· Private foundation
Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks of the USA Charity Fund Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $29k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELKS NEEDY FAMILY CHRISTMAS PROGRAM | $18,421 |
| ELKS YOUTH ACTIVITIES | $10,538 |
| NOURISH LA | $4,000 |
| LOCAL HOMELESS PROJECT | $4,000 |
| SANTA MONICA ARTS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| DRUG AWARENESS ESSAY CONTEST | $1,700 |
| ELKS FAMILY ASSISTANCE | $1,067 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| GOWING HOPE GARDENS | $1,000 |
| ST JOSEPHS CENTER | $1,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $480 |
| GIRL SCOUTS TROOP 1445 | $200 |
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 (FY17–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA MONICA INC3× · 2017–2019 · $11k · revenue +46%
- SJST JOSEPH CENTER7× · 2017–2024 · $6k · revenue +276%
- WFWESTSIDE FOOD BANK2× · 2020–2021 · $6k · revenue +127%
Funded once
- DPDICTIONARY PROJECTone grant, 2019 · $15k
- EDELKS DICTIONARY PROJECTone grant, 2017 · $5k
- SMSANTA MONICA POLICA ACTIVITIES LEAGUEone grant, 2022 · $4k
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.
Girls youth softball - ages 4 to 14 clinics, practices & games - spring, summer & fall
The mission of the sheriff's activities league is to invest in all youth of san mateo county by creating opportunities that guide them toward their full potential through impactful programs, which foster relationships between deputies,…
The santa monica science magnet program is a two year program designed for students who demonstrate interest in the sciences. this program offers extra curricular activities to 7th and 8th graders. the association's activities are designed…
Community based organization.
Hollywood pal drives positive change in the community we serve by partnering with lapd and school-aged youth in programs that celebrate diversity, equity, and inclusion and inspire personal excellence, social awareness, and civic…
The santa barbara police activities league (sbpal) builds bridges between youth, law enforcement, and the community through mentorship, leadership, and academic enrichment. we maintain an open-door policy for all youth ages 11-18, with a…
Historical nbsp;preservation nbsp;and nbsp;education
Provide resources, education and services to the underserved African-American youth population in Los Angeles.
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The Topanga Police Youth Board exists to support the development and growth of the community youth by supporting the Police Activity League (PALs) program which is a gang diversion and leadership program.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Club of Santa Monica Inc and the most unlike its peers is Los Angeles County Police Canine Assoc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 36 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA MONICA INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH CENTER ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SANTA MONICA POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds St Anne School ↗
- Who funds SANTA MONICA ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLAREMATRIX ↗
- Who funds Los Angeles County Police Canine Assoc ↗
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: California Community Foundation · 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 of the USA Charity Fund Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.