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ELKS DISASTER RELIEF PROGRAM INC

ELKS DISASTER RELIEF PROGRAM INC (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,330 to it, the largest being PAYPAL Charitable Giving Fund ($11,641). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$1.1M
Revenue FY2025
2
Funders on record
$19k
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%

Against its field

ELKS DISASTER RELIEF PROGRAM INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 416 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin93% · outside the comparable range
Months of reserve178.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)49% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 416 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($43k) Expenses 100 ($13k) Net assets 100 ($317k)2018 Revenue 685 ($294k) Expenses 1753 ($227k) Net assets 121 ($383k)2019 Revenue 189 ($81k) Expenses 1162 ($151k) Net assets 99 ($313k)2020 Revenue 52 ($22k) Expenses 556 ($72k) Net assets 83 ($264k)2021 Revenue 124 ($53k) Expenses 402 ($52k) Net assets 84 ($265k)2022 Revenue 31 ($13k) Expenses 1059 ($137k) Net assets 45 ($141k)2023 Revenue 197 ($84k) Expenses 855 ($111k) Net assets 36 ($115k)2024 Revenue 86 ($37k) Expenses 184 ($24k) Net assets 48 ($153k)2025 Revenue 2454 ($1.1M) Expenses 599 ($78k) Net assets 356 ($1.1M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (2454)Expenses (599)Net assets (356)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of ELKS DISASTER RELIEF PROGRAM INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (71% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 856 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$30k
17
$67k
18
$70k
19
$50k
20
$999
21
$124k
22
$26k
23
$13k
24
$974k
25
178
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $12k → $8k.

Funder
'17
'20
total
$8k
funders
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)60% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $1.1M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Elks National Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ELKS DISASTER RELIEF PROGRAM INC raised.

From the IRS filings of ELKS DISASTER RELIEF PROGRAM INC’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

ELKS DISASTER RELIEF PROGRAM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% 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

100% 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 ELKS DISASTER RELIEF PROGRAM INC.

60%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100%broadly stable.

“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

60% of ELKS DISASTER RELIEF PROGRAM INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $8k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state.

FL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.

03Its place in the field

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.

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 ELKS DISASTER RELIEF PROGRAM INC

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 Illinois

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
67%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the USA · exempt
  • Elks National Home and Retirement Center · exempt
  • Elks National Foundation Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ELKS DISASTER RELIEF PROGRAM INC: 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 ELKS DISASTER RELIEF PROGRAM INC?
ELKS DISASTER RELIEF PROGRAM INC (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,330 to it, the largest being PAYPAL Charitable Giving Fund ($11,641). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ELKS DISASTER RELIEF PROGRAM INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $19,330 in grants to ELKS DISASTER RELIEF PROGRAM INC.
Who is the largest funder of ELKS DISASTER RELIEF PROGRAM INC?
PAYPAL Charitable Giving Fund is the largest funder on record, with $11,641 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ELKS DISASTER RELIEF PROGRAM INC 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.

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 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