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Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks

To inculcate the principals of Charity.

$73k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$30kHuman Services$4kRecreation & Sports$3kArts & Culture$3kAnimals$3kYouth Development$1kEducation$1kEnvironment$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $10,995, the rows itemized in this filing. The $72,824 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $61,829 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.
$10,995
Median grant
1
States reached
$613k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Ohio Elks Charitable Trust$10,995
02The need
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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 (FY18–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Ohio Elks Charitable Trust: $11k → 5%Ohio Veterans Home: $1k → 11%Ohio Elks Charitable Trust: $9k → 5%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 field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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League of Ohio Sportsmen Foundation
Recreation & Sports
2
Rocky Mountain Veterans' Hunts & Excursions Inc
Recreation & Sports
3
Wooster Elks Lodge No 1346 Charitable Fund
Philanthropy
4
Amvets 0048 Amvets

Veterans organization

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5
Ohio Operation Lifesaver
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6
Ohio Veterans Outdoors Inc

Promote vetran health-hunting fishing ca

Public Benefit
7
Rotary Club of Upper Sandusky

Community service

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8
Ohio State University

Supporting 4-h youth development in hancock county, ohio.

Youth Development
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Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks #1737

None

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10
Stark County Veteran Memorial

Stark county veterans memorial association planned and built a memorial to honor stark county's more than 7,000 veterans from all branches of service from the spanish american war through today.

Arts & Culture
11
Cullman Elks Veteran Committee

Support of veterans and other charities

Human Services
12
Ohio Forest Sanctuaries

Conserving ohio's ecosystem through advocacy, education, and public outreach

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Benevolent and Protective Order Elk; the most unlike its peers is Star Players. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER ELK: $7,987 · OtherBENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER ELKWYANDOT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2,692 · OtherWYANDOT HEALTH FOUNDATIONWYANDOT WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CLUBS INC: $2,024 · OtherWYANDOT WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CLUBS INCHANNAHS HOUSE: $1,735 · OtherHANNAHS HOUSERAM BOOSTERS INC: $1,735 · OtherRAM BOOSTERS INCSalvation Army: $1,157 · OtherUPPERS WINTER FANTASY OF LIGHTS INC: $1,157 · OtherCity of Upper Sandusky: $1,157 · OtherWYANDOT COUNTY MIDGET FOOTBALL LEAGUE: $1,157 · OtherBIG NUT SCHOLORSHIP FUND INC: $1,157 · OtherAngeline Industries: $1,157 · OtherPHEASANTS FOREVER INC: $867 · OtherOHIO ELKS ASSOCIATION CHARITABLE TR: $19,971 · Human ServicesOHIO ELKS ASSOCIATION CHARITABLE TRTHE OHIO VETERANS HOME VOLUNTEER ADVISORY COMMITTEE INC: $1,157 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $867 · Human ServicesSTAR PLAYERS: $1,446 · Arts & CultureFRANK SHULESKI SCOUTING INC: $1,446 · Youth DevelopmentALL SPECIES ADOPTION PROGRAM: $867 · AnimalsCASA OF SENECA SANDUSKY & WYANDOT COUNTIES: $867 · Civil Rights
Other$23,982Human Services$21,995Arts & Culture$1,446Youth Development$1,446Animals$867Civil Rights$867

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOHIO ELKS ASSOCIATION CHARITABLE TR: $19,971 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetRAM BOOSTERS INC: $1,735 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetFRANK SHULESKI SCOUTING INC: $1,446 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetUPPERS WINTER FANTASY OF LIGHTS INC: $1,157 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE OHIO VETERANS HOME VOLUNTEER ADVISORY COMMITTEE INC: $1,157 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $867 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHEASANTS FOREVER INC: $867 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF SENECA SANDUSKY & WYANDOT COUNTIES: $867 over 1y, 0.4% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%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 · 0–90%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 19 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.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2026) is on record and reports $68k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2025, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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