How much did ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2025?

ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC reported 1,485 grants totaling $35,781,683 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Where is ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC based?

ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC is based in IL.

ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC

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ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC

The foundation's mission is to help the benevolent and protective order of elks of the united states of america (bpoe) build stronger communities by offering college scholarships, funding programs that build the character and confidence of youth, serving veterans, and providing elks lodges and state associations with resources they need…

$36M

Granted FY2025

1,485

Grants

Communities

$5.6M

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 71% of ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

—

2020

pacific

2021

—

2022

—

2023

investmentsfraternalactivitiesbrotherly lovejustice brotherlylove fidelitywelfare

2024

investmentsfraternalactivitieslodgebrotherly lovejustice brotherlylove fidelity

2025

fraternalactivitieslodgebrotherly lovejustice brotherlylove fidelitywelfare

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 1485 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k1286 grants · $11M
$10k–50k150 grants · $2.0M
$50k–250k29 grants · $3.3M
$250k+20 grants · $16M

$8,500

Median grant

States reached

$885M

Total assets

Largest grants

ELKS NATIONAL VETERANS SERVICE COMMISSION$5,621,210
CALIFORNIA-HAWAII ELKS MAJOR PROJECT INC$1,631,420
ELKS DISASTER RELIEF PROGRAM INC$1,000,000
ELKS NATIONAL DRUG AWARENESS COMMISSION$810,441
N J STATE ELKS ASSOCIATION CHARITIES INC$782,960
FLORIDA ELKS CHARITIES INC$646,330
ELKS VETETERANS MEMORIAL RESTORATION TRUST$551,949
NEW YORK ELKS MAJOR PROJECTS INC$501,370
OHIO ELKS ASSOCIATION CHARITABLE TRUST$422,880
OREGON STATE ELKS ASSOCIATION TRUST$422,110
ARIZONA ELKS ASSOCIATION$392,630
PENNSYLVANIA ELKS MAJOR PROJECTS INC$376,290
ILLINOIS ELKS ASSOCIATION CHARITABLE TRUST$367,540
MASSACHUSETTS ELKS CHARITABLE TRUST$358,730
COLORADO ELKS ASSOCIATION CHARITIES INC$352,210

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $9.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 86% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$198M · 1522 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

1522 repeat relationships — 1410 still active in FY2025, 112 since wound down; 72 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1522

115

Total granted

$198M

$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

+24%

Still filing today

95%

82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Membership BenefitPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthOther

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

EN
Elks National Vet Serv Comm
7× · 2018–2025 · $27M · revenue +158% · 97% of their budget
NY
NEW YORK ELKS MAJOR PROJECTS INC
3× · 2023–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +9% · 40% of their budget
IE
ILLINOIS ELKS ASSOCIATION CHARITABLE TRUST
3× · 2023–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +4% · 99% of their budget

Funded once

CE
CONNECTICUT ELKS ASSOCIATION CHARITIES INC
one grant, 2023 · $198k
IE
INDIANA ELKS CHARITIES INC
one grant, 2023 · $194k · revenue -28%
PH
PACIFIC HISTORIC PARKSgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +26%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Benevolent and Protective Order of

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…

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Wooster Elks Lodge No 1346

Philanthropy

Elkton Lodge No 851 Loyal Order of Moose

The organization unites its members in the bond of fraternity,benevolence,and charity.this is accomplished through a year round schedule of social & recreational activities for members & families(590)

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Peabodylynn Lodge of Elks Bpoe of

The lodge is a fraternal organization dedicated to providing a social atmosphere and sense of belonging to members, while providing available resources to help meet pressing charitable and community needs.

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Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks #115

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.

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Bridgeport Lodge No 622 Loyal Order of Moose

This organization unites members in bonds of fraternal benevolence and charity. This is accomplished through the year round schedules of social and recreational activities of members and their families.

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Masonic Villages of the Grand Lodge

Our caring communities and services assist individuals, families and children in realizing their potential and enjoying the highest possible quality of life through the traditions of freemasonry.

Housing & Shelter

Loyal Order of Moose

Fraternalism

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Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks

The milwaukie-portland elks lodge is a fraternal social order dedicated to serving members and the greater community.

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Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks

Elks invest in their communities through programs that help children grow up healthy and drug free, meet the needs of todays veterans, and improve quality of life.

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Zion Benton Lodge No 667

Unite members in the bonds of fraternity, benevolence and charity.

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Greater Pine Island Elks Charitable

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Benevolent & Protective Order of and the most unlike its peers is Pacific Historic Parks. 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 75 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%29/1,704

the rest of the field

11%

7,683/70,655

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.

05the grantee network

1625 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

631

Early backer (in before they grew)

1599/1625

Grantees still filing

1184/1625

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$145,699,535Philanthropy$31,423,296Human Services$9,268,390Health$7,566,357Education$3,742,659Youth Development$2,124,700Membership Benefit$1,802,521

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.

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.

Elks National Veterans ServiceIL231.4× affinity200 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Elks National Veterans Service · Elks Disaster Relief Program Inc · Ndc Housing & Economic Development · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 organisation ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

29get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MINNESOTA STATE ELKS ASSOCIATION CHARITABLE TRUST.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 411769917 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MINNESOTA STATE ELKS ASSOCIATION CHARITABLE TRUST, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Elks National Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Elks National Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines