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PIERRE ELKS LODGE #1953

PIERRE ELKS LODGE #1953 (South Dakota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $22,500 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($22,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$45k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$23k
Net assets
$557k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Pierre Elks Lodge #1953 does

Mission

As subordinate lodges of the benevolent and protective order of elks of the united states of america (elks usa), this lodges mission is to carry out the benevolent, charitable and member programs, projects and activities of elks usa

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Program

  1. Promote and practice the four cardinal virtues of charity, justice, brotherly love and fidelity

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($65k) Expenses 100 ($54k) Net assets 100 ($521k)2022 Revenue 60 ($39k) Expenses 87 ($47k) Net assets 101 ($525k)2023 Revenue 91 ($59k) Expenses 95 ($51k) Net assets 89 ($461k)2024 Revenue 59 ($38k) Expenses 108 ($58k) Net assets 96 ($500k)2025 Revenue 74 ($48k) Expenses 84 ($45k) Net assets 98 ($510k)2026 Revenue 70 ($45k) Expenses 92 ($49k) Net assets 107 ($557k)
202120222023202420252026
Revenue (70)Expenses (92)Net assets (107)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $536k to $465k (−13%).

$530k
$536k
$465k
$505k
$523k
$569k
202120222023202420252026
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$11k
’21
−$8k
’22
$7k
’23
−$20k
’24
$2k
’25
−$4k
’26
8.5
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.

Board chair

Wade Pogany

Trustee chair

As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.

202120222023202420252026
Listed121212121212
Joined·+2+4+2+0+3
No longer listed·24203
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*
'26*
total
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of PIERRE ELKS LODGE #1953’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.

Where its funders are

PIERRE ELKS LODGE #1953 draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Dakota, across 1 state in all.

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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

Organizations like PIERRE ELKS LODGE #1953

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 South Dakota

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PIERRE ELKS LODGE #1953: 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 PIERRE ELKS LODGE #1953?
PIERRE ELKS LODGE #1953 (South Dakota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $22,500 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($22,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PIERRE ELKS LODGE #1953 have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $22,500 in grants to PIERRE ELKS LODGE #1953, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PIERRE ELKS LODGE #1953?
ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $22,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PIERRE ELKS LODGE #1953 find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Dakota. 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 2021–2026), and the filings of 1 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