· Public charity
Wooster Elks Lodge No 1346 Benevolent & Protective Order of the Elks of the US
To invest in the community through programs that help children grow up healthy and drug-free, meet the needs of today's veterans, and improve the quality of life.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOOSTER ELKS LODGE CHARITABLE FUND | $119,100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +101% since the first grant, against -22% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2026, 2 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WEWOOSTER ELKS LODGE NO 1346 CHARITABLE FUND7× · 2020–2026 · $592k · revenue +101% · 100% of their budget
- ENELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +96%
- OEOHIO ELKS CEREBRAL PALSY BOARD2× · 2017–2018 · $18k
Funded once
- ECEMBLEM CLUB OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 374one grant, 2018 · $13k
- WEWOOSTER EMBLEM CLUBone grant, 2017 · $8k
- WCWAYNE COUNTY COMMITTEE FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN AND ADULTSone grant, 2019 · $7k · revenue -22%
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.
3 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. 3 of the 6 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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Wooster Elks Lodge No 1346 Benevolent & Protective Order of the Elks of the US funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wooster Elks Lodge No 1346 Benevolent & Protective Order of the Elks of the US. Bigger dots raise more.