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BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 1696

BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 1696 (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12,000 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($12,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$8k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$12k
Net assets
$25k
1/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks 1696 does

Mission

Provide benevolent services to the community

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Lodge building used as town meeting place; only building available in this area for this purpose

  2. Financially supoort youth activities - scholarships, hoop shoot, boy scouts, brotherly love program

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

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 ($31k) Expenses 100 ($22k) Net assets 100 ($45k)2018 Revenue 126 ($39k) Expenses 211 ($47k) Net assets 82 ($37k)2019 Revenue 378 ($117k) Expenses 531 ($118k) Net assets 79 ($36k)2020 Revenue 298 ($92k) Expenses 423 ($94k) Net assets 74 ($34k)2021 Revenue 125 ($38k) Expenses 154 ($34k) Net assets 84 ($38k)2022 Revenue 129 ($40k) Expenses 122 ($27k) Net assets 112 ($51k)2023 Revenue 101 ($31k) Expenses 118 ($26k) Net assets 118 ($53k)2024 Revenue 73 ($23k) Expenses 186 ($41k) Net assets 77 ($35k)2025 Revenue 90 ($28k) Expenses 186 ($41k) Net assets 47 ($21k)2026 Revenue 25 ($8k) Expenses 20 ($4k) Net assets 54 ($25k)
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Revenue (25)Expenses (20)Net assets (54)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $39k to $21k (−46%).

$60k
$52k
$50k
$48k
$38k
$51k
$53k
$39k
$21k
$25k
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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. 5 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.

$9k
’17
−$8k
’18
−$1k
’19
−$2k
’20
$4k
’21
$13k
’22
$5k
’23
−$19k
’24
−$14k
’25
$3k
’26

Leadership and staff

Board chair

Gordon Sirrine

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 1696’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.

Where its funders are

BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 1696 draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, 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 AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 1696

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 Montana

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 1696?
BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 1696 (Montana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12,000 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($12,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 1696 have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $12,000 in grants to BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 1696, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 1696?
ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $12,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 1696 find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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 1 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