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BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 2520

BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 2520 (Florida) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $27,000 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($27,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$641k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$27k
Net assets
$261k
1/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks 2520 does

Mission

Fraternal organization which was founded on the principles of charity, justice, brotherly love, fidelity, and the belief in god.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Program

  1. Operated under the lodge system for the exclusive benefit of its members.

The program described on its FY2024 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 ($235k) Expenses 100 ($243k) Net assets 100 ($292k)2018 Revenue 89 ($209k) Expenses 128 ($312k) Net assets 66 ($194k)2019 Revenue 121 ($284k) Expenses 114 ($278k) Net assets 98 ($286k)2020 Revenue 145 ($340k) Expenses 112 ($273k) Net assets 132 ($383k)2021 Revenue 65 ($154k) Expenses 62 ($151k) Net assets 133 ($386k)2022 Revenue 132 ($311k) Expenses 122 ($297k) Net assets 128 ($374k)2023 Revenue 225 ($529k) Expenses 220 ($533k) Net assets 125 ($365k)2024 Revenue 368 ($865k) Expenses 371 ($901k) Net assets 114 ($332k)2025 Revenue 158 ($371k) Expenses 176 ($428k) Net assets 94 ($275k)2026 Revenue 272 ($641k) Expenses 277 ($672k) Net assets 89 ($261k)
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Revenue (272)Expenses (277)Net assets (89)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $376k to $267k (−29%).

$376k
$267k
$328k
$426k
$407k
$388k
$385k
$411k
$362k
$328k
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2024 0% · 2025 5% · 2026 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

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

−$8k
’17
−$103k
’18
$7k
’19
$67k
’20
$3k
’21
$14k
’22
−$4k
’23
−$36k
’24
−$57k
’25
−$31k
’26
0.5
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.

Board chair

Charles Smith

Chair for th

As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.

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Joined·+5+0+6+3+8+6+3+5+3
No longer listed·506386353
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

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

From the IRS filings of BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 2520’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 2520 draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, 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 2520

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 Florida

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 18%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 2520: 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 2520?
BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 2520 (Florida) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $27,000 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($27,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 2520 have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $27,000 in grants to BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 2520, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 2520?
ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $27,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 2520 find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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