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Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks 1246
Our mission emphasizes elkdom's commitment to promoting the four cardinal virtues of charity, justice, brotherly love, and fidelity.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $176,353 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $299,680 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $123,327 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 $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FOUNDATION OF GREATER METROWEST | $58,103 |
| YCS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| SUMMIT AREA YMCA | $12,500 |
| SAGE ELDERCARE INC | $12,500 |
| CAMP MOORE | $12,250 |
| SUMMIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE | $12,000 |
| CITY OF SUMMIT | $10,500 |
| NATIONAL POLICING INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| VETS4WARRIORS | $10,000 |
| OUR HOUSE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF SUMMIT | $7,000 |
| GOOD GRIEF | $6,500 |
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 (FY22–25, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 66% 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 97% of Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks 1246’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, 89% of the giving stays in NJ; read by stated purpose it is 3% — 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.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 6 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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k 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
- SASUMMIT AREA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION4× · 2022–2025 · $42k · revenue +15%
- SESAGE ELDERCARE3× · 2023–2025 · $38k · revenue +8%
- CCCHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF SUMMIT NJ4× · 2022–2025 · $28k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- ECEAST CENTRAL DISTRICT VETS COMMITTEEone grant, 2024 · $23k
- ENELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $19k · revenue -35%
- TNThe New Jersey Golf Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue +81%
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.
To maintain and enhance the high quality of a summit, new jersey public school education through community funding of innovative and essential educational grants, a close working relationship with the school district, and careful review,…
The foundation's mission is to support current and future members of the workforce in becoming globally competitive, successful members of society and to fuel new jersey's economy by sustaining a qualified workforce.
The new jersey state golf association, inc. ("the association") is a non-profit organization of public and private clubs that was formed for the purpose of preserving and promoting the game of golf throughout the state of new jersey.the…
The summit foundation is a tax-exempt community foundation that fosters philanthropy in the greater summit nj area. the foundation uses competitive grants and the wishes of donors to meet the needs of the community.
The new jersey state golf association caddie scholarship foundation, inc. (the "foundation") was formed to provide college financial aid to caddies of member clubs of the new jersey state golf association, inc., which also administers the…
Established in 1959, the foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization that raises, invests, and distributes philanthropic gifts on behalf of new jersey institute of technology (njit), the state's public polytechnic university. in…
Support charitable activities of new jersey order of elks
To fund programs that support the overall mission of the college of new jersey.
North jersey elks developmental disabilities agency's mission is to advance the independence and to enrich the quality of life of individuals with disabilities by providing opportunities to challenge themselves to learn and grow…
To provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of olympic type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate…
The organization was established to promote, advance, and improve, financially and otherwise, the welfare, working conditions, and other interests of police and law enforcement officers through out the state of new jersey.
The mission of the new jersey education association is to advance and protect the rights, benefits, and interests of members, and promote a quality system of public education for all students.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elks National Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Good Grief Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 20 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 Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT AREA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SAGE ELDERCARE ↗
- Who funds CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF SUMMIT NJ ↗
- Who funds YCS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY STATE ELKS ASSOCIATION SPECIAL CHILDRENS COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF SUMMIT NJ ↗
- Who funds The New Jersey Golf Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds VMI Foundation ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL POLICING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GRACE - GIVING AND RECEIVING ASSISTANCE FOR OUR COMMUNITY'S ESSENTIALS INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD GRIEF INC ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY STATE ELKS ASSOCIATION NATION AL VETERANS SERVICE CHARITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE INC ↗
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: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Investors Foundation Inc · The Summit Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Miano Family Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks 1246 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.
- Sage Eldercare — 1% of income from government
- Our House Inc — 1% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 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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