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BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA

BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,986 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($37,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$554k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$44k
Net assets
$1.0M
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks of the USA does

Mission

To carry on fraternal activities under the lodge system for benevolent and charitable purposes.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To carry on fraternal activities under the lodge system for benevolent and charitable purposes

    $313,856 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $313,856.

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 ($317k) Expenses 100 ($257k) Net assets 100 ($754k)2019 Revenue 72 ($227k) Expenses 84 ($216k) Net assets 98 ($742k)2020 Revenue 149 ($471k) Expenses 152 ($389k) Net assets 100 ($751k)2021 Revenue 121 ($385k) Expenses 142 ($364k) Net assets 112 ($843k)2022 Revenue 181 ($574k) Expenses 177 ($455k) Net assets 122 ($920k)2023 Revenue 194 ($615k) Expenses 222 ($571k) Net assets 129 ($975k)2024 Revenue 195 ($619k) Expenses 215 ($551k) Net assets 144 ($1.1M)2025 Revenue 175 ($554k) Expenses 235 ($605k) Net assets 139 ($1.0M)
'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (175)Expenses (235)Net assets (139)

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 $948k to $1.1M (+11%).

$817k
$813k
$903k
$948k
$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.2M
$1.2M
'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$60k
’18
$11k
’19
$82k
’20
$21k
’21
$119k
’22
$44k
’23
$68k
’24
−$51k
’25
8.5
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.

'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed1421111111111111
Joined·+8+3+3+3+4+4+3
No longer listed·11333443
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'23
'24*
'25*
'26*
total
funders
1
1
2
1

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.

How concentrated its funding is

BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% 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

85%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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 OF THE USA draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, 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 & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA

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 Colorado

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

50% of spending goes to programs.

Program 50%Management 50%Fundraising 0%

Governance

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

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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 (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,986 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($37,500). 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 2 organizations giving $43,986 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 $37,500 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 Colorado. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), 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