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Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at a glance

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Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks

To provide benefits to our members and charitable benefits to our community

$79k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$38k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$168kHealth$73kFood & Nutrition$30kHousing & Shelter$30kRecreation & Sports$24kHuman Services$23kPhilanthropy$20kReligion$12k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $62,142, the rows itemized in this filing. The $78,730 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $16,588 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$12,170
Median grant
1
States reached
$875k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
New Phila Elks Scholarship$37,802
Tuscarawas Co Council for Church$12,170
RTY Inc$12,170
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HOSPICE OF TUSCARAWAS COUNTY: $6k → 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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$291k · 8 repeat orgs$92k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +96% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
10

Total granted

$291k
$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+96%
+12%

Still filing today

38%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • FO
    Friends of the Homeless
    5× · 2018–2023 · $30k · revenue +550%
  • EN
    ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +96%
  • TC
    TUSCARAWAS CLINIC FOR THE WORKING UNINSURED
    2× · 2023–2024 · $18k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • TC
    TUSCARAWAS COUNTY PONY LEAGUE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $12k
  • OE
    OHIO ELKS ASSOCIATION CP FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $7k
  • O
    OhioGuidestone
    one grant, 2024 · $7k · revenue +12%
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, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 20 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW PHILADELPHIA ELKS 510 SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $168,387 · OtherNEW PHILADELPHIA ELKS 510 SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATIONDOVERPHILA FOOD PANTRY: $18,249 · OtherDOVERPHILA FOOD PANTRYCOMMUNITY HOSPICE OF TUSC COUNTY 1: $12,625 · OtherFAMILY PERSONAL COUNCELING 1: $12,625 · OtherRTY INC: $12,170 · OtherTUSCARAWAS COUNTY PONY LEAGUE INC: $11,946 · OtherOHIO ELKS ASSOICATION CP FUND 1: $10,000 · Other+7 more: $43,023 · Other+7 moreFriends of the Homeless: $30,425 · Housing & ShelterFriends o…TUSCARAWAS CLINIC FOR THE WORKING UNINSURED: $17,746 · HealthOhioGuidestone: $7,168 · HealthELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $20,483 · PhilanthropyTUSCARAWAS COUNTY COUNCIL FOR CHURCH AND COMMUNITY: $12,170 · Community ImprovementHOSPICE OF TUSCARAWAS COUNTY INC: $5,800 · Human Services
Other$289,025Housing & Shelter$30,425Health$24,914Philanthropy$20,483Community Improvement$12,170Human Services$5,800

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFriends of the Homeless: $30,425 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $20,483 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTUSCARAWAS CLINIC FOR THE WORKING UNINSURED: $17,746 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetTUSCARAWAS COUNTY COUNCIL FOR CHURCH AND COMMUNITY: $12,170 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetOhioGuidestone: $7,168 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF TUSCARAWAS COUNTY INC: $5,800 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Friends of the Homeless ↗
  • Who funds ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TUSCARAWAS CLINIC FOR THE WORKING UNINSURED ↗
  • Who funds TUSCARAWAS COUNTY COUNCIL FOR CHURCH AND COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds RTY INC ↗
  • Who funds OhioGuidestone ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF TUSCARAWAS COUNTY INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 20 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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