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Order of the Eastern Star General Grand Chapter at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Order of the Eastern Star General Grand Chapter

The purposes of the organization are: charitable, educational, fraternal, and scientific.

$14k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$254kHuman Services$10kMembership Benefit$10k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $10,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $14,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR OF FLORIDA GRAND CHAPTER$10,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 77% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%GRAND CHAPTER OF CALIFORNIA ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR: $25k → 10%MASONIC CHARITIES OF HAWAII: $13k → 9%GRAND CHAPTER OF TEXAS: $25k → 11%GRAND CHAPTER OF FLORIDA: $11k → 12%GRAND CHAPTER OF OHIO: $10k → 14%GRAND CHAPTER OF WEST VIRGINIA: $10k → 20%GRAND CHAPTER OF LOUISIANA: $10k → 15%GRAND CHAPTER OF LOUISIANA: $25k → 23%GRAND CHAPTER OF KENTUCKY: $25k → 4%ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR OF FLORIDA GRAND CHAPTER: $10k → 12%GRAND CHAPTER OF LOUISIANA: $25k → 23%GRAND CHAPTER OF KENTUCKY: $25k → 4%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.

Which US states its grants reach

OH
CA
KY
WV
VA
HI
LA
FL
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$191k · 4 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
5

Total granted

$191k
$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
+11%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • OO
    ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR OF
    3× · 2017–2022 · $60k · revenue +25%
  • GC
    GRAND CHAPTER OF KENTUCKY ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR
    2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue -21%
  • TG
    THE GRAND CHAPTER OF FLORIDA ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR INC
    3× · 2019–2025 · $46k · revenue -1%

Funded once

  • GC
    GRAND CHAPTER OF TEXAS ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +15%
  • GC
    GRAND CHAPTER OF CALIFORNIA ORDER OF THE EASTERN STARgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +28%
  • MC
    MASONIC CHARITIES OF HAWAII
    one grant, 2024 · $13k
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
Order of the Eastern Star of Minnesota Grand Chapter

The coordinating body (grand chapter) for the state of minnesota.

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2
Grand Chapter of Ohio of the Eastern Star Charitable Foundation

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…

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3
The Grand Chapter of the State of New York Royal Arch Masons

Fraternal organization

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4
Grand Lodge of Florida Museum & Library Inc
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5
The Grand Lodge of Texas Ancient Free and Accepted Masons

Fraternal organization

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6
Order of the Eastern Star General Grand Chapter

The purposes of the organization are: charitable, educational, fraternal, and scientific.

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7
Grand Chapter of Pennsylvania Order of the Eastern Star Inc

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…

Community Improvement
8
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks

Fraternal organization which was founded on the principles of charity, justice, brotherly love, fidelity, and belief in god.

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9
Eastern Star of Mass Charitable Foundation Inc

To provide care to the aged and indigent members of the order/organization.

Housing & Shelter
10
Order of the Eastern Star of the

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

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11
Indiana Grand Chapter Order of the Easte

Fraternal and charitable activities

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12
Benevolent & Protective Order of 0791

To carry on fraternal activities under the lodge system the net income of which is used exclusively for benevolent and charitable purposes.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Order of the Eastern Star of Washington Grand Chapter; 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.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR OF: $60,000 · OtherORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR OFGRAND CHAPTER OF KENTUCKY ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR: $50,000 · OtherGRAND CHAPTER OF KENTUCKY ORDER OF THE EASTERN STARTHE GRAND CHAPTER OF FLORIDA ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR INC: $46,000 · OtherTHE GRAND CHAPTER OF FLORIDA ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR INCGRAND CHAPTER OF PUERTO RICO: $35,000 · OtherGRAND CHAPTER OF PUERTO RICOGRAND CHAPTER OF TEXAS ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR: $25,000 · OtherGRAND CHAPTER OF TEXAS ORDER OF THE EASTERN STARGRAND CHAPTER OF CALIFORNIA ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR: $25,000 · OtherGRAND CHAPTER OF CALIFORNIA ORDER OF THE EASTERN STARORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR OF WASHINGTON GRAND CHAPTER: $10,000 · OtherGRAND CHAPTER OF OHIO ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR INC: $10,000 · OtherMASONIC CHARITIES OF HAWAII: $13,400 · Crime & Legal
Other$261,000Crime & Legal$13,400

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR OF: $60,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetGRAND CHAPTER OF KENTUCKY ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR: $50,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetTHE GRAND CHAPTER OF FLORIDA ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR INC: $46,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetGRAND CHAPTER OF TEXAS ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGRAND CHAPTER OF CALIFORNIA ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR: $25,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetMASONIC CHARITIES OF HAWAII: $13,400 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR OF WASHINGTON GRAND CHAPTER: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetGRAND CHAPTER OF OHIO ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to Order of the Eastern Star General Grand Chapter through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 9 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 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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