· Public charity
Ind Order of Odd Fellows Grand Lodge
To promote the general welfare of the order of the odd fellows, a national fraternal order in the state of iowa, and to further the cause of benevolence and charity to its members and the general public.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $292,169 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $494,594 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $202,425 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
- $10k–50k9 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $152k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| U OF I STEAD FAMILY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| CEDAR VALLEY ODD FELLOW LODGE #233 | $52,155 |
| FORT DES MOINES LODGE #25 | $30,300 |
| WINNESHIEK ODD FELLOW LODGE #58 | $22,624 |
| THE TALBOT HOME FOR SOBER LIVING | $20,000 |
| EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| VAN BUREN COUNTY CONSERVATION | $10,940 |
| WEAVER LODGE #552 | $10,850 |
| ARCTURUS ODD FELLOW LODGE #100 | $10,300 |
| ODD FELLOW & REBEKAH ROSE FLOAT ORG | $10,000 |
| VISUAL RESEACH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–23, $800k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
8 repeat relationships — 6 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, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $167k 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
- IOIOWA ODD FELLOWS AND ORPHANS HOME CORP3× · 2021–2023 · $800k · revenue +6%
- TIThe Independent Order of Oddfellows Sovereign Grand Lodge3× · 2023–2025 · $155k · revenue +12%
- THTALBOT HOME FOR SOBER LIVING5× · 2021–2025 · $87k · revenue +139%
Funded once
- MFMERCY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue 0%
- CLCLEAR LAKE ODD FELLOW LODGE #187one grant, 2023 · $30k
- MAMOUNT AYR VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2022 · $21k
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.
To promote the general welfare of the order of the odd fellows, a national fraternal order in the state of iowa, and to further the cause of benevolence and charity to its members and the general public.
To improve and elevate the character of mankind by visiting the sick, relieving the distressed, burying the dead, and educating the orphan.
Provide grants to allow elderly or disabled members to reside in their own home. provide scholarships. maintain odd fellows cemetery.
To own, hold and improve real and personal property. operate this property and pay net proceeds, if any, to the independent order of odd fellows, windsor (dba windsor lodge no. 215, independent order of odd fellows, inc.)
To assist in the support of IOOF #143 and the community
Benevolent & fraternal
To operate and maintain the lodge for the FOP Sioux Falls.
We provide HUD housing for very low income seniors 62 years of age and for persons 18 and over who have qualifying mobility and vision impairment without regard to race, color, sex, creed, religion, national orgin, physical or mental…
To maintain a fraternal and beneficial lodge system in Maine.
Fraternal organization
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the most unlike its peers is Talbot Home for Sober Living. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 20 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 IOWA ODD FELLOWS AND ORPHANS HOME CORP ↗
- Who funds The Independent Order of Oddfellows Sovereign Grand Lodge ↗
- Who funds TALBOT HOME FOR SOBER LIVING ↗
- Who funds KPLAY PLAYGROUNDS FOR ALL ↗
- Who funds MERCY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ODD FELLOWS PAST DISTRICT DEPUTIES ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY Oddfellows Rebekahs rose float (dba) ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ind Order of Odd Fellows Grand Lodge 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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