    MASONIC HOMES AT ELIZABETHTOWNGRAND LODGE OF FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF PA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M
  • NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $665k · revenue -11%
  • KH
    KEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES
    3× · 2023–2025 · $236k · revenue -14%

Funded once

  • CP
    CENTRAL PA DOWN SYNDROME AWARENESS GROUP
    one grant, 2024 · $41k
  • PS
    Penn State Healthgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $37k · revenue +43%
  • OO
    ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR GENERAL GRAND CHAPTERgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $17k · revenue +35%
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
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
2
Highmark Health Group

Working as an integrated system within highmark health, employees at all of ahn's care sites, including hospitals, health + wellness pavilions, primary and specialty care offices and more, are committed to improving health and promoting…

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3
Elwyn of Pennsylvania and Delaware

Elwyn makes life better for people with developmental and behavioral health challenges.

Human Services
4
Philhaven

Philhaven promotes hope, healing and wholeness through the provision of behavioral resources.

Health
5
Upmc Pinnacle Hospitals

Upmc pinnacle hospitals mission as a charitable organization is dedicatied to maintaining and improving the health and quality of life for all persons of the central pennsylvania area.

Health
6
Pinnacle Health Medical Services

Pinnacle health medical services is a charitable organization dedicated to maintaining and improving the health and quality of life for all the people of central pennsylvania by providing primary, clinic, family and specialty physician…

Health
7
Desales University

Desales is a catholic, salesian university that inspires transformative learning through the liberal arts and professional studies by energizing students to be who they are and be that well.

Education
8
Merakey Allegheny Valley School

Provide quality programs and facilities to help the individuals with intellectual developmental disabilities entrusted to our care live with purpose, dignity and to provide opportunities to grow and function at their full potential and as…

Human Services
9
Reading Hospital

Website: www.towerhealth.org/locations/reading-hospital the mission of reading hospital is to provide compassionate, accessible, high-quality, cost-effective healthcare to the community; to promote health; to education healthcare…

Health
10
Holy Redeemer Health System

As a catholic health system, rooted in the tradition of the sisters of the holy redeemer, we care, comfort and heal, following the example of jesus, proclaiming the hope god offers in the midst of human struggle.

Health
11
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
12
Lehigh Valley Physician Group

Establish and maintain a medical group consisting of clinicians employed by lehigh valley health network. this medical group will fulfill the charitable mission of promoting community health through health education, injury prevention, and…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Keystone Service Systems Inc; 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.
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. 11 of the 16 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)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASONIC HOMES AT ELIZABETHTOWNGRAND LODGE OF FREE & ACCEPTED MASONS OF PA: $1,313,653 · OtherMASONIC HOMES AT ELIZABETHTOWNGRAND LODGE OF FREE & ACCEPTED MA…+6 more: $120,410 · Other+6 moreNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $665,438 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETYKEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES: $236,226 · HealthKEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICESPenn State Health: $36,520 · HealthKEYSTONE SERVICE SYSTEMS INC: $127,485 · Human ServicesDYSLEXIA READING CENTER OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA INC: $37,646 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $8,095 · EducationNORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA K9 SEARCH AND RESCUE: $5,778 · EducationMASONIC VILLAGES OF THE GRAND LODGE OF PENNSYLVANIA: $5,700 · Housing & ShelterORDER OF DEMOLAY IN PENNSYLVANIA: $5,700 · Philanthropy
Other$1,434,063Health$938,184Human Services$127,485Education$51,519Housing & Shelter$5,700Philanthropy$5,700

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 budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $665,438 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetKEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES: $236,226 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetKEYSTONE SERVICE SYSTEMS INC: $127,485 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDYSLEXIA READING CENTER OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA INC: $37,646 over 1y, 94% of budgetPenn State Health: $36,520 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR GENERAL GRAND CHAPTER: $17,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBUTLER HEALTH SYSTEM: $8,668 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $8,095 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.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Grand Chapter of Pennsylvania Order of the Eastern Star Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Grand Chapter of Pennsylvania Order of the Eastern Star Inc 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 16 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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