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Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks 0997 at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks 0997

To provide and support community activities including those with youth and veterans.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$17kCrime & Legal$6kHealth$5kHuman Services$5kCommunity Improvement$4kRecreation & Sports$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$629k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Veterans Food Pantry$4,000
Childrens Advocacy Center$3,500
Community Action Pioneer Valley$2,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–22, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Northampton Survival Center: $4k → 12%Northampton Survival Center: $4k → 12%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$33k · 7 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue 0% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
4

Total granted

$33k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
-4%

Still filing today

43%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
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

  • VF
    Veterans Food Pantry
    2× · 2024–2025 · $8k
  • NS
    NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $7k · revenue +7%
  • CA
    Childrens Advocacy Center
    2× · 2024–2025 · $6k

Funded once

  • SP
    SAFE PASSAGE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -4%
  • AO
    ALL OUT ADVENTURES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +11%
  • CC
    CANCER CONNECTION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -9%
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 11 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)
6/7
Grantees still filing
2/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Veterans Food Pantry: $8,000 · OtherVeterans Food PantryChildrens Advocacy Center: $6,000 · OtherChildrens Advocacy CenterMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $4,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDCOMMUNITY ACTION PIONEER VALLEY: $4,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION PIONEER VALLEYSAFE PASSAGE INC: $3,000 · OtherSAFE PASSAGE INCEASTHAMPTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,833 · OtherEASTHAMPTON COMMUNITY CENTER+1 more: $833 · OtherNORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesNORTHAMPTON SURVIVA…ALL OUT ADVENTURES INC: $2,500 · HealthALL OUT A…CANCER CONNECTION INC: $1,000 · HealthCANCER CO…MANNA SOUP KITCHEN: $1,834 · Food & Nutrition
Other$27,666Human Services$7,000Health$3,500Food & Nutrition$1,834

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PIONEER VALLEY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE PASSAGE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALL OUT ADVENTURES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEASTHAMPTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,833 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCANCER CONNECTION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Community Foundation …Florence Savings Char…Easthampton Savings B…The Beveridge Family …The Zoe FoundationMass General Brigham …Ro Family FoundationThe Mo and Cher Wille…United Way of the Fra…Peoplesbank Charitabl…The Food Bank of West…Agnes M Lindsay Trust
Community Foundation of Western MassachusettsMA21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · Florence Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Easthampton Savings Bank Foundation Inc · The Beveridge Family Foundation · The Zoe Foundation · Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return · Ro Family Foundation · The Mo and Cher Willems Foundation · United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire Region · Peoplesbank Charitable Foundation Inc · The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust

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 Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks 0997 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks 0997. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Community Action Pioneer Valley: 62% of income from government
  • Safe Passage Inc: 55% of income from government
  • All Out Adventures Inc: 47% of income from government
  • Manna Soup Kitchen: 15% of income from government
  • Northampton Survival Center Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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 11 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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