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Grand Chapter Order of the Eastern Star of Wisconsin

Represent and support wisconsn local chapters of the order of the eastern star, a fraternal organization. Organize and coordinate annual meeting of the wisconsin chapters. Provide guidance to local chapters so that all chapters follow the same procedures and rules. Provide a means for members to support charitable and educational…

$54k
Granted FY2023
4
Itemized grants FY2023
4
Organizations funded FY2023
75%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$37k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$8,470
Largest grant, FY2023
$16,009
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
3
Total assets, FY2023
$1.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 75% of the organizations Grand Chapter Order of the Eastern Star of Wisconsin funded were first-time grantees, receiving 86% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’22’23
Public BenefitHealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20234$37k75%
FY20222$35k50%
FY20201$15k100%
FY20193$15k100%
FY20171$17kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Animals$34kHuman Services$33kEducation$31kHealth$22k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Wisconsin Foundation$30,79620%
Pets for Vets Inc$25,07322%
United Service Organizations Inc$16,00910%
Occupaws Guide Dog Association$8,47012%
Aurora Health Care Foundation Inc$7,12910%
Marshfield Clinic Health System Foundation Inc$5,02010%
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Inc$5,02010%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($22k), not named here.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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

Find your warmest path to Grand Chapter Order of the Eastern Star of Wisconsin 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.

About Grand Chapter Order of the Eastern Star of Wisconsin

How much does Grand Chapter Order of the Eastern Star of Wisconsin give?
Grand Chapter Order of the Eastern Star of Wisconsin reported 4 itemized grants totaling $36,681, out of $54,011 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Grand Chapter Order of the Eastern Star of Wisconsin fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Animals (28%), Human Services (28%), Education (26%).
Who are Grand Chapter Order of the Eastern Star of Wisconsin's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: University of Wisconsin Foundation ($31k), Pets for Vets Inc ($25k), United Service Organizations Inc ($16k).
Does Grand Chapter Order of the Eastern Star of Wisconsin fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Grand Chapter Order of the Eastern Star of Wisconsin?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Grand Chapter Order of the Eastern Star of Wisconsin based?
Grand Chapter Order of the Eastern Star of Wisconsin is based in WI.

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 9 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $53k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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