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Odd Fellow & Rebekah Benefit Fund Inc

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$338k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$2.2MHuman Services$1.1MHousing & Shelter$421kRecreation & Sports$347kPhilanthropy$300kFood & Nutrition$233kEducation$207kYouth Development$115kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $215k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KALEIDA HEALTH FOUNDATION$65,000
BEYOND SUPPORT NETWORK OF WNY$50,000
THE RURAL OUTREACH CENTER INC$50,000
HOMELESS SOLUTIONS (REMEDIES) INC$50,000
PAIGE'S BUTTERFLY RUN INC$25,000
VICTORY HILL THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP$25,000
COMMUNITY MISSIONS OF NIAGARA FRONTIER INC$20,000
MARGARET HOME INC$20,000
WESTON T HYDE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$10,000
TRINITY FREWSBURG CHURCH$6,000
VILLAGE ENGAGED INC$6,000
WE'VE ALL SKIN THERE INC$5,000
PARENTS OF SPECIAL CHILDREN INC$3,000
ARCADE FOOD PANTRY-PIONEER CHURCHES$2,000
VASSAR COLLEGE$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $783k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EASTERN ORLEANS COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 11%GATEWAY HOME COMFORT CARE INC: $10k → 12%CHAPEL HOUSE INC: $16k → 13%COMMUNITY MISSIONS OF NIAGARA FRONTIER INC: $20k → 14%VICTORY HILL THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP: $25k → 14%HIS HAVEN: $190k → 15%FREEDOM GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $8k → 16%HISPANIC RESOURCE CENTER OF LARCHMONT MAMARONECK INC: $20k → 9%WHOLE ME INC: $15k → 14%HIS HAVEN INC: $135k → 15%LOVE INC: $16k → 16%SAVING GRACE OUTREACH: $23k → 16%GUIDING EVES FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 9%DALE ASSOCIATION: $35k → 14%SAVING GRACE OUTREACH: $3k → 16%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 9%NIAGARA HOSPICE: $30k → 14%HANDICAPPED CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN NY: $15k → 20%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 9%ROCHESTER REHABILIATION CENTER: $50k → 14%UNITED CHURCH HOME SOCIETY INC - SENIOR WISHES: $8k → 13%ACCOUNTABLE HEALTH COMMUNITIES INC: $8k → 13%THE RURAL OUTREACH CENTER INC: $50k → 13%SASI HIGH HURDLES THERAPEUTIC RIDING: $11k → 13%WNY HEROES INC: $25k → 13%HEARTS & HANDS: $37k → 13%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.

35%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 17 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
95

Total granted

$1.7M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+14%

Still filing today

94%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $337k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • DU
    DAEMEN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2019–2023 · $303k · revenue +24%
  • UC
    UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF THE ROCHESTER AREA INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $150k · revenue +12%
  • CD
    CHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $145k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • BO
    BROTHERS OF MERCY FACILITIES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $300k · revenue -30%
  • SA
    ST ANN'S HOME FOR THE AGEDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue +44%
  • SI
    SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $149k · revenue +144%
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
Unity House of Cayuga County Inc

Unity house's mission is to empower and enrich the lives of people in recovery, coping with a mental illness, and/or diagnosed with a developmental disability. this is accomplished by offering supports and services in an inclusive,…

Health
2
Jewish Home of Central New York Senior Apartments Inc

Jewish home of central new york senior apartment's mission is to assure maximum independence and dignity offering a broad range of the highest quality of health, residential and community services. jewish home of central new york senior…

Housing & Shelter
3
Schofield Home Health Care Services Inc

To provide the highest level of professional and paraprofessional home health care services with care, compassion, and allowing patients to remain in their own home. We meet our mission by operating a licensed home care agency providing…

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4
Schoellkopf Health Center Inc

Skilled nursing facility providing long-term healthcare services to residents

Health
5
Springside At Seneca Hill Inc

The mission of Oswego Health, Inc., the sole member of Springside at Seneca Hill, Inc., is to provide accessible quality care and improve the health of residents in our community.

Health
6
Rochester Friendly Home

The friendly home is a non-profit, non-denominational 200 bed nursing care and rehabilitation facility for older adults. located at 3156 east avenue in brighton, the friendly home offers a variety of health care services including 24-hour…

Health
7
Sarah's Guest House Inc

This healthcare hospitality house provides a "home away from home" accomodations to patients and families of patients who are receiving medical care in central new york.

Human Services
8
Lutheran Church Home of Buffalo Inc

Our mission is to provide for the physical, social, and spiritual needs of individuals we serve, in a Christian environment. The organization is an adult care facility which can accommodate 48 residents.

Human Services
9
Oswego Health Inc

The mission of Oswego Health, Inc. is to provide accessible quality care and improve the health of residents in our community.

Health
10
Accesscny Inc

Accesscny offers personcentered services that empower individuals of all ages and abilities to reach their full potential as part of our shared community. services are provided with dedication, compassion, innovation, and commitment. the…

Health
11
Hebrew Health Care Inc

The mission of hebrew health care is to provide highly personalized quality programs and services to the seniors of our community. we assure dignified, informed, quality care to all regardless of source of payment for services. (see…

Health
12
Craftsbury Community Care Center

Residential care home for elderly and handicapped.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Cerebral Palsy Association of the Rochester Area Inc; the most unlike its peers is Small Comforts Foundation Ltd. 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

