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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.

$495k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
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, FY2021 to 2025.

Human Services$811kMembership Benefit$268kHealth$237kEducation$115kRecreation & Sports$60kArts & Culture$48kPublic Safety & Disaster$21kEnvironment$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $292,169, the rows itemized in this filing. The $494,594 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $202,425 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

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $140k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $152k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%IOWA ODD FELLOWS AND ORPHANS HOME CORPORATION: $400k → 12%IOWA ODD FELLOWS AND ORPHANS HOME CORPORATION: $240k → 12%IOWA ODD FELLOWS AND ORPHANS HOME CORPORATION: $160k → 12%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.
$1.3M · 8 repeat orgs$306k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
7

Total granted

$1.3M
$139k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+55%

Still filing today

50%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $167k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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
    IOWA ODD FELLOWS AND ORPHANS HOME CORP
    3× · 2021–2023 · $800k · revenue +6%
  • TI
    The Independent Order of Oddfellows Sovereign Grand Lodge
    3× · 2023–2025 · $155k · revenue +12%
  • TH
    TALBOT HOME FOR SOBER LIVING
    5× · 2021–2025 · $87k · revenue +139%

Funded once

  • MF
    MERCY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • CL
    CLEAR LAKE ODD FELLOW LODGE #187
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • MA
    MOUNT AYR VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2022 · $21k
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
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.

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2
Independent Order of Odd Fellows 8 Jackson Lodge

To improve and elevate the character of mankind by visiting the sick, relieving the distressed, burying the dead, and educating the orphan.

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3
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Membership Benefit
4
Idaho Falls Fraternal Order of Police Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
5
Odd Fellows Home Association

Provide grants to allow elderly or disabled members to reside in their own home. provide scholarships. maintain odd fellows cemetery.

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6
Odd Fellows Hall Association of Windsor Inc

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.)

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7
Hmb-Odd Foundation

To assist in the support of IOOF #143 and the community

Arts & Culture
8
Benevelent and Protective Order of the Elks

Benevolent & fraternal

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9
Fraternal Order of Police 1 Sioux Falls Lodge

To operate and maintain the lodge for the FOP Sioux Falls.

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10
California Odd Fellows Foundation

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…

Housing & Shelter
11
Independent Order of Odd Fellows Grand Lodge of Maine

To maintain a fraternal and beneficial lodge system in Maine.

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12
Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks #1266

Fraternal organization

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Independent Order of Odd Fellows; 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.
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 20 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IOWA ODD FELLOWS AND ORPHANS HOME CORP: $800,000 · Human ServicesIOWA ODD FELLOWS AND ORPHANS HOME CORPThe Independent Order of Oddfellows Sovereign Grand Lodge: $155,000 · OtherThe Independent Order of Oddfellows Sov…U OF I STEAD FAMILY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $100,000 · OtherU OF I STEAD FAMILY CHILDREN'S HOSPITALINDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS: $93,220 · OtherINDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWSWINNESHIEK ODD FELLOW LODGE #58: $32,624 · OtherWINNESHIEK ODD FELLOW LODGE #58FORT DES MOINES LODGE #25: $30,300 · OtherFORT DES MOINES LODGE #25CLEAR LAKE ODD FELLOW LODGE #187: $30,000 · OtherCLEAR LAKE ODD FELLOW LODGE #187INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS: $22,300 · OtherMOUNT AYR VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $20,516 · Other+6 more: $60,055 · Other+6 moreTALBOT HOME FOR SOBER LIVING: $86,666 · HealthTALBOT HO…MERCY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthMERCY FOU…KPLAY PLAYGROUNDS FOR ALL: $60,000 · Recreation & SportsODD FELLOWS PAST DISTRICT DEPUTIES ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY Oddfellows Rebekahs rose float (dba): $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Education
Human Services$800,000Other$544,015Health$136,666Recreation & Sports$60,000Arts & Culture$20,000Education$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIOWA ODD FELLOWS AND ORPHANS HOME CORP: $800,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetThe Independent Order of Oddfellows Sovereign Grand Lodge: $155,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetTALBOT HOME FOR SOBER LIVING: $86,666 over 5y, 18% of budgetKPLAY PLAYGROUNDS FOR ALL: $60,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetMERCY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS: $12,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetINDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS: $7,650 over 1y, 13% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ind Order of Odd Fellows Grand Lodge funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ind Order of Odd Fellows Grand Lodge. 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
    2report 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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    Find your warmest path to Ind Order of Odd Fellows Grand Lodge 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 20 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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