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Improved Order of Redmen

Dedicated to inspire greater love for the united states of america and the principles of liberty, through its members linked together iin common bond of brotherhood and friendship.

$22k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Civil Rights$126kPublic Safety & Disaster$83kHealth$61kArts & Culture$56kFood & Nutrition$53kAnimals$17k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $9,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $21,690 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $12,190 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.
$9,500
Median grant
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States reached
$100k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEART OF TEXAS FAIR$9,500
02The need
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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 (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHARITABLE ORG FOR TX SEC OFFICERS: $15k → 10%SAN ANTONIO LIVESTOCK SHOW: $6k → 16%SOLIDE RECOVERY CENTER: $15k → 16%MARLIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $15k → 21%FARMERS UNION CHARITABLE FUND: $15k → 14%ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION: $25k → 14%CHARITABLE ORG FOR TX SECURITY OFFICERS: $14k → 10%SOLIDE RECOVERY CENTER: $14k → 16%MARLIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $14k → 21%FARMERS UNION CHARITABLE FUND: $14k → 14%CHARITABLE ORG FOR TX SECURITY OFFICERS: $7k → 10%HEART OF TEXAS FAIR: $10k → 16%MARLIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $7k → 21%FARMERS UNION CHARITABLE FUND: $7k → 14%SOLIDE RECOVERY CENTER: $7k → 16%HEART O TEXAS FAIR: $7k → 16%TEXANS HELPING OTHERS: $10k → 16%MCLEN NAN COLIVESTOCK SHOW: $19k → 16%HISTORIC WACO FOUNDATION: $15k → 16%HISTORIC WACO FOUNDATION: $14k → 16%HISTORIC WACO FOUNDATION: $7k → 16%MCLENNAN COUNTY LIVESTOCK SHOW: $6k → 16%RED MEN TRIBE 48: $15k → 16%RED MEN COUNCIL 15: $75k → 16%RED MEN COUNCIL 15: $22k → 16%RED MEN COUNCIL 15: $14k → 16%FUZZY FRIENDS: $5k → 16%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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$320k · 8 repeat orgs$76k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
6

Total granted

$320k
$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-46%
+11%

Still filing today

63%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’23’24’25
HealthArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterFood & NutritionReligionOther
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

  • IO
    IMPROVED ORDER OF RED MEN OF TEXAS 15 WAH WAH TEE COUNCIL
    3× · 2021–2024 · $111k · revenue -48%
  • HISTORIC WACO FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $36k · revenue -1%
  • FU
    FARMERS UNION CHARITABLE FUND
    3× · 2021–2024 · $36k

Funded once

  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +11%
  • MV
    MARLIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -35%
  • IO
    IMPROVED ORDER OF REDMENgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +141% · 48% of their budget
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.

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Improved Order of Red Men of Texas

To provide support for other charitable organizations, especially those that support youth

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2
Improved Order of Red Men of Texas

To provide support for other charitable organizations, especially those that support youth

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3
Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame Inc
Arts & Culture
4
Geronimo Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Provide fire protection/education, emergency medical treatment and rescue services to an area of approx 65 sq miles in guadalupe county texas.

Public Safety & Disaster
5
Redland Volunteer Fire Department

Volunteer fire and rescue

Public Safety & Disaster
6
Texas Intrastate Fire Mutual Aid System Foundation

Supporting the Texas Intrastate Fire Mutual Aid System

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Scotland Volunteer Fire Department

Volunteer fire department

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Scottish Rite Foundation of Texas
Arts & Culture
9
Clyde Volunteer Fire Department

To provide fire suppression, fire investigation, and search and rescue services to the citizens of clyde and the surrounding rural areas of callahan co., tx.

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Reno Volunteer Fire & Rescue Department

To provide fire protection for the city of reno, texas.

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11
Melvin Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Volunteer fire department

Public Safety & Disaster
12
The Robert Burns Society of West Texas
Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Improved Order of Red Men of Texas 15 Wah Wah Tee Council; the most unlike its peers is Marlin Volunteer Fire Department. 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

9 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. 9 of the 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
3/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IMPROVED ORDER OF RED MEN OF TEXAS 15 WAH WAH TEE COUNCIL: $111,429 · OtherIMPROVED ORDER OF RED MEN OF TEXAS 15 WAH WAH TEE COUNCILFARMERS UNION CHARITABLE FUND: $36,429 · OtherFARMERS UNION CHARITABLE FUNDMCLEN NAN COLIVESTOCK SHOW: $25,181 · OtherMCLEN NAN COLIVESTOCK SHOWMARLIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $21,429 · OtherMARLIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPTMARLIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $15,000 · OtherMARLIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTIMPROVED ORDER OF REDMEN: $15,000 · OtherIMPROVED ORDER OF REDMENTEXANS HELPING OTHERS INC: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $5,500 · OtherSOLIDE INC: $36,428 · HealthSOLIDE INCALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEA…HISTORIC WACO FOUNDATION INC: $36,429 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC W…Charitable Organization for Texas Security Officer: $36,427 · Public Safety & DisasterCharitable…MCLENNAN COUNTY FAIR INC: $16,400 · Food & NutritionFUZZY FRIENDS RESCUE: $5,325 · Religion
Other$239,968Health$61,428Arts & Culture$36,429Public Safety & Disaster$36,427Food & Nutrition$16,400Religion$5,325

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIMPROVED ORDER OF RED MEN OF TEXAS 15 WAH WAH TEE COUNCIL: $111,429 over 3y, 20% of budgetHISTORIC WACO FOUNDATION INC: $36,429 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetSOLIDE INC: $36,428 over 3y, 16% of budgetCharitable Organization for Texas Security Officer: $36,427 over 3y, 17% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMCLENNAN COUNTY FAIR INC: $16,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARLIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $15,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetIMPROVED ORDER OF REDMEN: $15,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetFUZZY FRIENDS RESCUE: $5,325 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Improved Order of Red…
Improved Order of Red Men of Texas 15 Wah Wah Tee CouncilTX22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Improved Order of Redmen funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Improved Order of Redmen. 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%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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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    How do I get to Improved Order of Redmen?

    Find your warmest path to Improved Order of Redmen 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 14 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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