Ohio · Nonprofit
BENEVOLENT PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 156
BENEVOLENT PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 156 (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $37,000 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($37,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $72k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $37k
- Net assets
- $18k
What Benevolent Protective Order of Elks 156 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.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization operates and maintains a lodge and has bar and grill sales to serve its members and community through benevolent programs.
$102,829 spentof which $2,339 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $102,829.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $75k to $61k (−18%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
27% of BENEVOLENT PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 156’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (24% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
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 OF ELKS 156’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 PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 156 draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 1 state in all.
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.
Against its field
BENEVOLENT PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 156's revenue fell 39% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,330 membership benefit nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like BENEVOLENT PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 156
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BENEVOLENT PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 156: 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 ORDER OF ELKS 156?
- BENEVOLENT PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 156 (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $37,000 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($37,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BENEVOLENT PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 156 have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $37,000 in grants to BENEVOLENT PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 156, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BENEVOLENT PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 156?
- ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $37,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BENEVOLENT PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS 156 find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), 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