| 100% | BPOE | 4 | Fraternal org. founded as the Jolly Corks |
| 57% | ELKS | 4 | Group started as the Jolly Corks |
| 45% | PTA | 3 | Org. founded in 1897 as the National Congress of Mothers |
| 45% | USCG | 4 | Org. founded by Alexander Hamilton as the Revenue-Marine |
| 42% | BPOE | 4 | Fraternal org. founded in 1868 |
| 42% | MWA | 3 | Fraternal org. founded in 1883, now with over 740,000 members, that was to protect families after the death of a breadwinner. (abbr.) |
| 42% | GAR | 3 | Fraternal org. for US Civil War vets founded in 1866 and dissolved with the death of its last member in 1956 |
| 42% | ELKS | 4 | Organization originally called the Jolly Corks |
| 40% | IBM | 3 | Co. founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company |
| 40% | PTA | 3 | Grp. founded as the National Congress of Mothers |
| 40% | TULANE | 6 | It was founded as the Medical College of Louisiana |
| 39% | IBM | 3 | It was originally founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. |
| 38% | IBM | 3 | Tech giant originally founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company: Abbr. |
| 38% | AAA | 3 | Org. found early in the phone book |
| 38% | NFL | 3 | Sports group that was founded as the American Professional Football Association: Abbr. |
| 38% | ELKS | 4 | Fraternal order founded as a club for minstrel show performers |
| 37% | VESALIUS | 8 | Flemish physician known as the Founder of Anatomy |
| 36% | THESALVATION | 12 | & 10A Organisation founded as the East London Christian Mission by William Booth in 1865 |
| 36% | GLAAD | 5 | Org. founded to combat sensationalized coverage of the AIDS crisis |
| 36% | ERNEST | 6 | Rutherford who's regarded as the founder of nuclear physics |
| 35% | NBA | 3 | Org. found in the answer to each asterisked clue |
| 35% | EPA | 3 | Org. created the same year as Earth Day |
| 34% | PIERREDE | 8 | 17th-century French mathematician regarded as the founder of modern number theory |
| 34% | NAACP | 5 | Org. founded on the 100th anniversary of Lincoln's birth |
| 34% | XXXX | 4 | Founding Father Stone, as he signed the Declaration of Independence |
| 34% | FDIC | 4 | Banking org. founded during the Depression |
| 34% | IMP | 3 | UVA secret philanthropic and mischievous org. founded in 1902 as the HOT FEET Society, now known as the ___ Society |
| 33% | FDIC | 4 | Banking org. founded during the Great Depression |
| 33% | STAMITZ | 7 | Johann —, 18th-century composer and violinist regarded as the founder of the Mannheim School |