Skip to content

Illinois · Nonprofit

BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS LODGE NO 1234 BENTON

BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS LODGE NO 1234 BENTON (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $17,500 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($17,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$273k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$18k
Net assets
$225k
1/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Lodge No 1234 Benton does

Mission

To carry on the fraternal activities under the lodge system the net income which is used exclusively for benevolent and charitable purposes.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Program

  1. To carry on the fraternal activities under the lodge system the net income of which is used exclusively for benevolent and charitable purposes.

    $219,567 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $219,567.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($137k) Expenses 100 ($141k) Net assets 100 ($138k)2019 Revenue 110 ($152k) Expenses 105 ($148k) Net assets 103 ($142k)2021 Revenue 87 ($119k) Expenses 82 ($115k) Net assets 92 ($127k)2022 Revenue 133 ($183k) Expenses 111 ($157k) Net assets 111 ($153k)2023 Revenue 126 ($173k) Expenses 113 ($160k) Net assets 120 ($166k)2024 Revenue 96 ($131k) Expenses 108 ($153k) Net assets 105 ($145k)2025 Revenue 169 ($232k) Expenses 140 ($197k) Net assets 130 ($179k)2026 Revenue 198 ($273k) Expenses 170 ($239k) Net assets 163 ($225k)
'18'19'21'22'23'24'25'26
Revenue (198)Expenses (170)Net assets (163)

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 $267k to $242k (−10%).

$278k
$285k
$256k
$274k
$267k
$242k
$266k
$245k
'18'19'21'22'23'24'25'26
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.

2018
2019
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$4k
’18
$4k
’19
$4k
’21
$26k
’22
$13k
’23
−$22k
’24
$34k
’25
$33k
’26
3.7
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.

2018201920222023202420252026
Listed5589101113
Joined·+2·+3+4+2+2
No longer listed·2·2310
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'25*
'26*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS LODGE NO 1234 BENTON’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

100% of BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS LODGE NO 1234 BENTON's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

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 LODGE NO 1234 BENTON

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS LODGE NO 1234 BENTON: 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.

A paid feature, included from the $75 plan up. Sign in to download.

Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS LODGE NO 1234 BENTON?
BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS LODGE NO 1234 BENTON (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $17,500 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($17,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS LODGE NO 1234 BENTON have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $17,500 in grants to BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS LODGE NO 1234 BENTON, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS LODGE NO 1234 BENTON?
ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $17,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS LODGE NO 1234 BENTON 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2018–2026), 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