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BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA

BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA (Arizona) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,556,730 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($1,475,410). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$891k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
$2.4M
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 72%
01What it does

What Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks of the USA does

Mission

Charitable activities including community welfare, education programs and youth activities

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Program

  1. Charitable activities including community welfare, education programs and youth activities

The program described on its FY2026 Form 990.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($388k) Expenses 100 ($339k) Net assets 100 ($698k)2019 Revenue 101 ($390k) Expenses 98 ($334k) Net assets 108 ($756k)2020 Revenue 93 ($360k) Expenses 103 ($349k) Net assets 107 ($747k)2021 Revenue 135 ($523k) Expenses 155 ($526k) Net assets 117 ($819k)2022 Revenue 139 ($539k) Expenses 149 ($504k) Net assets 270 ($1.9M)2023 Revenue 127 ($491k) Expenses 149 ($505k) Net assets 263 ($1.8M)2024 Revenue 188 ($728k) Expenses 200 ($679k) Net assets 285 ($2.0M)2025 Revenue 194 ($751k) Expenses 203 ($689k) Net assets 304 ($2.1M)2026 Revenue 230 ($891k) Expenses 243 ($824k) Net assets 338 ($2.4M)
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Revenue (230)Expenses (243)Net assets (338)

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 $1.0M to $2.1M (+104%).

$776k
$819k
$866k
$1.0M
$2.1M
$2.0M
$2.1M
$2.3M
$2.5M
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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.

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. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$48k
’18
$56k
’19
$10k
’20
−$2k
’21
$35k
’22
−$14k
’23
$49k
’24
$62k
’25
$67k
’26
8.2
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.

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Listed12221212111212
Joined·····+6+6+7+5
No longer listed·····6765
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $12k → $354k.

From the IRS filings of BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA’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 OF THE USA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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

95%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 91% — diversifying over time.

“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 OF THE USA draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 2 states in all.

IL
AZ

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’22
’23
Arizona out of state home

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 OF THE USA

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 Arizona

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

43
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 OF ELKS OF THE USA?
BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA (Arizona) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,556,730 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($1,475,410). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,556,730 in grants to BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA?
ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,475,410 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2018–2026), and the filings of 3 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing