· Public charity
Order of the Eastern Star General Grand Chapter
The purposes of the organization are: charitable, educational, fraternal, and scientific.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 95% of ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR GENERAL GRAND CHAPTER’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.
The 1 grants below total $10,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $14,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR OF FLORIDA GRAND CHAPTER | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 77% of your 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.
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.
4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
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
- OOORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR OF3× · 2017–2022 · $60k · revenue -25%
- GCGRAND CHAPTER OF KENTUCKY ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue -21%
- TGTHE GRAND CHAPTER OF FLORIDA ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR INC3× · 2019–2025 · $46k · revenue -1%
Funded once
- GCGRAND CHAPTER OF TEXAS ORDER OF THE EASTERN STARone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +15%
- GCGRAND CHAPTER OF CALIFORNIA ORDER OF THE EASTERN STARone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -28%
- MCMASONIC CHARITIES OF HAWAIIone grant, 2024 · $13k
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.
The coordinating body (grand chapter) for the state of minnesota.
Our mission is to provide a means by which fraternal and community relationships can be encouraged and improved. the foundation operates as a charitable corporation subordinate of the grand chapter of ohio order of the eastern star…
Fraternal organization
Fraternal organization
The purposes of the organization are: charitable, educational, fraternal, and scientific.
The purpose of this grand chapter, and the subordinate chapters constituted by and under its authority, is to promote the practice of charity and fraternity, exclusively within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code…
Fraternal organization which was founded on the principles of charity, justice, brotherly love, fidelity, and belief in god.
To provide care to the aged and indigent members of the order/organization.
To raise funds for and otherwise support charitable, educational, fraternal and scientific purposes and to provide governance and administrative services to local district of columbia chapters of the order of the eastern star
Fraternal and charitable activities
To carry on fraternal activities under the lodge system the net income of which is used exclusively for benevolent and charitable purposes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Order of the Eastern Star of Washington Grand Chapter and the most unlike its peers is Masonic Charities of Hawaii. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 9 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 ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR OF ↗
- Who funds GRAND CHAPTER OF KENTUCKY ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR ↗
- Who funds THE GRAND CHAPTER OF FLORIDA ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND CHAPTER OF TEXAS ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR ↗
- Who funds GRAND CHAPTER OF CALIFORNIA ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR ↗
- Who funds MASONIC CHARITIES OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds GRAND CHAPTER OF OHIO ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR INC ↗
- Who funds ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR OF WASHINGTON GRAND CHAPTER ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Order of the Eastern Star General Grand Chapter 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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