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Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Bpoe 2645

Promoting the ideals of the bpo elks

$242k
Granted FY2026still arriving
8
Grants FY2026still arriving
3
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Health$88kPhilanthropy$65kHousing & Shelter$44kHuman Services$43kFood & Nutrition$21kYouth Development$14kRecreation & Sports$13kEducation$6k
02FY2026 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $73,785, the rows itemized in this filing. The $242,387 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $168,602 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.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k6 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
$6,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION$21,285
MDDEDC ELKS ASSOC$15,000
JUSTIN W JENNINGS FOUNDATION$8,000
DIAKONIA$6,500
BELIEVE IN TOMORROW CHILDRENS FOUND$6,000
WORCESTER COUNTY GOLD$6,000
WILLIAM J JERNICK MEMORIAL FUND$5,500
MAC INC$5,500
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 (FY23–26, $96k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COASTAL HOSPICE: $9k → 8%WILLIAM J JERNICK MEMORIAL FUND: $10k → 11%WILLIAM J JERNICK MEMORIAL FUND: $7k → 11%WILLIAM J JERNICK MEMORIAL FUND: $6k → 11%WORCESTER COUNTY YOUTH & FAMILY: $6k → 8%DIAKONIA: $16k → 8%DIAKONIA: $11k → 8%DIAKONIA: $7k → 8%WORCESTER COUNTY GOLD: $11k → 8%WORCESTER COUNTY GOLD: $9k → 8%WORCESTER COUNTY GOLD: $6k → 8%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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$324k · 10 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2026, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
6

Total granted

$324k
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
0%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25’26
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • EN
    ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2026 · $86k · revenue +96%
  • CH
    COASTAL HOSPICE
    6× · 2018–2025 · $50k · revenue +24%
  • DI
    DIAKONIA INC
    3× · 2024–2026 · $34k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • OC
    Ocean City-Berlin Optimist Youth Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue 0%
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY NATIONAL CORP
    one grant, 2018 · $7k
  • WY
    WORCESTER YOUTH AND FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +5%
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

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.

1
The John B Parsons Foundation
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2
Williamsburg Community Health Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Jenkins Memorial Nursing Home Inc

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…

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4
Tidalhealth Nanticoke Inc

Improve the health of the communities we serve.

Health
5
At Jacobs Well Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
6
Hospice of the Chesapeake Foundation Inc

To support hospice of the chesapeake, inc., hospice of charles county, calvert hospice in their mission to improve the quality of life for those in our communities experiencing advanced illness or bereavement through hospice, palliative…

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7
Delaware Hospice Inc

Our mission is to support every individual, family, and community with compassionate and expert care for serious illness. this is accomplished through a variety of programs and services: delaware transitions, delaware palliative, delaware…

Human Services
8
Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation

Johns hopkins health system corporation provides centralized management of a multi-hospital healthcare system. it is a key component of johns hopkins medicine, a collaboration with the johns hopkins university school of medicine.

Health
9
Wrc Pennsylvania Memorial Home

Wrc pennsylvania memorial home's mission is to provide choices for generations. built on a not-for-profit foundation of caring, the organization offers residential and personal care, home and community-based services, skilled and…

Health
10
The Washington Home Inc
Health
11
Webster Memorial Hospital Inc

The mission of webster memorial hospital is to provide excellent, high quality care in a compassionate and cost-effective manner.

Health
12
Westminster-Canterbury On Chesapeake Bay

The mission of westminster-canterbury on chesapeake bay is to establish, provide, maintain, operate, manage, control, or regulate one or more health care or residential services for older adults, including providing services in the homes…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Worcester County Gold Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 17 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)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COASTAL HOSPICE: $49,500 · Human ServicesCOASTAL HOSPICEDIAKONIA INC: $33,500 · Human ServicesDIAKONIA INCWORCESTER COUNTY GOLD INC: $26,000 · Human ServicesWORCESTER COUNTY GOLD INCWilliam J Jernick Memorial Fund Inc: $21,776 · Human ServicesWilliam J Jernick Memorial Fund IncWORCESTER YOUTH AND FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $86,229 · PhilanthropyELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INCOcean City-Berlin Optimist Youth Foundation Inc: $7,500 · PhilanthropyOcean City-Berlin Optimist Y…Maryland Delaware and District of Columbia Elks Assoc: $22,520 · OtherMaryland Delaware an…THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $20,500 · OtherTHE MARYLAND FOOD BA…SALVATION ARMY NATIONAL CORP: $7,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY NATIO…STEPHEN DECATUR HIGH SCHOOL: $6,000 · OtherSTEPHEN DECATUR HIGH…TOWN OF OCEAN CITY: $5,500 · OtherTOWN OF OCEAN CITYMAC INCORPORATED: $5,500 · OtherMAC INCORPORATEDBELIEVE IN TOMORROW NATIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $30,900 · HealthBELIEVE IN TOMOR…JUSTIN W JENNINGS FOUNDATION INC: $16,000 · HealthJUSTIN W JENNING…ATLANTIC GENERAL HOSPITAL: $6,000 · HealthATLANTIC GENERAL…CHESAPEAKE HOUSING MISSION INC: $17,450 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$136,776Philanthropy$93,729Other$67,020Health$52,900Housing & Shelter$17,450

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 budgetELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $86,229 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOASTAL HOSPICE: $49,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDIAKONIA INC: $33,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBELIEVE IN TOMORROW NATIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $30,900 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWORCESTER COUNTY GOLD INC: $26,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetMaryland Delaware and District of Columbia Elks Assoc: $22,520 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetWilliam J Jernick Memorial Fund Inc: $21,776 over 3y, 12% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $20,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE HOUSING MISSION INC: $17,450 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetOcean City-Berlin Optimist Youth Foundation Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 22% of budgetWORCESTER YOUTH AND FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetATLANTIC GENERAL HOSPITAL: $6,000 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.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …Synepuxent Post No 16…Humphreys Foundation …Franklin P and Arthur…United Way of the Low…Wilde Charitable Foun…L Franklin Purnell Fo…Baker-Dickerson Famil…Jack Burbage Foundati…The Carl M Freeman Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…
Community Foundation of the Eastern ShorMD22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Bpoe 2645 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Bpoe 2645. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 51%
  • Diakonia Inc: 51% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 Bpoe 2645 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.

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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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