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GRAND CHAPTER OF KENTUCKY ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR
GRAND CHAPTER OF KENTUCKY ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR (Kentucky) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,042 to it, the largest being ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR GENERAL GRAND CHAPTER ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $288k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $59k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Grand Chapter of Kentucky Order of the Eastern Star does
Mission
The order of the eastern star, dedicated to charity, truth, and loving kindness, is the largest organization in the world to which men and women may belong.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The order of the eastern star, dedicated to charity, truth, and loving kindness, is the largest organization in the world to which men and women may belong.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.1M to $1.1M (+7%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Tim Vanderhoof
Chairperson,
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $34k → $25k.
From the IRS filings of GRAND CHAPTER OF KENTUCKY ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
GRAND CHAPTER OF KENTUCKY ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund GRAND CHAPTER OF KENTUCKY ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 73% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
GRAND CHAPTER OF KENTUCKY ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like GRAND CHAPTER OF KENTUCKY ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GRAND CHAPTER OF KENTUCKY ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GRAND CHAPTER OF KENTUCKY ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR?
- GRAND CHAPTER OF KENTUCKY ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR (Kentucky) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $59,042 to it, the largest being ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR GENERAL GRAND CHAPTER ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GRAND CHAPTER OF KENTUCKY ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $59,042 in grants to GRAND CHAPTER OF KENTUCKY ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GRAND CHAPTER OF KENTUCKY ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR?
- ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR GENERAL GRAND CHAPTER is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GRAND CHAPTER OF KENTUCKY ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing