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BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA

BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $27,500 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($27,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$206k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$28k
Net assets
$67k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks of the USA does

Mission

Fraternal organization, in addition to being part of a national organization, which contributes to various charities through its foundation, the organization supports the pennsylvania elks association, which maintains a visiting nurse charity, and supports the local community by contributing to youth sports, law enforecment, and local charities, etc.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Program

  1. Fraternal organization. The organization supports a pa elks visiting nurses charity and an elks national foundation which gives scholarships and contributes to many state elk charities. In addition, they support local charities and do things like blood drives.

    $193,944 spent$142,018 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $193,944.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($99k) Expenses 100 ($104k) Net assets 100 ($29k)2022 Revenue 167 ($166k) Expenses 129 ($135k) Net assets 207 ($60k)2023 Revenue 178 ($176k) Expenses 202 ($211k) Net assets 89 ($26k)2024 Revenue 206 ($204k) Expenses 175 ($182k) Net assets 138 ($40k)2025 Revenue 218 ($216k) Expenses 193 ($202k) Net assets 187 ($55k)2026 Revenue 208 ($206k) Expenses 186 ($194k) Net assets 230 ($67k)
202120222023202420252026
Revenue (208)Expenses (186)Net assets (230)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $77k to $41k (−46%).

$44k
$77k
$41k
$76k
$89k
$96k
202120222023202420252026
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.

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 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$5k
’21
$31k
’22
−$34k
’23
$22k
’24
$14k
’25
$12k
’26
4.8
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.

202120222023202420252026
Listed1121071012
Joined···+1+5+4
No longer listed···422
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 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.

Where its funders are

BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, 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
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
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 (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $27,500 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($27,500). 1 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 1 organization giving $27,500 in grants to BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA, 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?
ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $27,500 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 Pennsylvania. 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 2021–2026), 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