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Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks Lodge 219
Community service through scholarships and other activities, services to veteran's organizations and disabled veterans, provision of facilities for use by members
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELKS HOME SERVICES PROGRAM | $7,135 |
| ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION | $4,342 |
| WOMENS SERVICES | $3,597 |
| ST JAMES HAVEN | $3,047 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,030 |
| SUPPORT FOR OUR TROOPS POST 52 | $1,544 |
| PENN STATE MIAN CAMPUS | $1,500 |
| PITTSBURGH INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICS | $1,000 |
| JONI AND FRIENDS | $1,000 |
| PENN STATE MAIN CAMPUS | $1,000 |
| KENT STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| MERCYHURST UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| DAEMEN UNIIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| NORTH COAST FILGHT SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $866 |
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 (FY17–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% 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.
13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 33 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, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- CFCENTER FOR FAMILY SERVICES INC2× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +60%
- SJSt James Haven Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $7k · revenue +1%
- QOQUILTS OF VALOR FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2025 · $250 · revenue +45%
Funded once
- BABENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS LODGE 21one grant, 2022 · $7k
- VOVeterans of the Vietnam War Inc Project Support Our Troopsone grant, 2017 · $7k
- PSPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 61 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 9% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 92 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 Pennsylvania Elks Major Projects Inc ↗
- Who funds ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds St James Haven Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MERCYHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JONI AND FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds DAEMEN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Marywood University ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICS ↗
- Who funds SETON HILL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HIRAM COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE FOR CREATIVE STUDIES ↗
- Who funds BETHANY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
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: Crawford Heritage Community Foundation · Ljl Family Foundation · Harry Winslow Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 219 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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