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Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks 2521

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$11k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
4
Itemized grants FY2026
4
Organizations funded FY2025
25%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Itemized, FY2026
$7k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2026
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2026
$2,500
Organizations funded a year
1 to 6
FY2018 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
1
Total assets, FY2026
$1.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 25% of the organizations Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks 2521 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving4$7k0%
FY20254$7k25%
FY20244$8k75%
FY20233$8k0%
FY20223$6k100%
FY20216$9k100%
FY20191$10k0%
FY20181$32kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Philanthropy$42kFood & Nutrition$21kYouth Development$6kHuman Services$5kHealth$3kHousing & Shelter$2k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lifepath Inc$4,50030%

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($81k), not named here.

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About Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks 2521

How much does Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks 2521 give?
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks 2521 reported 4 itemized grants totaling $6,500, out of $11,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2025.
What does Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks 2521 fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2026, its largest causes are Philanthropy (53%), Food & Nutrition (27%), Youth Development (7%).
Who are Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks 2521's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2026: Lifepath Inc ($5k).
Does Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks 2521 fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks 2521 based?
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks 2521 is based in MA.

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 14 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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