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BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELK #2116

BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELK #2116 (New Jersey) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,500 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL VETERANS SERVICE COMMISSION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$306k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$18k
Net assets
$650k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Benevolent & Protective Order of Elk #2116 does

Mission

To promote the welfare and enhance our community by providing funds for various underpriveleged groups, such as veterans, special needs children, scholarships, youth programs.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Special needs children & adults- helping children and adults who were born with or have acquired disabilities, help can be in the form of special shoes, wheelchairs, or other medically necessary treatment or equipment. The lodge also subsidizes events and social functions for the local special needs residents. We are also called upon for support of the local special olympics.

  2. Community activities- the lodge provides sponsorships, donations to local youth sports teams, other local non-for-profit clubs, boy scouts, and local 501(c)(3) organizations.

  3. Feed the hungry- the lodge distributes food baskets across town to the needy for holidays or if otherwise requested. Many donations were also made to other non-for-profit groups such as local school projects, pba, volunteer fire departments, boy scouts, army of hope, etc.

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($152k) Expenses 100 ($140k) Net assets 100 ($631k)2022 Revenue 232 ($354k) Expenses 211 ($295k) Net assets 110 ($693k)2023 Revenue 219 ($333k) Expenses 285 ($398k) Net assets 111 ($702k)2024 Revenue 251 ($382k) Expenses 259 ($362k) Net assets 119 ($750k)2025 Revenue 201 ($306k) Expenses 294 ($411k) Net assets 103 ($650k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (201)Expenses (294)Net assets (103)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $860k to $1.1M (+26%).

$748k
$860k
$860k
$1.1M
$992k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$12k
’21
$59k
’22
−$65k
’23
$19k
’24
−$105k
’25
5.5
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.

20212022202320242025
Listed127111111
Joined·+2+5+4+2
No longer listed·7142
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'21
'24*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELK #2116’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

BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELK #2116 leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% 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

57% 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 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELK #2116.

57%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELK #2116 draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 1 state in all.

IL

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 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELK #2116

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.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
64%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELK #2116?
BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELK #2116 (New Jersey) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,500 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL VETERANS SERVICE COMMISSION ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELK #2116 have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $17,500 in grants to BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELK #2116.
Who is the largest funder of BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELK #2116?
ELKS NATIONAL VETERANS SERVICE COMMISSION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELK #2116 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), 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