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Order of the Eastern Star Ch Tr at a glance

· Private foundation

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 FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$625
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$625
Median grant
2
States reached
$156k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EASTERN STAR HOME IN KENTUCKY$625
ROB MORRIS HOME FOUNDATION INC$625
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$625
HONOR FLIGHT BLUEGRASS$625
DARE TO CARE FOOD BANK INC$625
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 (FY21–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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%EASTERN STAR HOME IN KENTUCKY: $1k → 15%EASTERN STAR HOME IN KENTUCKY: $1k → 15%EASTERN STAR HOME IN KENTUCKY: $1k → 15%EASTERN STAR HOME IN KENTUCKY: $625 → 15%EASTERN STAR HOME IN KENTUCKY: $549 → 15%HOSPARUS INC: $200 → 15%HOSPARUS INC: $100 → 15%Family & Children's Place: $549 → 15%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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12k · 10 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
10

Total granted

$12k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
0%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • ES
    EASTERN STAR HOME IN KENTUCKY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $4k · revenue +18%
  • GC
    GILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $2k · revenue +12%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • PC
    PURITY CHAPTER NO 116
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
  • KH
    Ky Hopeful Paws Rescue Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $805 · revenue +135%
  • RM
    ROBERT MORRIS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $550
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
Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals
2
Women's Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc

As america's first animal shelter, founded in 1869, women's humane society dba women's animal center (wac), assists people in the community, saves the lives of animals, and improves the health of pets through its shelter and adoptions…

Animals
3
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.

Animals
4
Humane Society for Hamilton County

Humane Society for Hamilton County (HSHC) is saving lives, educating communities and completing families by providing a compassionate and healthy environment for the homeless animals of Hamilton County, Indiana, until they can be placed…

Animals
5
Nevada Humane Society

To care for pets, find them homes and save lives.

Animals
6
Washington Humane Society

The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…

Animals
7
Spay & Neuter Kansas City D/B/a Pet Resource Center of Kansas City

To decrease pet homelessness, increase pet retention and improve the quality of life for pets through education and supportive services for families in need.

Animals
8
Humane Animal Partners

Founded in 2023, humane animal partners is a nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. we are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. we make "friends for life" by connecting…

Animals
9
Humane Society of Scott County

The humane society of scott county provides humane care for all lost, abandoned and unwanted pets in scott county, to adopt these pets to caring, responsible, life-long homes, and to educate the community about responsible pet ownership.

Animals
10
Operation Kindness

Our mission is to create a kinder world for pets and the people who love them by providing lifesaving care, innovative programs, and community resources.

Animals
11
Ccmh Corporation

Provide a healthcare facility offering acure care, skilled care, outpatient services, and emergency medical services to residents of carroll county, kentucky and surrounding areas.

Health
12
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family & Children's Place Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. 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

16 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. 16 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PURITY CHAPTER NO 116: $4,400 · OtherPURITY CHAPTER NO 116GILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INC: $1,500 · OtherGILDA'S CLUB KENTUCKIANA INCROB MORRIS HOME FOUNDATION INC: $625 · OtherROB MORRIS HOME FOUNDATION INCHONOR FLIGHT BLUEGRASS: $625 · OtherHONOR FLIGHT BLUEGRASSSUMMIT HEIGHTS UNITED METHODIST: $500 · OtherSUMMIT HEIGHTS UNITED METHODISTROBERT MORRIS FOUNDATION INC: $550 · OtherROBERT MORRIS FOUNDATION INC21ST CENTURY PARKS INC: $400 · Other+3 more: $500 · Other+3 moreEASTERN STAR HOME IN KENTUCKY: $4,174 · Human ServicesEASTERN STAR HOME IN KENTUC…FAMILY & CHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $549 · Human ServicesFAMILY & CHILDREN'S PLACE I…HOSPARUS INC HOSPARUS HEALTH: $300 · Human ServicesHOSPARUS INC HOSPARUS HEALT…American Heart Association Inc: $1,425 · HealthAmerican He…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $600 · HealthAMERICAN CA…KOSAIR CHARITIES COMMITTEE INC: $100 · HealthKy Hopeful Paws Rescue Inc: $805 · AnimalsKy Hopeful…My Dog Eats First Inc: $549 · AnimalsMy Dog Eat…KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE: $500 · AnimalsKENTUCKY H…Veterans Club Inc: $1,049 · Public BenefitMETRO UNITED WAY INC: $964 · PhilanthropyDARE TO CARE INC: $725 · Food & Nutrition
Other$9,100Human Services$5,023Health$2,125Animals$1,854Public Benefit$1,049Philanthropy$964Food & Nutrition$725

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

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
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.

The Community Foundat…Republic Bank Foundat…The Gheens Foundation…The Community Foundat…The Community Foundat…Baird Foundation IncGe Aerospace Foundati…Samuel H Klein Family…Elite Homes Charitabl…The Sam Schubert Foun…Nicklies Foundation I…Brown-Forman Foundati…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Order of the Eastern Star Ch Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Order of the Eastern Star Ch Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–90%
    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.

    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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