· Public charity
The Grand Chapter of Florida Order of the Eastern Star Charitable Fd Inc
A fraternal organization whose members are dedicated to supporting various charitable causes such as research of regenerative medicine, heart disease, cancer and support of hospitals for treatment of cancer and children, support of youth organizations, as well as educational scholarships and grants for youth.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $480,012 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $547,040 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $67,028 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $186k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $285k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KCBS ADVANCE ACADEMY INC | $134,276 |
| MIAMI CHILDREN'S HEALTH SYSTEM INC | $100,000 |
| WAKE FOREST INSTITUTE REGENERATIVE MEDIC | $51,000 |
| H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH | $44,461 |
| THE COOPERATIVE FEEDING PROGRAM INC | $35,000 |
| DOGS INC | $30,000 |
| PANTRY PLANTERS INC | $30,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES | $20,000 |
| GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC | $15,000 |
| THE GRAND CHAPTER OF FLORIDA ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR INC | $12,000 |
| GENERAL GRAND CHAPTER ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR | $8,275 |
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 (FY20–20, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 55% of those 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of The Grand Chapter of Florida Order of the Eastern Star Charitable Fd Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 4% of the giving stays in FL; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $379k 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
- TMTHE MEDICAL FOUNDATION OF WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES AND NORTH CAR3× · 2023–2025 · $190k · revenue +119% · 32% of their budget
- SGSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc5× · 2020–2025 · $80k · revenue +15%
- TFTHE FLORIDA STATE DEMOLAY ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2022–2024 · $27k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- JDJOE DIMAGGIO CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FUNDone grant, 2022 · $120k
- SHSACRED HEART FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $110k · revenue +3%
- TGTAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +116%
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.
Orlando health is a trusted leader inspiring hope through the advancement of health. our mission as a community-owned organization is to improve the health and quality of life of the individuals and communities we serve.
The mission of the Organization is to provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…
To inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child.
The mission of ronald mcdonald house charities of southwest florida is to provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
As a part of UF Health, the organization's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across…
The organization's mission is to support uf health promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the…
BAYCARE HEALTH SYSTEM, INC. (BCHS) WILL IMPROVE THE HEALTH OF ALL WE SERVE THROUGH COMMUNITY-OWNED HEALTH CARE SERVICES THAT SET THE STANDARD FOR HIGH-QUALITY, COMPASSIONATE CARE. BCHS is the best place to work, receive and provide care.…
The mission of ronald mcdonald house charities of north central florida is to directly improve the health and well being of children. we accomplish this mission through two programs, the ronald mcdonald house and the ronald mcdonald family…
The mission of the orlando health foundation is to support the strategic priorities of orlando health through philanthropy. this is accomplished through special events and annual major and planned gift fundraising efforts.
Suncoast hospice's mission is to be the center to improve life for those touched by advanced illness, death, dying, grief, bereavement and other end-of-life issues.
As a part of UF Health, the organization's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tampa General Hospital Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Partners for Pets. 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 33 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 20% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 46 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 THE MEDICAL FOUNDATION OF WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES AND NORTH CAR ↗
- Who funds KCBS ADVANCE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Miami Children's Health System Inc ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FEEDING PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds PANTRY PLANTERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FLORIDA STATE DEMOLAY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds St Francis House ↗
- Who funds Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds ECHO OF BRANDON INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTH ↗
- Who funds THE GRAND CHAPTER OF FLORIDA ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR INC ↗
- Who funds ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR GENERAL GRAND CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ORDER OF THE RAINBOW ↗
- Who funds MIAMI HEART RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER & RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Brevard County Sheriff's Office Charity ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON AGING OF WEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Central Florida Down Syndrome Assoc Inc ↗
- Who funds WATERFRONT RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Tampa Bay Area Chiefs of Police Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PINELLAS COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds DEMOLAY INTERNATIONAL ↗
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: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · Sansing Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 The Grand Chapter of Florida Order of the Eastern Star Charitable Fd Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Council On Aging of West Florida Inc — 7% of income from government
- H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Hospital Inc — 3% of income from government
- Regional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs 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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