Illinois · Nonprofit
ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC (Illinois) receives grants from 132 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,621,457 to it, the largest being Harry-Anna Investment Fund Inc ($2,500,000). 80 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $62M
- Funders on record
- 132
- Grants received
- $7.6M
- Net assets
- $942M
What Elks National Foundation Inc does
Mission
The foundation's mission is to help the benevolent and protective order of elks of the united states of america (bpoe) build stronger communities by offering college scholarships, funding programs that build the character and confidence of youth, serving veterans, and providing elks lodges and state associations with resources they need to accomplish their charitable objectives.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
The foundation provides one to four-year academic scholarships up to $7,500 per year to approximately 900 individuals for the purpose of undergraduate or graduate education.
$4,078,227 spentof which $3,410,615 as grants10% of program spendingThe foundation provided grants to the elks state associations to help fund their charitable activities. These activities include medical care and research, in-home treatment for children with disabilities, youth camps, shelters for abused women, and state level programs consistent with those provided by the foundation. The foundation provided grants ranging to $10,000 to help elks lodges implement projects and programs that address unmet needs in their communities in lasting and meaningful ways.the foundation provided funds to the elks veterans service commission for various programs benefiting veterans. The foundation also provided funds to the elks veterans memorial restoration trust to help pay for needed maintenance and upkeep of the elks veterans memorial and to the elks national drug awareness commission to pursue the foundation's drug awareness program.
$37,230,431 spentof which $36,952,302 as grants87% of program spendingHoop shoot
$1,502,948 spentof which $37,000 as grants4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $42,811,606.
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.
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 $756M to $936M (+24%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2020 1% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 1% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
Roger R True
Chairman
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 32 funders to 47 funders, grant income rose $211k → $784k.
15 of 132 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 132 funders by total. 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 NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
95% 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 NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 28% · 2019 29% · 2020 32% · 2021 43% · 2022 28% · 2023 29% — 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.
How long its funders stay
32% of ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 38 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 states 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.
Against its field
ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC's funding base is broadening — from 32 funders to 47 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 846 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2026
Government funding ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.9M on record.
- Department of Justice$1.9M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
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.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
35%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks · exempt
- Elks Veterans Memorial Restoration Trust · exempt
- Elks National Veterans Service Commission · exempt
- Elks National Drug Awareness Commission · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC?
- ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC (Illinois) receives grants from 132 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,621,457 to it, the largest being Harry-Anna Investment Fund Inc ($2,500,000). 80 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 132 organizations giving $7,621,457 in grants to ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC, 80 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC?
- Harry-Anna Investment Fund Inc is the largest funder on record, with $2,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 132 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing