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The Grand Chapter of Florida Order of the Eastern Star Charitable Fd Inc at a glance

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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.

$547k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
—
States reached
$134k
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, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$827kFood & Nutrition$155kEducation$134kAnimals$88kHuman Services$50kYouth Development$40kCrime & Legal$35kPhilanthropy$34kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $480,012, the rows itemized in this filing. The $547,040 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $67,028 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $186k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $285k
$30,000
Median grant
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States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $8k → 10%CENTRAL FLORIDA DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION INC: $10k → 13%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of The Grand Chapter of Florida Order of the Eastern Star Charitable Fd Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 4% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 0%.

The Grand Chapter of Florida Order of the Eastern Star Charitable Fd Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

25%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$365k · 7 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
32

Total granted

$365k
$714k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+21%

Still filing today

100%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $379k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionEducationOther
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

  • TM
    THE MEDICAL FOUNDATION OF WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES AND NORTH CAR
    3× · 2023–2025 · $190k · revenue +119% · 32% of their budget
  • SG
    Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc
    5× · 2020–2025 · $80k · revenue +15%
  • TF
    THE FLORIDA STATE DEMOLAY ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $27k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • JD
    JOE DIMAGGIO CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $120k
  • SH
    SACRED HEART FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $110k · revenue +3%
  • TG
    TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +90%
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
Orlando Health Inc

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.

Health
2
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Florida Inc

The mission of the Organization is to provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.

Health
3
University of Florida Health Corporation

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,…

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4
Variety Children's Hospital

To inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child.

Health
5
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Southwest Florida Inc

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.

Health
6
Shands Jacksonville Healthcare Inc

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…

Health
7
Flagler Health Care Foundation Inc

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…

Health
8
BayCare Health System Inc

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.…

Health
9
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of North Central Florida Inc

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…

Health
10
Orlando Health Foundation Inc

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.

Health
11
The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast Inc

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.

Human Services
12
Flagler Hospital Inc

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tampa General Hospital Foundation Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 46 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
28/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE MEDICAL FOUNDATION OF WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES AND NORTH CAR: $189,580 · HealthTHE MEDICAL FOUNDATION OF WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY …SACRED HEART FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 · HealthSACRED HEART FOUNDATION INCTAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · HealthTAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCMiami Children's Health System Inc: $100,000 · HealthMiami Children's Health System IncH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE HOSPITAL INC: $44,461 · HealthH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUT…H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $35,692 · HealthH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUT…+3 more: $56,138 · Health+3 moreJOE DIMAGGIO CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FUND: $120,000 · OtherJOE DIMAGGIO CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FU…COOPERATIVE FEEDING PROGRAM INC: $35,000 · OtherCOOPERATIVE FEEDING PROGRAM INCTHE FLORIDA STATE DEMOLAY ASSOCIATION INC: $27,183 · OtherTHE FLORIDA STATE DEMOLAY ASSOCIAT…FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $26,349 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INCTHE GRAND CHAPTER OF FLORIDA ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR INC: $19,000 · OtherORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR GENERAL GRAND CHAPTER: $16,615 · OtherINTERNATIONAL ORDER OF THE RAINBOW: $16,506 · OtherPOLK COUNTY POLICE CHIEFS ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · OtherGIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC: $15,000 · OtherBrevard County Sheriff's Office Charity: $15,000 · OtherMIAMI HEART RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $16,196 · OtherLIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $15,000 · Other+13 more: $104,432 · Other+13 moreKCBS ADVANCE ACADEMY INC: $134,276 · EducationKCBS ADVANC…WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES: $10,000 · EducationWAKE FOREST…Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: $80,077 · Human ServicesSoutheaste…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesRONALD MCD…ECHO OF BRANDON INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesECHO OF BR…Central Florida Down Syndrome Assoc Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesCentral Fl…St Francis House: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterWATERFRONT RESCUE MISSION INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterFISHER HOUSE OF THE EMERALD COAST INC: $6,587 · Housing & ShelterRegional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc: $25,000 · Food & NutritionMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionPANTRY PLANTERS INC: $30,000 · Community Improvement
Health$635,871Other$441,281Education$144,276Human Services$130,077Housing & Shelter$41,587Food & Nutrition$35,000Community Improvement$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE MEDICAL FOUNDATION OF WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES AND NORTH CAR: $189,580 over 3y, 32% of budgetKCBS ADVANCE ACADEMY INC: $134,276 over 1y, 26% of budgetSACRED HEART FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $80,077 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE HOSPITAL INC: $44,461 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $35,692 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FLORIDA STATE DEMOLAY ASSOCIATION INC: $27,183 over 2y, 12% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $26,349 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Francis House: $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetRegional Food Bank of Northeast Florida Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF TAMPA BAY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetECHO OF BRANDON INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GRAND CHAPTER OF FLORIDA ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR INC: $19,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR GENERAL GRAND CHAPTER: $16,615 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ORDER OF THE RAINBOW: $16,506 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMIAMI HEART RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $16,196 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER & RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $16,138 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBrevard County Sheriff's Office Charity: $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetGIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AGING OF WEST FLORIDA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Florida Down Syndrome Assoc Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTampa Bay Area Chiefs of Police Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWATERFRONT RESCUE MISSION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEMOLAY INTERNATIONAL: $7,858 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPARTNERS FOR PETS: $7,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetFISHER HOUSE OF THE EMERALD COAST INC: $6,587 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWreaths Across America: $5,000 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.

Blue Cross Blue Shiel…Sansing Foundation IncPublix Super Markets …The Ayco Charitable F…Duke Energy FoundationShell USA Company Fou…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Enterprise Holdings F…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Verizon FoundationThe Bank of America C…
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida FoundationFL19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Grand Chapter of Florida Order of the Eastern Star Charitable Fd Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Grand Chapter of Florida Order of the Eastern Star Charitable Fd Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 200%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
20get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Grand Chapter of Florida Order of the Eastern Star Charitable Fd Inc 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 46 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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