· Public charity
Odd Fellows Temple Independent Order of Odd Fellows DC
Chartered by congress in 1860 to conduct and transact the operations of the temple, and to provide members with fellowship, growth, and service in the community.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of ODD FELLOWS TEMPLE INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS DC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $301k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL LODGE #1 | $176,800 |
| COLUMBIAN ENCAMPMENT #1 | $64,800 |
| GRAND LODGE IOOF TEMPLE | $59,600 |
| COLUMBIA LODGE #10 | $36,900 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS DC | $34,000 |
| HOUSE OF RUTH | $11,000 |
| MARTHA'S TABLE | $11,000 |
| STORY TAPESTRIES | $11,000 |
| DAV DONATION | $11,000 |
| CHILDREN'S INN | $10,550 |
| HARRY V LOHMAN COVENANT #13 | $8,720 |
| ARC OF DC | $7,550 |
| FOOD FOR OTHERS INC | $6,159 |
| FOOD AND FRIENDS | $5,500 |
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 (FY18–24, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +49% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 3 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- IOIndependent Order of Odd Fellows Central Lodge #18× · 2017–2024 · $733k · revenue +114% · 72% of their budget
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $240k · revenue +41%
- IOIndependent Order of Odd Fellows Columbia Lodge #108× · 2017–2024 · $224k · revenue +70% · 53% of their budget
Funded once
- DADISTRICT ALLIANCE FOR SAFE HOUSING INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +114%
UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +9%- APAsian Pacific Islander Domestic Violence Resource Projectgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +101%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for Others Inc and the most unlike its peers is Backpacks for Kids Foundation. 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 36 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 42 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 Independent Order of Odd Fellows Central Lodge #1 ↗
- Who funds Independent Order of Odd Fellows Grand Lodge ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INC ↗
- Who funds Independent Order of Odd Fellows Columbia Lodge #10 ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL UNION MISSION ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TOYS FOR TOTS INC ↗
- Who funds STORY TAPESTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR OTHERS INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER WASHONGTON DC INC ↗
- Who funds Disabled American Veterans ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds DISTRICT ALLIANCE FOR SAFE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FOOD & FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF RUTH ↗
- Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
- Who funds USO OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON-BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Asian Pacific Islander Domestic Violence Resource Project ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds HONOR FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds Independent Order of Oddfellows Pilgrimage for Youth Inc ↗
- Who funds USA CARES INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COALITION FOR HOMELESS VETERANS ↗
- Who funds The Childrens Hospital ↗
- Who funds CARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INC ↗
- Who funds BACKPACKS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Verizon Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Fellows Temple Independent Order of Odd Fellows DC 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.
- Story Tapestries Inc — 16% of income from government
- Children's Inn at Nih Inc — 10% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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