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21 GREATER ESSEX ELKS LODGE

21 GREATER ESSEX ELKS LODGE (New Jersey) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,500 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL VETERANS SERVICE COMMISSION ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$275k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$76k
Net assets
$3.0M
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 86%
01What it does

What 21 Greater Essex Elks Lodge does

Mission

Charitable and humanitarian endevors including special needs children programs, veterans, drug awareness, youth activities and other civic involvement

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Program

  1. Supported special needs children, veterens programs and youth programs

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($98k) Expenses 100 ($70k) Net assets 100 ($825k)2018 Revenue 164 ($160k) Expenses 85 ($59k) Net assets 112 ($925k)2019 Revenue 23 ($22k) Expenses 81 ($56k) Net assets 109 ($898k)2020 Revenue 47 ($46k) Expenses 72 ($50k) Net assets 102 ($844k)2021 Revenue 20 ($20k) Expenses 94 ($66k) Net assets 108 ($893k)2022 Revenue 2242 ($2.2M) Expenses 185 ($129k) Net assets 323 ($2.7M)2023 Revenue 22 ($22k) Expenses 241 ($168k) Net assets 356 ($2.9M)2024 Revenue 42 ($41k) Expenses 328 ($229k) Net assets 363 ($3.0M)2025 Revenue 130 ($128k) Expenses 386 ($269k) Net assets 349 ($2.9M)2026 Revenue 281 ($275k) Expenses 292 ($203k) Net assets 364 ($3.0M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25'26
Revenue (281)Expenses (292)Net assets (364)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $893k to $2.7M (+199%).

$825k
$925k
$898k
$844k
$893k
$2.7M
$2.9M
$3.0M
$2.9M
$3.0M
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25'26
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.

$28k
’17
$101k
’18
−$34k
’19
−$5k
’20
−$46k
’21
$2.1M
’22
−$147k
’23
−$188k
’24
−$141k
’25
$72k
’26
123
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25'26
Listed5121111998888
Joined·+7+0+0+6+0+2+0+0+0
No longer listed·010803000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $19k.

Funder
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
'26*
total
funders
1
2
2
2
1

From the IRS filings of 21 GREATER ESSEX ELKS LODGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

21 GREATER ESSEX ELKS LODGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

53% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund 21 GREATER ESSEX ELKS LODGE.

53%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 54% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

21 GREATER ESSEX ELKS LODGE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 1 state in all.

IL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’22
’23
New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like 21 GREATER ESSEX ELKS LODGE

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In New Jersey

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Governance

12
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds 21 GREATER ESSEX ELKS LODGE?
21 GREATER ESSEX ELKS LODGE (New Jersey) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,500 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL VETERANS SERVICE COMMISSION ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does 21 GREATER ESSEX ELKS LODGE have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $75,500 in grants to 21 GREATER ESSEX ELKS LODGE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of 21 GREATER ESSEX ELKS LODGE?
ELKS NATIONAL VETERANS SERVICE COMMISSION is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like 21 GREATER ESSEX ELKS LODGE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing