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BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF THE ELKS OF THE USA

BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF THE ELKS OF THE USA (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $34,500 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($34,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$444k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$35k
Net assets
$775k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

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

Mission

To complete the national community,social,patriotic and charitable activites endorsed by the grand lodge plus local charitable,patriotic and community projects.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization has been able to complete the national community,social,patriotic and charitable activities endorsed by the grand lodge plus local charitable,patriotic and community projects.

    $169,048 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $169,048.

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 ($348k) Expenses 100 ($293k) Net assets 100 ($420k)2019 Revenue 105 ($365k) Expenses 102 ($300k) Net assets 115 ($483k)2020 Revenue 101 ($353k) Expenses 115 ($339k) Net assets 115 ($483k)2021 Revenue 43 ($150k) Expenses 71 ($209k) Net assets 155 ($651k)2022 Revenue 87 ($304k) Expenses 122 ($359k) Net assets 137 ($574k)2023 Revenue 127 ($442k) Expenses 116 ($339k) Net assets 154 ($646k)2024 Revenue 97 ($339k) Expenses 126 ($369k) Net assets 161 ($677k)2025 Revenue 128 ($444k) Expenses 118 ($347k) Net assets 184 ($775k)
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Revenue (128)Expenses (118)Net assets (184)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $709k to $943k (+33%).

$673k
$730k
$709k
$943k
$856k
$995k
$950k
$1.0M
'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$55k
’18
$64k
’19
$14k
’20
−$59k
’21
−$55k
’22
$103k
’23
−$30k
’24
$97k
’25
2.4
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.

'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed1515151615131515
Joined·+3+3+3+4+3+6+2
No longer listed·3325542
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 THE 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 THE ELKS OF THE USA draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, 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 THE 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 Massachusetts

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

49% of spending goes to programs.

Program 49%Management 51%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF THE ELKS OF THE USA?
BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF THE ELKS OF THE USA (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $34,500 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($34,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF THE ELKS OF THE USA have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $34,500 in grants to BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF THE 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 THE ELKS OF THE USA?
ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $34,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF THE ELKS OF THE USA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), 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