Texas · Nonprofit
Benevolent & Protective Order of Sherman Elks Lodge 2280
Benevolent & Protective Order of Sherman Elks Lodge 2280 (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $26,000 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($26,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $125k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $26k
- Net assets
- $77k
What Benevolent & Protective Order of Sherman Elks Lodge 2280 does
Mission
To carry on fraternal activities under the Lodge system, the net income of which is used exclusively for benevolent and charitable purposes. This is accomplished through youth activities, drug awareness, youth scholarship, assistance to local charities, veteran programs, Americanism, and support to State Major Project.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To carry on fraternal activities under the Lodge system, the net income of which is used exclusively for benevolent and charitable purposes. This is accomplished through youth activities, drug awareness, youth scholarship, assistance to local charities, veteran programs, Americanism, and support to State Major Project.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $100k to $115k (+15%).
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. 4 of the last 7 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 Sherman Elks Lodge 2280’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 Sherman Elks Lodge 2280 draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 1 state 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.
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In Texas
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Benevolent & Protective Order of Sherman Elks Lodge 2280?
- Benevolent & Protective Order of Sherman Elks Lodge 2280 (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $26,000 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($26,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Benevolent & Protective Order of Sherman Elks Lodge 2280 have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $26,000 in grants to Benevolent & Protective Order of Sherman Elks Lodge 2280, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Benevolent & Protective Order of Sherman Elks Lodge 2280?
- ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $26,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Benevolent & Protective Order of Sherman Elks Lodge 2280 find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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