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BENEVOLENT PROTECTIVE ELKS 1791

BENEVOLENT PROTECTIVE ELKS 1791 (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $33,000 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($33,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$138k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$33k
Net assets
$221k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Benevolent Protective Elks 1791 does

Mission

Benefit members as well as verterans and others within our community

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Sponosr kid's carnival, bingo games and other fundraisers to support our community including underprivileged children, those with cancer and other local organizations that need support.

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

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 ($109k) Expenses 100 ($99k) Net assets 100 ($190k)2018 Revenue 111 ($121k) Expenses 108 ($108k) Net assets 107 ($203k)2019 Revenue 105 ($114k) Expenses 112 ($112k) Net assets 108 ($205k)2020 Revenue 132 ($144k) Expenses 130 ($129k) Net assets 116 ($220k)2021 Revenue 87 ($95k) Expenses 93 ($92k) Net assets 117 ($222k)2022 Revenue 142 ($154k) Expenses 127 ($126k) Net assets 135 ($256k)2023 Revenue 142 ($155k) Expenses 166 ($165k) Net assets 133 ($253k)2024 Revenue 113 ($123k) Expenses 141 ($141k) Net assets 132 ($250k)2025 Revenue 107 ($116k) Expenses 141 ($140k) Net assets 119 ($226k)2026 Revenue 127 ($138k) Expenses 143 ($143k) Net assets 116 ($221k)
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Revenue (127)Expenses (143)Net assets (116)

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 $242k to $279k (+15%).

$207k
$211k
$220k
$236k
$242k
$279k
$274k
$270k
$257k
$249k
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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
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2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.

$9k
’17
$13k
’18
$2k
’19
$15k
’20
$2k
’21
$28k
’22
−$11k
’23
−$18k
’24
−$24k
’25
−$5k
’26
10
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
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'26*
total
funders
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of BENEVOLENT PROTECTIVE ELKS 1791’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 ELKS 1791's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

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 ELKS 1791

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 Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BENEVOLENT PROTECTIVE ELKS 1791: 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 ELKS 1791?
BENEVOLENT PROTECTIVE ELKS 1791 (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $33,000 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($33,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BENEVOLENT PROTECTIVE ELKS 1791 have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $33,000 in grants to BENEVOLENT PROTECTIVE ELKS 1791, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BENEVOLENT PROTECTIVE ELKS 1791?
ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $33,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BENEVOLENT PROTECTIVE ELKS 1791 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 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