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Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks USA Mission Viejo Lodge 2444
To inculcate the principles of charity, justice, brotherly love and fidelity; to recognize a belief in god; to promote the welfare and enhance the happiness of its members; to quicken the spirit of american patriotism; to cultivate good fellowship; to perpetuate itself as a fraternal organization, and to provide for its governance, the…
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS USA MISSION VIEJO LODGE 2444’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 4 grants below total $88,911 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $162,103 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $73,192 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 $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $82k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALIFORNIA-HAWAII ELKS ASSOCI | $38,200 |
| ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC | $33,110 |
| DICTIONARY PROJECT THE | $10,601 |
| MISSION VIEJO HS | $7,000 |
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 (FY21–21, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- BPBENEVOLENT PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF USA CALIFORNIA-HAWAII ELKS ASSOCIATION4× · 2022–2025 · $334k · revenue +25%
- ENELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $311k · revenue -1%
- TDTHE DICTIONARY PROJECT4× · 2022–2025 · $47k · revenue -12%
Funded once
MISSION HOSPITAL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +23%- CECALIFORNIA-HAWAII ELKS MAJOR PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $14k · revenue +27%
StandUp for Kidsone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +13%
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.
To include the principles of charity, justice, brotherly love and fidelity; to recognize a belief in god; to promote the welfare and enhance the happiness or its members; to quicken the spirit of american patriotism; to cultivate good…
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The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
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To inculcate the principles of charity, justice, brotherly love and fidelity; to recognize a belief in god; to promote the welfare and enhance the happiness of its members; to quicken the spirit of american patriotism; to cultivate good…
Fraternal organization that coordinates various programs for state associations and subordinate lodges of the order of elks.
The organization's primary mission is to facilitate a fraternal environment for its members, as well as to contribute to the betterment of individuals and the community through charitable activities.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elks National Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is StandUp for Kids. 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 9 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 BENEVOLENT PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF USA CALIFORNIA-HAWAII ELKS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE DICTIONARY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFFS ADVISORY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MISSION HOSPITAL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA-HAWAII ELKS MAJOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds StandUp for Kids ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CRANIOFACIAL ASSOCIATION ↗
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 and Protective Order of Elks USA Mission Viejo Lodge 2444 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.
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