· Public charity
Kent Island Elks Lodge #2576
KENT ISLAND ELKS LODGE #2576 is a subordinate lodge of the benevolent and protective order of the elks of the usa.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $62,635 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $143,425 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $80,790 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 · FY2026
- Under $10k6 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $23k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MD DEL DC ELKS ASSOC INC | $22,775 |
| KENT ISLAND HIGH SCHOOL | $9,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE CHARITIES | $6,600 |
| UNITED COMMUNITIES VFD | $6,260 |
| WILLIAM J JERNICK MEMORIAL FUND | $6,000 |
| ELKS NATIONAL VETERANS SERVICE COMMISSION | $6,000 |
| ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–26, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +84% since the first grant, against +83% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2026, 1 since wound down.
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 FY2026, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MDMaryland Delaware and District of Columbia Elks Assoc10× · 2017–2026 · $95k · revenue +44%
- ENELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2026 · $33k · revenue +96%
- ENELKS NATIONAL VETERANS SERVICE COMMISSION4× · 2017–2026 · $21k · revenue +122%
Funded once
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA TROOP 496one grant, 2025 · $8k
- KIKENT ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INCone grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +18%
- HMHAVEN MINISTRIES INCgraduated2× · 2021–2024 · $6k · revenue +83%
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 provide emergency medical services to the citizens of Elkton, McGaheysville and Massanutten Village and the surrounding areas of Rockingham County. These services are provided by an all volunteer agency who responded to more than 3,000…
Provide volunteer fire and emergency rescue services to the general public of the city of virginia beach, virginia.
The mission of essex volunteer fire company, inc. is to provide emergency services to citizens of baltimore county, maryland in their time of need. we accomplish this through education, prevention and protection of life and property with…
The organization is a volunteer fire department serving the town of kilmarnock, va and surrounding areas.
Fire fighting
To provide assistance and fundraising efforts for the emergency fire fighting and medical care for the county of king william in virginia.
Provide fire protection for the rural community of keeling, va
Provide fire and rescue services in the new market, md area
Provide fire protection for the residents of the village and town of fort ann.
To provide firefighting and rescue services to residents and businesses of selected areas of campbell county, virginia.
Fire and rescue services
The fire company provides fire, rescue, and medical service for a community of approx. 3,450 homes in baltimore county, md.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elks National Veterans Service Commission and the most unlike its peers is William J Jernick Memorial Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 11 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 Maryland Delaware and District of Columbia Elks Assoc ↗
- Who funds ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds William J Jernick Memorial Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds ELKS NATIONAL VETERANS SERVICE COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITIES VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds QUEEN ANNES ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds KENT ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds HAVEN MINISTRIES INC ↗
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.
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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 Kent Island Elks Lodge #2576 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.