California · Nonprofit
MERCED LODGE NO 1240 BPO ELKS
MERCED LODGE NO 1240 BPO ELKS (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,916 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($34,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $628k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Merced Lodge No 1240 Bpo Elks does
Mission
The mission of the elks is to help build stronger communities. We fulfill this pledge by investing in communities. We provide tomorrow's leaders, our youth, with lifelong skills. Fund projects that improve the quality of life in local elks communities.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
The club's dining room and bar are operated for the exclusive benefit of the lodge members.
Lodge activites are of a fundraising nature for the benefit of charity. The lodge donates funds to various charitable organizations in the community and scholarships to individual students.
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.2M to $1.5M (+28%).
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: 2021 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of MERCED LODGE NO 1240 BPO ELKS’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
MERCED LODGE NO 1240 BPO ELKS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% 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
“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
MERCED LODGE NO 1240 BPO ELKS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.
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 MERCED LODGE NO 1240 BPO ELKS
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Elks Park Scholarship & Charity Fun · exempt
- Ferrero Scholarship Trust · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MERCED LODGE NO 1240 BPO ELKS: 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 MERCED LODGE NO 1240 BPO ELKS?
- MERCED LODGE NO 1240 BPO ELKS (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,916 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($34,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MERCED LODGE NO 1240 BPO ELKS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $39,916 in grants to MERCED LODGE NO 1240 BPO ELKS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MERCED LODGE NO 1240 BPO ELKS?
- ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $34,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERCED LODGE NO 1240 BPO ELKS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 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