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BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS

BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $56,500 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($56,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$1.1M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$57k
Net assets
$1.6M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks does

Mission

Inculcate the principles of charity, justice, brotherly love and fidelity; to promote the welfare and enhance the happiness of its members; to quicken the spirit of patriotism; to cultivate good fellowship; to perpetuate itself as a fraternal organization, and to provide for its government.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Program

  1. Donations to various charitable organizations, support of veterans, and operation of lodge activities

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 ($362k) Expenses 100 ($214k) Net assets 100 ($509k)2018 Revenue 89 ($323k) Expenses 98 ($209k) Net assets 122 ($622k)2019 Revenue 73 ($264k) Expenses 84 ($181k) Net assets 139 ($706k)2020 Revenue 93 ($337k) Expenses 100 ($214k) Net assets 163 ($829k)2021 Revenue 63 ($228k) Expenses 119 ($256k) Net assets 157 ($801k)2022 Revenue 124 ($449k) Expenses 130 ($278k) Net assets 191 ($973k)2023 Revenue 121 ($439k) Expenses 202 ($433k) Net assets 192 ($978k)2024 Revenue 230 ($832k) Expenses 323 ($691k) Net assets 220 ($1.1M)2025 Revenue 349 ($1.3M) Expenses 471 ($1.0M) Net assets 270 ($1.4M)2026 Revenue 292 ($1.1M) Expenses 393 ($842k) Net assets 312 ($1.6M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25'26
Revenue (292)Expenses (393)Net assets (312)

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 $1.5M to $1.8M (+18%).

$580k
$711k
$802k
$905k
$929k
$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.3M
$1.5M
$1.8M
'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

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.

$147k
’17
$114k
’18
$84k
’19
$123k
’20
−$27k
’21
$171k
’22
$6k
’23
$141k
’24
$254k
’25
$214k
’26
13
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
Listed15151515151415111515
Joined·+0+8+3+5+3+7+4+4+6
No longer listed·083546806
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 & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS’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 draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, 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 OF ELKS

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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 19%Fundraising 1%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Visalia Elks Building Association · exempt

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS: 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?
BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $56,500 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($56,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $56,500 in grants to BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS?
ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $56,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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