ND Major Elks Project

Analysis

ND Major Elks Project is a registered charity in United States, based in Bismarck, ND. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1990, 36 years ago. 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 2024, ND Major Elks Project reported income of $1.1m and spending of $1.0m, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2020 to March 2024, income fell from $1.4m to $1.1m (-26%), an average of -7.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 173%. Over the whole period it spent 70% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, ND Major Elks Project sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 80th percentile, and in the 78th percentile within ND. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Meals on Wheels of Charlottesville- Albemarle ($1.1m), Pottsville Free Public Library ($1.1m) and New London Outing Club ($1.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending March 2024, revenue came from contributions and grants 42% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $96k (9.5% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $334k. At year end it held assets of $8.1m against liabilities of $419, net assets of $8.1m. It reported 42 employees.