· Private foundation
Elks Park Scholarship & Charity Fun
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERCED ELKS BPO 1240 - VARIOUS | $6,754 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| EL CAPITAN HIGH SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| LOVE INC | $2,450 |
| MERCED COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH | $2,000 |
| MERCED COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION | $1,950 |
| BOXING ACADEMY CORPORATION | $1,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,500 |
| CW PARKER MINISTRIES | $1,500 |
| 460 SQUAD CLUB | $1,250 |
| HOOVER BANK BOOSTERS | $1,250 |
| ALISHA ANN RUCH BURN FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| MERCED YOUTH BASEBALL INC | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 18 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VCVALLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL2× · 2021–2022 · $26k · revenue +42%
- MSMC SWAIN SOCCER LEAGUE4× · 2021–2024 · $5k · revenue +87%
- ALATWATER LITTLE LEAGUE2× · 2021–2023 · $5k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- MSMERCED SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF NORTHERN CAone grant, 2024 · $5k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE MERCED COUNTY LIBRARYone grant, 2022 · $5k
- CFCHALLENGED FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERone grant, 2024 · $5k · 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.
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.
Youth sports
Provide financial support to mhs football
Monterey County Soccer Club is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the positive development of our youth through their participation in a safe health and affordable soccer program that is fun and rewarding for who participate
Organized youth soccer
The mill valley soccer club is dedicated to player development at all levels and to providing opportunities to every player to realize their full potential
The kiwanis club of greater merced has served merced county since 1956, providing community service, youth programs, scholarships, and family-oriented recreational opportunities through projects such as kiwanis kiddieland.
California Magic SC is a community-based club whose mission is to educate, inspire,and empower youth in a positive way through the beautiful game of soccer.While this small and select club is committed to high achievement in soccer,the…
It is the mission of srcysc to provide the youth of riverside county with equal opportunities for those of all genders and ages to engage and take active part in personal fitness, teamwork, athletic competition and self esteem building…
Provide sports and supervised activities that encourage sportsmanship, goodwill and friendship.
Soccer activities soccer club/soccer games/soccer practices/soccer tournaments.
Youth soccer
To promote hard work, integrity, and trust to the youth of central california through our sports and fitness programs.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 82 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds VALLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Merced County ↗
- Who funds MC SWAIN SOCCER LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds ATWATER LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGED FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALISA ANN RUCH BURN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Merced College Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MERCED COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: United Way of Merced County · Stewart Family Foundation · The California Endowment · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Elks Park Scholarship & Charity Fun funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elks Park Scholarship & Charity Fun. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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