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BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS NASHVILLE - FRANKLIN LODGE NO 72
BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS NASHVILLE - FRANKLIN LODGE NO 72 (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,162 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL VETERANS SERVICE COMMISSION ($40,662). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $496k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $72k
- Net assets
- $6.1M
What Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks Nashville - Franklin Lodge No 72 does
Mission
To inculcate the principles of charity, justice, brotherly love and fidelity; to recognize a belief in god, to promote the welfare and enhance the happiness of its members; to quicken the spirit of american patriotism; to cultivate good fellowship; to perpetuate itself as a fraternal organization, and to provide for its government, the benevolent and protective order of elks of the united states of america will serve the people and communities through benevolent programs, demonstrating that "elks care and elks share."
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To inculcate the principles of charity, justice, brotherly love and fidelity; to recognize a belief in god, to promote the welfare and enhance the happiness of its members; to quicken the spirit of american patriotism; to cultivate good fellowship; to perpetuate itself as a fraternal organization, and to provide for its government, the benevolent and protective order of elks of the united states of america will serve the people and communities through benevolent programs, demonstrating that "elks care and elks share."as an example of the benevolence to the community, the elks' host a christmas party for underpriviledged children annually. In addition, they donate to the elks national foundation and state benefit trust programs. There are several other community outreach programs to serve the community through scholarships and other youth and family programs.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
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 2020 to 2021, from $6.0M to $7.0M (+17%).
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: 2022 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $23k → $9k.
From the IRS filings of BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS NASHVILLE - FRANKLIN LODGE NO 72’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 & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS NASHVILLE - FRANKLIN LODGE NO 72 leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
56% 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 & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS NASHVILLE - FRANKLIN LODGE NO 72.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS NASHVILLE - FRANKLIN LODGE NO 72 draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Organizations like BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS NASHVILLE - FRANKLIN LODGE NO 72
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS NASHVILLE - FRANKLIN LODGE NO 72?
- BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS NASHVILLE - FRANKLIN LODGE NO 72 (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,162 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL VETERANS SERVICE COMMISSION ($40,662). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS NASHVILLE - FRANKLIN LODGE NO 72 have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $72,162 in grants to BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS NASHVILLE - FRANKLIN LODGE NO 72, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS NASHVILLE - FRANKLIN LODGE NO 72?
- ELKS NATIONAL VETERANS SERVICE COMMISSION is the largest funder on record, with $40,662 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS NASHVILLE - FRANKLIN LODGE NO 72 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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