Washington · Nonprofit
SEATTLE BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS
SEATTLE BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,827 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($17,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $303k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $23k
- Net assets
- $12M
What Seattle Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks does
Mission
The mission of the benevolent and protective order of elks (bope) is to promote the principles of charity, justice, brotherly love, and fidelity. The organization also aims to enhance the welfare and happiness of its members, foster american patriotism, cultivate good fellowship, and perpetuate itself as a fraternal organization. Additionally, the elks serve their communities through various benevolent programs, demonstrating that 'elks care and elks share'.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The lodge functions as a central meeting point for its members to plan and carry out local, regional, state, and national programs for brotherhood, charity, and service to the community.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
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
John Aldaya
Chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $9k.
From the IRS filings of SEATTLE BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF 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
SEATTLE BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% 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
26% 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 SEATTLE BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
SEATTLE BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 1 state in all.
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.
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Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SEATTLE BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS?
- SEATTLE BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,827 to it, the largest being ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ($17,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SEATTLE BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $22,827 in grants to SEATTLE BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SEATTLE BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS?
- ELKS NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $17,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SEATTLE BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2025–2025), 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