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Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Bpoe 2645
Promoting the ideals of the bpo elks
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $78,201 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $266,700 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $188,499 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 $10k7 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION | $13,190 |
| DIAKONIA | $11,000 |
| MD FOOD BANK OF THE EASTERN SHORE | $9,000 |
| WORCESTER COUNTY GOLD | $9,000 |
| COASTAL HOSPICE | $9,000 |
| JUSTIN W JENNINGS FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| WILLIAM J JERNICK MEMORIAL FUND | $6,761 |
| CHESAPEAKE HOUSING MISSION | $6,250 |
| ATLANTIC GENERAL HOSPITAL | $6,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- ENELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +96%
- CHCOASTAL HOSPICE6× · 2018–2025 · $50k · revenue +24%
- DIDIAKONIA INC2× · 2024–2025 · $27k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- MDMaryland Delaware and District of Columbia Elks Assocone grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue +16%
- OCOcean City-Berlin Optimist Youth Foundation Incone grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue 0%
- SASALVATION ARMY NATIONAL CORPone grant, 2018 · $7k
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.
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To improve care for those facing life-limiting illness through direct support of patients and their families, public education and public advocacy.
Johnston health foundation seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people in our communities by supporting the patients, programs, and services of unc health johnston. the foundation seeks to be a philanthropic leader and…
Hospice and palliative care program for patients at the end of life. talbot hospice offers hope and compassionate support to those facing life limiting, serious or end of life illnesses.
The organization is affiliated with Associated Catholic Charities, Inc. (ACC) whose mission is "Inspired by the Gospel mandates to love, serve and teach, Catholic Charities provides care and services to improve the lives of Marylanders in…
We work to end the cycle of homelessness for the mentally ill by providing supportive transitional and permanent housing which promotes the dignity and accountability for the individual. our philosophy of dignity and accountability has…
To improve the quality of life for those in our communities experiencing advanced illness or bereavement through hospice and other pallative care, compassionate support and education.
To make quality hospice care available to persons with life threatening illnesses, their families, and those affected by death and dying in our community; to advocate effectively for patient comfort, dignity, and choice; and to be…
To work together with our interdisciplinary team to provide quality, coordinated, comprehensive patient and family-centered care that addresses the physical, spiritual, emotional and practical needs of our patients. we encourage our…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Worcester County Gold Inc and the most unlike its peers is William J Jernick Memorial Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 16 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 ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COASTAL HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds DIAKONIA INC ↗
- Who funds BELIEVE IN TOMORROW NATIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY GOLD INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE HOUSING MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds William J Jernick Memorial Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds JUSTIN W JENNINGS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Maryland Delaware and District of Columbia Elks Assoc ↗
- Who funds Ocean City-Berlin Optimist Youth Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER YOUTH AND FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES 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 the Eastern Shor · Synepuxent Post No 166 the American Legion Inc · Humphreys Foundation Inc · Franklin P and Arthur W Perdue Foundation Inc · United Way of the Lower Eastern Shore Inc · Wilde Charitable Foundation · L Franklin Purnell Foundation · Baker-Dickerson Family Foundation · Jack Burbage Foundation Inc · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Bpoe 2645 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.
- Diakonia Inc — 51% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% 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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