Illinois · Nonprofit
ELGIN ELKS LODGE NO 737
ELGIN ELKS LODGE NO 737 (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $174,213 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL VETERANS SERVICE COMMISSION ($136,713). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $113k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $174k
- Net assets
- $149k
What Elgin Elks Lodge No 737 does
Mission
Primary exempt purpose- invest in local community through programs that help children gorw up healthy and drug-free, addressing unmet needs and by honoring the service and sacrafice of veterans.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Invest in local community through programs tha help children grow up healthy and drug free, addressing the unmet needs and honoring the service and sacrafice of veterans.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
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 2017 to 2018, from $117k to $184k (+57%).
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. 5 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $12k → $34k.
From the IRS filings of ELGIN ELKS LODGE NO 737’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
ELGIN ELKS LODGE NO 737 leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% 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
78% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ELGIN ELKS LODGE NO 737.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 73% — diversifying over time.
“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
100% of ELGIN ELKS LODGE NO 737's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Organizations like ELGIN ELKS LODGE NO 737
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ELGIN ELKS LODGE NO 737: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ELGIN ELKS LODGE NO 737?
- ELGIN ELKS LODGE NO 737 (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $174,213 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL VETERANS SERVICE COMMISSION ($136,713). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ELGIN ELKS LODGE NO 737 have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $174,213 in grants to ELGIN ELKS LODGE NO 737, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ELGIN ELKS LODGE NO 737?
- ELKS NATIONAL VETERANS SERVICE COMMISSION is the largest funder on record, with $136,713 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ELGIN ELKS LODGE NO 737 find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2 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