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Benevolent & Prot Order of Elks 916

Benevolent & Prot Order of Elks 916 (Vermont) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $37,500 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($37,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$330k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$38k
Net assets
$27k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Benevolent & Prot Order of Elks 916 does

Mission

To inculate 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 fellowhsip; to perpetuate itself as 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 FY2026 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Lodge provides space, food and support for charitable organizations in addition to its members. The Lodge entertained 38 Elk functions for various charities and public services. The Lodge facilities were also donated for use for another 12 charitable functions.

    $386,872 spent$57,635 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $386,872.

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 ($391k) Expenses 100 ($465k) Net assets 100 ($28k)2018 Revenue 99 ($388k) Expenses 83 ($387k) Net assets 103 ($29k)2021 Revenue 64 ($251k) Expenses 46 ($214k) Net assets 197 ($55k)2022 Revenue 69 ($270k) Expenses 78 ($363k) Net assets 205 ($57k)2023 Revenue 91 ($357k) Expenses 57 ($263k) Net assets 545 ($152k)2024 Revenue 88 ($343k) Expenses 77 ($360k) Net assets 490 ($137k)2025 Revenue 85 ($333k) Expenses 78 ($365k) Net assets 380 ($106k)2026 Revenue 84 ($330k) Expenses 88 ($409k) Net assets 96 ($27k)
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Revenue (84)Expenses (88)Net assets (96)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2025 to 2026, from $317k to $245k (−23%).

$288k
$308k
$376k
$366k
$394k
$369k
$317k
$245k
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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
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 37% · 2022 1% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 3% · 2026 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$74k
’17
$939
’18
$37k
’21
−$93k
’22
$94k
’23
−$17k
’24
−$32k
’25
−$79k
’26
2.7
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.

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Listed1111886121210
Joined·+7·+0+0+9+0+6
No longer listed·7·02308
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
1
1

From the IRS filings of Benevolent & Prot Order of Elks 916’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

Benevolent & Prot Order of Elks 916 draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, 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 & Prot Order of Elks 916

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 Vermont

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Benevolent & Prot Order of Elks 916: 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 & Prot Order of Elks 916?
Benevolent & Prot Order of Elks 916 (Vermont) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $37,500 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 & Prot Order of Elks 916 have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $37,500 in grants to Benevolent & Prot Order of Elks 916, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Benevolent & Prot Order of Elks 916?
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 & Prot Order of Elks 916 find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), 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