Missouri Elks Benevolent Trust Inc

Analysis

Missouri Elks Benevolent Trust Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Ste Genevieve, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1963, 63 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending March 2023, Missouri Elks Benevolent Trust Inc reported income of $359k and spending of $99k, leaving 72% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2019 to March 2023, income fell from $613k to $359k (-41%), an average of -12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2020, when income dropped by 55%. Over the whole period it spent 59% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Missouri Elks Benevolent Trust Inc sits at the 59th percentile: it is larger than about 59% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile, and in the 62nd percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Changing Lives of Boca Raton ($359k), First Generation Investors ($359k) and Cozad Child Care ($359k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending March 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 72% of the total. At year end it held assets of $3.8m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $3.8m.