91 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 91 of the 127 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
87/91
Grantees still filing
63/91
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST ANN'S HOME FOR THE AGED: $200,000 · HealthST ANN'S HOME FOR THE AGEDUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF THE ROCHESTER AREA INC: $150,000 · HealthUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCI…My Brother Vinny Inc: $115,000 · HealthMy Brother Vinny IncHEALTHY COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC: $100,000 · HealthHEALTHY COMMUNITY ALLIANCE I…COMPEER WEST INC: $90,000 · HealthCOMPEER WEST INCDAVID'S REFUGE INC: $70,000 · HealthDAVID'S REFUGE INCSCHOFIELD RESIDENCE INC: $70,000 · HealthSCHOFIELD RESIDENCE INCFINGER LAKES UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY: $70,000 · HealthFINGER LAKES UNITED CEREBRAL…KALEIDA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $65,000 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ERIE COUNTY INC: $52,250 · HealthNorth Shore Volunteer Emergency Squad: $50,000 · HealthMOUNT ST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $48,000 · Health+7 more: $152,950 · Health+7 moreTHE BRISTOL HOME INC: $141,200 · OtherTHE BRISTOL HOME INCUNITED CHURCH HOME: $120,000 · OtherUNITED CHURCH HOMENIAGARA LUTHERAN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 · OtherNIAGARA LUTHERAN HEALTH FOUNDATION…THE SALVATION ARMY: $55,000 · OtherCENTER FOR ELDER LAW & JUSTICE INC: $59,200 · Other+59 more: $1,025,414 · Other+59 moreHIS HAVEN INC: $324,500 · Human ServicesHIS HAVEN INCThe Rural Outreach Center Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesThe Rural Outreac…ROCHESTER REHABILITATION CENTER INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesROCHESTER REHABIL…HEARTS AND HANDS FAITH IN ACTION: $37,000 · Human ServicesTHE DALE ASSOCIATION INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesNIAGARA HOSPICE INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $30,000 · Human Services+15 more: $226,700 · Human Services+15 moreBROTHERS OF MERCY FACILITIES FOUNDATION: $300,000 · PhilanthropyBROTHERS OF MER…THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEW YORK INC: $150,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY F…CHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC: $145,000 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN'S DYSL…GOLISANO AUTISM CENTER INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyGOLISANO AUTISM…PAIGE'S BUTTERFLY RUN INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyDAEMEN UNIVERSITY: $303,000 · EducationDAEMEN UN…THE SUMMIT CENTER INC: $80,000 · EducationTHE SUMMI…BAKER HALL: $30,000 · EducationBAKER HAL…+6 more: $10,000 · EducationSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $149,000 · Housing & ShelterJOSEPH'S HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC: $38,000 · Housing & ShelterGERARD PLACE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND COMPANY INC: $22,154 · Housing & ShelterTHE MARGARET HOME INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterBRISTOL VILLAGE INC: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterCRADLE BEACH INC: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMP GOOD DAYS AND SPECIAL TIMES INC: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsBUFFALO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC: $15,000 · Recreation & Sports
Health$1,233,200Other$1,520,814Human Services$783,200Philanthropy$670,000Education$423,000Housing & Shelter$244,154Recreation & Sports$90,000

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 budgetHIS HAVEN INC: $324,500 over 2y, 79% of budgetDAEMEN UNIVERSITY: $303,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetST ANN'S HOME FOR THE AGED: $200,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF THE ROCHESTER AREA INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEW YORK INC: $150,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $149,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC: $145,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE BRISTOL HOME INC: $141,200 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetUNITED CHURCH HOME: $120,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetNIAGARA LUTHERAN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetMy Brother Vinny Inc: $115,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetHEALTHY COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetCOMPEER WEST INC: $90,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTHE SUMMIT CENTER INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDAVID'S REFUGE INC: $70,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetSCHOFIELD RESIDENCE INC: $70,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFINGER LAKES UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY: $70,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKALEIDA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCENTER FOR ELDER LAW & JUSTICE INC: $59,200 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ERIE COUNTY INC: $52,250 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCRADLE BEACH INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNorth Shore Volunteer Emergency Squad: $50,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetThe Rural Outreach Center Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetGOLISANO AUTISM CENTER INC: $50,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetROCHESTER REHABILITATION CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMOUNT ST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $48,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetARISE CHILD & FAMILY SERVICE INC: $41,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPEACE OF THE CITY MINISTRIES INC: $40,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetGIGI'S PLAYHOUSE INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJOSEPH'S HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC: $38,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHEARTS AND HANDS FAITH IN ACTION: $37,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetCANANDAIGUA KIWANIS FOUNDATION INC: $36,500 over 1y, 24% of budgetCATTARAUGUS AREA AMBULANCE SERVICE: $35,175 over 1y, 24% of budgetHOPE FOUNDATION OF BINGHAMTON: $35,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetTHE DALE ASSOCIATION INC: $35,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHEART LOVE & SOUL INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBAKER HALL: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNIAGARA HOSPICE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBEECHWOOD HEALTH CARE CENTER INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAVING GRACE OUTREACH INC: $25,500 over 2y, 14% of budgetCAMP GOOD DAYS AND SPECIAL TIMES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPAIGE'S BUTTERFLY RUN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetWNY HEROES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCHARLOTTE HOUSE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetVictory Hill Therapeutic Horsemanship Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetFEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGULLOTTA HOUSE INC: $25,000 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.

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.

Community Foundation …The John R Oishei Fou…Mother Cabrini Health…East Hill FoundationThe Western New York …The Margaret L Wendt …Feedmore Western New …JM McDonald Foundatio…The Peter and Elizabe…James H Cummings Foun…Buffalo Bills Foundat…Health Foundation for…
Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo IncNY67.6× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The John R Oishei Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · East Hill Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · The Margaret L Wendt Foundation · Feedmore Western New York Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · Buffalo Bills Foundation Inc · Health Foundation for Western & Central New York

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 Odd Fellow & Rebekah Benefit Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Odd Fellow & Rebekah Benefit Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 Odd Fellow & Rebekah Benefit Fund 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 127 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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