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Merced Lodge No 1240 Bpo Elks

The mission of the elks is to help build stronger communities.

$169k
Granted FY2026still arriving
2
Grants FY2026still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$95kCrime & Legal$23kYouth Development$16kHuman Services$14kFood & Nutrition$12kPhilanthropy$9kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kOther$0
02FY2026 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $35,958, the rows itemized in this filing. The $168,740 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $132,782 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
$29,700
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHEMPI$29,700
ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION$6,258
02The need
03

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 (FY18–26, $107k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CHEMPI: $31k → 19%CHEMPI: $30k → 19%CHEMPI: $15k → 19%CHEA MAJOR PROJECTS: $13k → 19%CHEA MAJOR PROJECTS: $11k → 19%CHEA MAJOR PROJECTS: $7k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$156k · 4 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2026, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
5

Total granted

$156k
$57k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
+41%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’26
Crime & LegalHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • CT
    CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $18k · revenue +73%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MERCED COUNTY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $16k · revenue +2%
  • EN
    ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2026 · $15k · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • MC
    MERCED COUNTY SHERIFFS K9 UNIT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $17k · revenue +41%
  • CF
    CHALLENGED FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $14k · revenue +46%
  • US
    UPCOUNTRY STRONG INC
    one grant, 2024 · $12k · 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.

1
Merced County Deputy Sheriff's Associati

The merced county deputy sheriff's association is dedicated to supporting the sworn and non-sworn employees of the merced county sheriff's deparment.

Employment
2
Merced County Sheriffs Posse

Provide search and rescue operationsprovide horse and riders for charitiable parades

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3
Ace Overcomers of Merced County

To provide mental health services to merced county and beyond.

Human Services
4
California State Firefighters Association

We are dedicated to ensuring our members a strong and united voice in the evolution of the Fire Service through unity in leadership political action education and quality member services.

Community Improvement
5
Central Valley Foster Care Inc

Operation of a foster family care agency

Human Services
6
Mendocino Coast Childrens Fund

Mccf resources and assists underserved children, families, and community members experiencing misfortune due to environmental disasters and economic inequality

Human Services
7
Kern County Network for Children

Assure community services to children

Human Services
8
California State Council of Service Employees

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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9
Child Family and Community Services Inc

Public benefit agency for the educationally and economically disadvantaged children and families in southern alameda county.

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10
Mercedmariposa Teachers Uniserv Council

Provide leadership training to the officers of participating chapters.

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11
Chico Elks Lodge 423

Operates under the lodge system for the exclusive benefit of its members

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12
Child Support Directors Association

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.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California-Hawaii Elks Major Project Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CALIFORNIA-HAWAII ELKS MAJOR PROJECT INC: $107,071 · Human ServicesCALIFORNIA-HAWAII ELKS MAJOR PROJECT INCMERCED COUNTY SHERIFFS K9 UNIT INC: $16,910 · Crime & LegalMERCED COUN…Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Merced County: $6,000 · Crime & LegalCourt Appoi…CHALLENGED FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $14,175 · OtherCHALLENGED …Individual grant recipient: $7,700 · OtherIndividual …CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $17,500 · HealthCHILDREN'…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MERCED COUNTY: $16,000 · Youth DevelopmentELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $15,052 · PhilanthropyUPCOUNTRY STRONG INC: $11,983 · Food & NutritionMARIPOSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6,133 · Education
Human Services$107,071Crime & Legal$22,910Other$21,875Health$17,500Youth Development$16,000Philanthropy$15,052Food & Nutrition$11,983Education$6,133

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCALIFORNIA-HAWAII ELKS MAJOR PROJECT INC: $107,071 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MERCED COUNTY: $16,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $15,052 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHALLENGED FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $14,175 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetUPCOUNTRY STRONG INC: $11,983 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMARIPOSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6,133 over 1y, 21% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Merced County: $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Merced Lodge No 1240 Bpo Elks funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Merced Lodge No 1240 Bpo Elks. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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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    Find your warmest path to Merced Lodge No 1240 Bpo Elks through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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