Illinois · Nonprofit
BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $36,000 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($36,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $135k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $36k
- Net assets
- $824k
What Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks of the USA does
Mission
Providing benefits to the community, by means of the operation of a benevolent fraternal organization, through the granting of scholarships, providing funding for a crippled children fund, sponsoring youth activities, and providing opportunities for members to donate their time and service to benevolent community activities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The conducting of lodge activities which provide the structure and administration to enable the benevolent organization to carry out its mission. The activities include sponsoring dinners for armed services veterans, providing a variety of personal items to needy veterans, organizing visitations to veterans, organizing visitations to local nursing homes to benefit the elderly, contributing to the Elks National Foundation, sponsoring a Hoop Shoot for local youths, participating in the local Shriners' parade, and funding drug awareness publications
Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $512k to $675k (+32%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA’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 & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
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.
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Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA: 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 & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA?
- BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $36,000 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($36,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $36,000 in grants to BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA?
- ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $36,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA 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 2021–2025), 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