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Merced Lodge No 1240 Bpo Elks
The mission of the elks is to help build stronger communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $58,483 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $156,645 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $98,162 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHEMPI | $30,500 |
| UPCOUNTRYSTRONGORG | $11,983 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $10,000 |
| CASA OF MERCED COUNTY | $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 (FY18–24, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- CECALIFORNIA-HAWAII ELKS MAJOR PROJECT INC6× · 2018–2024 · $77k · revenue -26%
- CTCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $18k · revenue +73%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MERCED COUNTY2× · 2023–2024 · $16k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- MCMERCED COUNTY SHERIFFS K9 UNIT INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $17k · revenue +41%
- CFCHALLENGED FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $14k · revenue +46%
- ENELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue +96%
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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Mccf resources and assists underserved children, families, and community members experiencing misfortune due to environmental disasters and economic inequality
The council coordinated the efforts of affiliated local unions and assisted their organizations work, bettering the working conditions of their members.
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To provide mental health services to merced county and beyond.
Assure community services to children
Provide search and rescue operationsprovide horse and riders for charitiable parades
Operation of a foster family care agency
Caring for homeless animals, and finding homes for them through pet adoptions.
Operation of a residential camp for needy youngsters on a no charge basis
To advocate, educate, and collaborate on behalf of the local child support agencies to advance the child support program as a safety net service leading to family financial stability.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California-Hawaii Elks Major Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Upcountry Strong Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 10 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 CALIFORNIA-HAWAII ELKS MAJOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MERCED COUNTY SHERIFFS K9 UNIT INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MERCED COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGED FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds UPCOUNTRY STRONG INC ↗
- Who funds ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARIPOSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Merced County ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Merced Lodge No 1240 Bpo Elks 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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