· Public charity
Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks Lodge #224
To provide charitable assistance to individuals and organizations and host community events.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 67% of BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS LODGE #224’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $99,140 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $150,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $50,860 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k7 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO | $23,600 |
| UNCLAIMED SCHOLARSHIPS TO BE PAID | $13,698 |
| COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY | $12,660 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $10,542 |
| PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY | $6,220 |
| DENISON UNIVERSITY | $6,220 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $5,320 |
| COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON | $5,220 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $5,220 |
| FROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,220 |
| SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY | $5,220 |
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 (FY17–17, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +31% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 22 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY3× · 2017–2021 · $18k · revenue +57%- TCTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +60%
- CUCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY2× · 2019–2020 · $14k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- AYASPEN YOUTH CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +81%
- WUWESTMINSTER UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue -30%
- RUREGIS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +4%
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Tufts College and the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 76 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
54 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. 54 of the 106 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 BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds ASPEN YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Fordham University ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds REGIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Eckerd College ↗
- Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Pacific Lutheran University ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds DICKINSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 & Protective Order of Elks Lodge #224 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.
- Trustees of Tufts College — 11% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Pacific University — 5% of income from government
- Willamette University — 4% of income from government
- The University of Tulsa — 2% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 2% of income from government
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 2% of income from government
- Lewis & Clark College — 2% of income from government
- Goucher College — 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 0% of income from government
- Eckerd College — 0% 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.