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Order of the Eastern Star Ch Tr

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$625
Largest grant, FY2025
$625
Organizations funded a year
1 to 11
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$156k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Order of the Eastern Star Ch Tr funded were first-time grantees, receiving 58% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsPublic BenefitPhilanthropyFood & 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving5$3k40%
FY20246$3k50%
FY20236$4k17%
FY202210$4k40%
FY202111$3k100%
FY20201$4kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$6kReligion$5kHealth$4kAnimals$2kPhilanthropy$964Food & Nutrition$725Arts & Culture$625Housing & Shelter$625Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Eastern Star Home in Kentucky$4,17450%
Gilda's Club Kentuckiana Inc$1,50030%
American Heart Association Inc$1,42550%
Veterans Club Inc$1,04921%
Metro United Way Inc$96420%
Ky Hopeful Paws Rescue Inc$80511%
Dare to Care Inc$72520%
Rob Morris Home Foundation Inc$6251n/a
American Cancer Society Inc$60020%
Robert Morris Foundation Inc$5501n/a
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($6k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Order of the Eastern Star Ch Tr supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEastern Star Home in Kentucky: $4,174 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGilda's Club Kentuckiana Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,425 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVeterans Club Inc: $1,049 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMetro United Way Inc: $964 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKy Hopeful Paws Rescue Inc: $805 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDare to Care Inc: $725 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMy Dog Eats First Inc: $549 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFamily & Children's Place Inc: $549 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKentucky Humane Society - Animal Rescue: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budget21st Century Parks Inc: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHosparus Inc Hosparus Health: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBoy Scouts of America #204 Bluegrass Council: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKosair Charities Committee Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

The Community Foundation of Louisville IncKY19.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Samuel H Klein Family Foundation · Elite Homes Charitable Foundation Inc · The Sam Schubert Foundation · Nicklies Foundation Inc · Brown-Forman Foundation

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.

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About Order of the Eastern Star Ch Tr

How much does Order of the Eastern Star Ch Tr give?
Order of the Eastern Star Ch Tr reported 5 grants totaling $3,125 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Order of the Eastern Star Ch Tr fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (28%), Religion (24%), Health (19%).
Who are Order of the Eastern Star Ch Tr's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Eastern Star Home in Kentucky ($4k), Gilda's Club Kentuckiana Inc ($2k), American Heart Association Inc ($1k).
Does Order of the Eastern Star Ch Tr fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Order of the Eastern Star Ch Tr accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Order of the Eastern Star Ch Tr?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc, Republic Bank Foundation Inc, The Gheens Foundation Inc.
Where is Order of the Eastern Star Ch Tr based?
Order of the Eastern Star Ch Tr is based in PA.

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 22 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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