Illinois · Nonprofit
BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS
BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $137,110 to it, the largest being BPOE CARLSBAD ELKS LODGE #1558 ($55,805). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $57M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $137k
- Net assets
- $87M
What Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks does
Mission
Fraternal organization that coordinates various programs for state associations and subordinate lodges of the order of elks.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization provides property, crime, and boiler and machinery loss protection coverage for the organization, affiliated organizations, state associations and approximately 2,000 lodges consisting of approximately 800,000 members. The program is funded through assessment to the covered organization. Costs in excess of the assessments is borne by the organization and reimbursed through future assessments.
$24,301,601 spent$18,813,276 earned by the program50% of program spendingThe organization purchases excess general liability insurance coverage for organization, affiliated organizations, state associations and approximately 2,000 lodges consisting of approximately 800,000 members. The general liability program, including premium costs for the stop loss and coverage policies, is funded through membership dues and assessments.
$16,620,616 spent$18,365,588 earned by the program34% of program spendingThe organization publishes the elks magazine. The magazine, which is produced ten times annually, is circulated to the members of the order to promote and report on the activities of the organization.
$5,594,978 spent$4,564,755 earned by the program12% of program spendingOther programs including the annual convention attended by members.
$1,993,671 spent$5,872,742 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $48,510,866.
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.
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 $115M to $132M (+15%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2023 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $20k → $24k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $100k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Elks National Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS raised.
From the IRS filings of BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS’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 AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
96% 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 AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 51% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 40% · 2023 76% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
17% of BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 25% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $56k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Organizations like BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- Elks National Foundation Inc · exempt
- Elks Veterans Memorial Restoration Trust · exempt
- Elks National Veterans Service Comm · exempt
- Elks Disaster Relief Program Inc · exempt
- Elks National Home and Retirement Center · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS?
- BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $137,110 to it, the largest being BPOE CARLSBAD ELKS LODGE #1558 ($55,805). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $137,110 in grants to BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS?
- BPOE CARLSBAD ELKS LODGE #1558 is the largest funder on record, with $55,805 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 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