· Private foundation
Odd Fellow & Rebekah Benefit Fund Inc
To make, establish, solicit, collect, receive, hold, invest, reinvest, distribute and disburse donations, subscriptions, gifts, bequests, scholarships, grants and other funds to support individuals, programs and/or services committed to the enhancement of community and civic endeavors consistent with the tenets of the independent order…
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $215k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| VICTORY HILL THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP | $25,000 |
| PAIGE'S BUTTERFLY RUN INC | $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 |
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 (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 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $337k 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
- DUDAEMEN UNIVERSITY2× · 2019–2023 · $303k · revenue +24%
- UCUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF THE ROCHESTER AREA INC2× · 2021–2022 · $150k · revenue +12%
- CDCHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC4× · 2019–2022 · $145k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- BOBROTHERS OF MERCY FACILITIES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $300k · revenue -30%
- SAST ANN'S HOME FOR THE AGEDgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue +44%
- SISLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $149k · revenue +144%
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.
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,…
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…
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…
Skilled nursing facility providing long-term healthcare services to residents
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.
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…
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.
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.
The mission of Oswego Health, Inc. is to provide accessible quality care and improve the health of residents in our community.
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…
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…
Residential care home for elderly and handicapped.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Cerebral Palsy Association of the Rochester Area Inc and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
91 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, 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; 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 HIS HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds DAEMEN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BROTHERS OF MERCY FACILITIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST ANN'S HOME FOR THE AGED ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF THE ROCHESTER AREA INC ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRISTOL HOME INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED CHURCH HOME ↗
- Who funds NIAGARA LUTHERAN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds My Brother Vinny Inc ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds COMPEER WEST INC ↗
- Who funds THE SUMMIT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOFIELD RESIDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds FINGER LAKES UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ↗
- Who funds DAVID'S REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds KALEIDA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ELDER LAW & JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF ERIE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds The Rural Outreach Center Inc ↗
- Who funds North Shore Volunteer Emergency Squad ↗
- Who funds GOLISANO AUTISM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER REHABILITATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KIRKWOOD COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds CRADLE BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT ST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARISE CHILD & FAMILY SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds PEACE OF THE CITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds JOSEPH'S HOUSE FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTS AND HANDS FAITH IN ACTION ↗
- Who funds CANANDAIGUA KIWANIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Odd Fellow & Rebekah Benefit Fund Inc 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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