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BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER

BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,669 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL VETERANS SERVICE COMMISSION ($6,669). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$434k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$13k
Net assets
$1.4M
0/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What Benevolent & Protective Order does

Mission

To inculcate the principles of charity, justice, brotherly love and fidelity; to recognize belief in god; to promote the welfare and enhance the happiness of its members; to quicken spirit of american patriotism; to cultivate good fellowship; to perpetuate itself as a fraternal organization, to provide for its government, and to serve the people and communities through benevolent programs.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Membership dues paid by lodge members is the part of a fraternal organization that allows the lodge to operate and fund its charitable operations of supporting youth, veterans, and the local community.

  2. The lodge sells food and drink to its members to allow the lodge to operate and fund its charitable operations in the local community.

  3. The lodge conducts various activities throughout the year including dances, sale of lottery tickets, special events, etc to allow the lodge to operate and fund its charitable operations in the local community.

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($274k) Expenses 100 ($268k) Net assets 100 ($1.0M)2022 Revenue 113 ($310k) Expenses 109 ($292k) Net assets 99 ($1.0M)2023 Revenue 117 ($321k) Expenses 139 ($371k) Net assets 90 ($933k)2024 Revenue 129 ($353k) Expenses 136 ($365k) Net assets 125 ($1.3M)2025 Revenue 145 ($396k) Expenses 136 ($364k) Net assets 128 ($1.3M)2026 Revenue 158 ($434k) Expenses 148 ($395k) Net assets 135 ($1.4M)
202120222023202420252026
Revenue (158)Expenses (148)Net assets (135)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1000k to $1.4M (+37%).

$1.1M
$1.1M
$1000k
$1.4M
$1.4M
$1.5M
202120222023202420252026
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$6k
’21
$18k
’22
−$50k
’23
−$12k
’24
$32k
’25
$39k
’26
6.6
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.

202120222023202420252026
Listed111414141415
Joined·+3+6+0+5+8
No longer listed·06057
03Who funds it

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’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 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 & PROTECTIVE ORDER.

53%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
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 draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, 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

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 Missouri

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

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?
BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,669 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL VETERANS SERVICE COMMISSION ($6,669). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $12,669 in grants to BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER.
Who is the largest funder of BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER?
ELKS NATIONAL VETERANS SERVICE COMMISSION is the largest funder on record, with $6,669 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2021–2026), 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