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California · Public charity

Palo Alto Lodge No 1471 Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks

A fraternal organization organized under the lodge system to cultivate fellowship among its members and to serve the community.

$37k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2026
3
Organizations funded FY2025
0%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$11,072
Largest grant, FY2026
$16,457
Organizations funded a year
2 to 3
FY2018 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
1
Total assets, FY2026
$24M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 0% of the organizations Palo Alto Lodge No 1471 Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving3$37k0%
FY20253$32k0%
FY20242$33k0%
FY20232$37k0%
FY20222$15k0%
FY20202$35k0%
FY20192$43k0%
FY20183$53k0%
58% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$134kEducation$35kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2026.

CALIF-HAWAII ELKS ASSOCIATION$16,457
Individual grant recipient$11,072
VARIOUS QUALIFYING STUDENTS$9,500

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About Palo Alto Lodge No 1471 Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks

How much does Palo Alto Lodge No 1471 Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks give?
Palo Alto Lodge No 1471 Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks reported 3 grants totaling $37,029 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 3 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2025.
What does Palo Alto Lodge No 1471 Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (47%), Education (12%).
Does Palo Alto Lodge No 1471 Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Palo Alto Lodge No 1471 Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks based?
Palo Alto Lodge No 1471 Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks is based in CA.

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 3 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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