How much does Elks of Los Angeles Foundation Main give?

Elks of Los Angeles Foundation Main reported 29 grants totaling $389,327 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Elks of Los Angeles Foundation Main fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (35%), Health (22%), Youth Development (17%).

Who are Elks of Los Angeles Foundation Main's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Los Angeles Jewish Home for the Aging ($91k), Union Rescue Mission ($79k), Ettie Lee Homes Inc dba Ettie Lee Youth and Family Services ($79k).

Does Elks of Los Angeles Foundation Main fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Elks of Los Angeles Foundation Main accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Elks of Los Angeles Foundation Main?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation, The Ralph M Parsons Foundation.

Where is Elks of Los Angeles Foundation Main based?

Elks of Los Angeles Foundation Main is based in MO.

Elks of Los Angeles Foundation Main

Elks of Los Angeles Foundation Main at a glance

· Private foundation

Elks of Los Angeles Foundation Main

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$389k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$26k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$820kHealth$511kYouth Development$393kHousing & Shelter$157kReligion$121kEducation$85kCrime & Legal$79kFood & Nutrition$79kOther$0

02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$12,990

Median grant

States reached

$4.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
LOS ANGELES JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGING	$25,607
ETTIE LEE YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES	$12,990
MOMENTUM AGENCIES	$12,990
WEST VALLEY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB	$12,990
ST ANNES FAMILY SERVICES	$12,990
PACIFIC CLINICS	$12,990
TAKING THE REINS	$12,990
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HOLLYWOOD	$12,990
THE UCLA FOUNDATION	$12,990
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES SO CAL	$12,990
CALIFORNIA-HAWAII ELKS MAJOR PROJECT INC	$12,990
ALL PEOPLES COMMUNITY CENTER	$12,990
MIDNIGHT MISSION	$12,990
BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC	$12,990
LEGAL AID FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES	$12,990

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $986k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

How this is measured

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.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.1M · 34 repeat orgs$112k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.1M

$73k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%

Still filing today

82%

14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

UR
UNION RESCUE MISSION
8× · 2018–2025 · $79k · revenue +155%
EL
Ettie Lee Homes Inc dba Ettie Lee Youth and Family Services
8× · 2018–2025 · $79k · revenue +3%
PL
Penny Lane Centers
8× · 2018–2025 · $79k · revenue +10%

Funded once

Y
YMCA
one grant, 2023 · $13k
RM
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES
one grant, 2023 · $13k
JB
JEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES
one grant, 2024 · $13k · revenue 0%

How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.

Health

Wellnest Emotional Health & Wellness

Through a holistic approach to emotional well-being, Wellnest offers hope, healing, and opportunity to the children, young adults, families, and communities we serve. Our commitment remains steadfast as we enter our second century of…

Human Services

South Central Los Angeles Regional Center for Dev Disabled Persons Inc

South central los angeles regional center, (sclarc), believes special needs deserve special attention. we are committed to the provision of culturally sensitive services which enhance the inherent strengths of the family and enable…

Human Services

Wise and Healthy Aging

The organization is a multi-service, 501c(3) not-for-profit, social services organization serving seniors throughout los angeles and san bernardio counties, with emphasis on low-income and/or underserved individuals. the organization…

Health

Allies for Every Child Inc

All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)

Human Services

Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd

Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…

Health

Bayfront Youth and Family Services Inc

Bayfront Youth & Family Services is a quality provider of behavioral and mental health treatment services for children, adolescents, and their caregivers. Our mission is to provide a comprehensive support system that promotes safe and…

Health

Young Women's Christian Association of Greater Los Angeles

Dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.

Human Services

Boys Republic

Boys Republic provides both residential and non-residential youth services to disadvantaged, at-risk young people throughout California. It operates six facilities, all in Southern California: a 200 acre residential campus, school, and…

Human Services

Alta California Regional Center Inc

The center provides diagnostic evaluations, client coordination and lifelong planning of services for persons with developmental disabilities and their families in accordance with the lanterman developmental disabilities act.

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Onegeneration

To enrich the lives of seniors, children and their families, throughout our diverse communities. to promote healthy aging and provide social services to vulnerable and impoverished seniors.

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Children's Hospital Los Angeles Medical Group

To be the preeminent pediatric, multispecialty medical group in the nation, dedicated to providing the highest quality medical care to infants, children and adolescents; and supporting the finest teaching and research endeavors of our…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Club of Hollywood Inc; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 45 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

30/30

Grantees still filing

20/30

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Human Services$985,671Other$727,077Health$258,188Community Improvement$91,152Youth Development$91,152Education$84,785Crime & Legal$78,535

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

California Community FoundationCA32.4× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · S Mark Taper Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Lon V Smith Foundation · Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation · Shelter Partnership Inc · Variety - the Childrens Charity of Southern California Tent 25

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Elks of Los Angeles Foundation Main funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elks of Los Angeles Foundation Main. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home