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BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 0317 - PORT TOWNSEND

BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 0317 - PORT TOWNSEND (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,451 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($70,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$267k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$82k
Net assets
$434k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%
01What it does

What Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks 0317 - Port Townsend does

Mission

Committed to assistance of numerous civic charities both local and national.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Program

  1. The elks lodge is committed to the assistance of numerous civic charities both local and national and encourages civic-minded townspeople to become involved within the port townsend community.

The program described on its FY2025 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 ($204k) Expenses 100 ($211k) Net assets 100 ($543k)2018 Revenue 111 ($227k) Expenses 112 ($236k) Net assets 99 ($537k)2019 Revenue 129 ($264k) Expenses 130 ($274k) Net assets 97 ($526k)2020 Revenue 127 ($258k) Expenses 139 ($293k) Net assets 91 ($491k)2021 Revenue 68 ($138k) Expenses 65 ($138k) Net assets 91 ($492k)2022 Revenue 79 ($161k) Expenses 110 ($232k) Net assets 77 ($421k)2023 Revenue 101 ($207k) Expenses 87 ($185k) Net assets 82 ($445k)2024 Revenue 105 ($215k) Expenses 107 ($226k) Net assets 80 ($433k)2025 Revenue 123 ($251k) Expenses 115 ($244k) Net assets 81 ($442k)2026 Revenue 131 ($267k) Expenses 136 ($287k) Net assets 80 ($434k)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25'26
Revenue (131)Expenses (136)Net assets (80)

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 $567k to $511k (−10%).

$590k
$604k
$603k
$564k
$567k
$511k
$520k
$519k
$511k
$503k
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25'26
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
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 0% · 2023 2% · 2024 3% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.

−$7k
’17
−$9k
’18
−$10k
’19
−$35k
’20
$439
’21
−$71k
’22
$22k
’23
−$11k
’24
$8k
’25
−$20k
’26
6.8
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25'26
Listed8888161410111511
Joined·+5+1+3+11+3+3+5+7+4
No longer listed·513357438
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
2
2
1
1

From the IRS filings of BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 0317 - PORT TOWNSEND’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 0317 - PORT TOWNSEND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% 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

86%
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 0317 - PORT TOWNSEND draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, 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

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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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WA

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Questions and answers

Who funds BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 0317 - PORT TOWNSEND?
BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 0317 - PORT TOWNSEND (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,451 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($70,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 0317 - PORT TOWNSEND have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $82,451 in grants to BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 0317 - PORT TOWNSEND, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 0317 - PORT TOWNSEND?
ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $70,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 0317 - PORT TOWNSEND find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 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