Wisconsin Elks Benevolent Fund Inc

Analysis

Wisconsin Elks Benevolent Fund Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Janesville, WI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1993, 33 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending March 2024, Wisconsin Elks Benevolent Fund Inc reported income of $491k and spending of $373k, leaving 24% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2020 to March 2024, income grew from $381k to $491k (+29%), an average of +6.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 112%. Over the whole period it spent 78% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Wisconsin Elks Benevolent Fund Inc sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile, and in the 70th percentile within WI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Jamestown Foundation Inc ($491k), Chiselers Inc ($491k) and International Cardioncology Society of North America Inc ($490k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending March 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 65% of the total. At year end it held assets of $3.0m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $3.0m.