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BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 1944

BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 1944 (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $31,500 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($31,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$223k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$32k
Net assets
$1.2M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks 1944 does

Mission

Fraternal order operating under the lodge system

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Program

  1. Fraternal order operating under the lodge system

    $177,424 spent$121,572 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $177,424.

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 ($415k) Expenses 100 ($260k) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2018 Revenue 67 ($278k) Expenses 100 ($258k) Net assets 102 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 82 ($339k) Expenses 115 ($297k) Net assets 105 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 53 ($220k) Expenses 116 ($301k) Net assets 98 ($1.2M)2021 Revenue 98 ($406k) Expenses 86 ($224k) Net assets 114 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 64 ($265k) Expenses 109 ($283k) Net assets 112 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 72 ($299k) Expenses 153 ($396k) Net assets 104 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 91 ($379k) Expenses 147 ($382k) Net assets 104 ($1.2M)2025 Revenue 70 ($291k) Expenses 120 ($312k) Net assets 102 ($1.2M)2026 Revenue 54 ($223k) Expenses 108 ($280k) Net assets 97 ($1.2M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25'26
Revenue (54)Expenses (108)Net assets (97)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.2M to $1.4M (+15%).

$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.3M
$1.2M
$1.4M
$1.4M
$1.3M
$1.3M
$1.3M
$1.2M
'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.

$155k
’17
$19k
’18
$42k
’19
−$81k
’20
$182k
’21
−$18k
’22
−$98k
’23
−$3k
’24
−$21k
’25
−$58k
’26
4.1
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
Listed1212149999999
Joined·+5+2+6+1+6+0+2+1+0
No longer listed·5011160210
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

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

From the IRS filings of BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 1944’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 1944 draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, 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 1944

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 Tennessee

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

63% of spending goes to programs.

Program 63%Management 37%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 1944: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 1944?
BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 1944 (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $31,500 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($31,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 1944 have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $31,500 in grants to BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 1944, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 1944?
ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $31,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 1944 find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 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