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BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS SANTA MONICA 906

BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS SANTA MONICA 906 (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,500 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL VETERANS SERVICE COMMISSION ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$205k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$95k
Net assets
$2.5M
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%
01What it does

What Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Santa Monica 906 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

  1. Operates under the lodge system for the exclusive benefit of the members.

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($146k) Expenses 100 ($187k) Net assets 100 ($3.0M)2018 Revenue 122 ($178k) Expenses 110 ($205k) Net assets 99 ($2.9M)2019 Revenue 98 ($143k) Expenses 132 ($247k) Net assets 95 ($2.8M)2020 Revenue 119 ($175k) Expenses 123 ($230k) Net assets 91 ($2.7M)2021 Revenue 74 ($108k) Expenses 131 ($244k) Net assets 96 ($2.9M)2022 Revenue 39 ($57k) Expenses 105 ($196k) Net assets 90 ($2.7M)2023 Revenue 76 ($112k) Expenses 116 ($217k) Net assets 83 ($2.5M)2024 Revenue 123 ($180k) Expenses 155 ($289k) Net assets 83 ($2.5M)2025 Revenue 140 ($205k) Expenses 121 ($226k) Net assets 83 ($2.5M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (140)Expenses (121)Net assets (83)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $2.7M to $2.5M (−8%).

$3.0M
$3.0M
$2.8M
$2.7M
$2.9M
$2.7M
$2.5M
$2.5M
$2.5M
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 9 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$40k
’17
−$27k
’18
−$104k
’19
−$55k
’20
−$136k
’21
−$140k
’22
−$105k
’23
−$109k
’24
−$21k
’25
6.1
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed1111111163999
Joined·+4+7+0+0+0+6+7+0
No longer listed·47053070
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $22k.

Funder
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
'26*
total
funders
1
1
2
2
2
1

From the IRS filings of BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS SANTA MONICA 906’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 SANTA MONICA 906 leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% 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

53% 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 SANTA MONICA 906.

53%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 55% — diversifying over time.

“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 AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS SANTA MONICA 906 draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.

IL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

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 SANTA MONICA 906

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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

9
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

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS SANTA MONICA 906?
BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS SANTA MONICA 906 (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,500 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL VETERANS SERVICE COMMISSION ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS SANTA MONICA 906 have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $94,500 in grants to BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS SANTA MONICA 906, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS SANTA MONICA 906?
ELKS NATIONAL VETERANS SERVICE COMMISSION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS SANTA MONICA 906 find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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