Iowa · Nonprofit
BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,000 to it, the largest being Elks National Foundation Inc ($27,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Elks National Veterans Service Commissionshared fundersportfolio match
- Earl N and Mabel Bragg Bossingham Foundation Co Willson & Pechacek Plclocal
- Clarinda Youth Corporationlocal
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.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 9 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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 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 82% 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
“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 82% of its grant income from funders outside Iowa, across 2 states 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Elks National Veterans Service Commissionshared fundersportfolio matchIL · backs 40 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Earl N and Mabel Bragg Bossingham Foundation Co Willson & Pechacek PlclocalIA · funds 10 organizations near you
- Clarinda Youth CorporationlocalIA · funds 8 organizations near you
- American Legion Department of Ohio Charities Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Dept of Washingtonportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Moose International Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The American Legion National Emergency Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Clarinda Foundation InclocalIA · funds 14 organizations near you
- Optimist International Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United Statesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Legion Post 491 Hesley Jensenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wisconsin VFW Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA?
- BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA (Iowa) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,000 to it, the largest being Elks National Foundation Inc ($27,000). 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 2 organizations giving $33,000 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 $27,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing