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ILLINOIS ELKS ASSOCIATION CHARITABLE TRUST
ILLINOIS ELKS ASSOCIATION CHARITABLE TRUST (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,823,140 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($1,682,940). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $376k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $947k
What Illinois Elks Association Charitable Trust does
Mission
The Illinois Elks Association Charitable Trust is a nonprofit organization established exclusively for charitable, educational, and health purposes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Youth and veterans service activities including drug awareness programs and disaster relief funding.
$524,815 spent89% of program spendingScholarships for students.
$64,800 spent11% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $589,615.
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 $907k to $1.1M (+25%).
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. 3 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $28k → $375k.
From the IRS filings of ILLINOIS ELKS ASSOCIATION CHARITABLE TRUST’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
ILLINOIS ELKS ASSOCIATION CHARITABLE TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 93% — 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 ILLINOIS ELKS ASSOCIATION CHARITABLE TRUST'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 ILLINOIS ELKS ASSOCIATION CHARITABLE TRUST
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 1 related entity
- Illinois Elks Association · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ILLINOIS ELKS ASSOCIATION CHARITABLE TRUST: 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 ILLINOIS ELKS ASSOCIATION CHARITABLE TRUST?
- ILLINOIS ELKS ASSOCIATION CHARITABLE TRUST (Illinois) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,823,140 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($1,682,940). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ILLINOIS ELKS ASSOCIATION CHARITABLE TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,823,140 in grants to ILLINOIS ELKS ASSOCIATION CHARITABLE TRUST, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ILLINOIS ELKS ASSOCIATION CHARITABLE TRUST?
- ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,682,940 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ILLINOIS ELKS ASSOCIATION CHARITABLE TRUST 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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