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Lakewood RanchSarasota BPOE Lodge 2855

Lakewood RanchSarasota BPOE Lodge 2855 (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,000 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($39,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$490k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$65k
Net assets
$1.7M
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Lakewood RanchSarasota BPOE Lodge 2855 does

Mission

Provide services, activities and funds for U.S. military veterans, children and the local community

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide services, activities and funds for U.S. veterans, children and the local community

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990.

02The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($223k) Expenses 100 ($185k) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2018 Revenue 139 ($311k) Expenses 127 ($235k) Net assets 104 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 188 ($420k) Expenses 189 ($350k) Net assets 101 ($1.2M)2020 Revenue 219 ($488k) Expenses 233 ($433k) Net assets 106 ($1.2M)2021 Revenue 154 ($344k) Expenses 168 ($311k) Net assets 108 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 216 ($482k) Expenses 192 ($356k) Net assets 118 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 241 ($538k) Expenses 250 ($463k) Net assets 125 ($1.5M)2024 Revenue 286 ($638k) Expenses 271 ($501k) Net assets 136 ($1.6M)2025 Revenue 245 ($547k) Expenses 281 ($520k) Net assets 139 ($1.6M)2026 Revenue 220 ($490k) Expenses 247 ($458k) Net assets 141 ($1.7M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25'26
Revenue (220)Expenses (247)Net assets (141)

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 $1.2M to $2.2M (+77%).

$1.2M
$2.2M
$2.2M
$2.2M
$2.2M
$2.3M
$2.4M
$2.5M
$2.5M
$2.5M
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25'26
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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.

$38k
’17
$76k
’18
$70k
’19
$55k
’20
$34k
’21
$126k
’22
$75k
’23
$137k
’24
$26k
’25
$32k
’26
9.4
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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25'26
Listed11111111101111111111
Joined·+2+1+4+1+3+2+6+3+7
No longer listed·214222637
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
2
2
2
1

From the IRS filings of Lakewood RanchSarasota BPOE Lodge 2855’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

Lakewood RanchSarasota BPOE Lodge 2855 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

40% 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 Lakewood RanchSarasota BPOE Lodge 2855.

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

“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

Lakewood RanchSarasota BPOE Lodge 2855 draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, 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

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05Profile & governance

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

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds Lakewood RanchSarasota BPOE Lodge 2855?
Lakewood RanchSarasota BPOE Lodge 2855 (Florida) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,000 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($39,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Lakewood RanchSarasota BPOE Lodge 2855 have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $65,000 in grants to Lakewood RanchSarasota BPOE Lodge 2855, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Lakewood RanchSarasota BPOE Lodge 2855?
ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $39,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Lakewood RanchSarasota BPOE Lodge 2855 find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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