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BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA 246

BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA 246 (Montana) 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 FY2026
$157k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$37k
Net assets
$307k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks of the USA 246 does

Mission

Fraternal organization organized to serve its people and community through benevolent programs.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Support of fellowship through meetings & functions with members & support of community through youth & adult activities.

    $95,764 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $95,764.

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 ($91k) Expenses 100 ($92k) Net assets 100 ($203k)2018 Revenue 85 ($78k) Expenses 84 ($77k) Net assets 102 ($207k)2019 Revenue 104 ($95k) Expenses 84 ($78k) Net assets 109 ($222k)2020 Revenue 109 ($99k) Expenses 129 ($119k) Net assets 99 ($202k)2021 Revenue 105 ($96k) Expenses 101 ($93k) Net assets 101 ($206k)2022 Revenue 104 ($95k) Expenses 111 ($102k) Net assets 98 ($199k)2023 Revenue 140 ($128k) Expenses 94 ($87k) Net assets 118 ($240k)2024 Revenue 166 ($152k) Expenses 157 ($145k) Net assets 109 ($221k)2025 Revenue 156 ($143k) Expenses 118 ($108k) Net assets 124 ($251k)2026 Revenue 172 ($157k) Expenses 107 ($99k) Net assets 151 ($307k)
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Revenue (172)Expenses (107)Net assets (151)

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 $270k to $330k (+22%).

$215k
$221k
$231k
$219k
$223k
$219k
$267k
$244k
$270k
$330k
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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.

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. 3 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.

−$860
’17
$750
’18
$18k
’19
−$19k
’20
$4k
’21
−$7k
’22
$41k
’23
$7k
’24
$34k
’25
$58k
’26
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
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'24*
'25*
'26*
total
funders
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA 246’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 OF THE USA 246 draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, 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 OF THE USA 246

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 Montana

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA 246?
BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA 246 (Montana) 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 OF THE USA 246 have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $37,000 in grants to BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA 246, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA 246?
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 OF THE USA 246 find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. 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