Wyoming Elks Charitable and Benevolent Trust

Analysis

Wyoming Elks Charitable and Benevolent Trust is a registered charity in United States, based in Cody, WY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1985, 41 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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 April 2023, Wyoming Elks Charitable and Benevolent Trust reported income of $129k and spending of $35k, leaving 73% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2019 to April 2023, income fell from $140k to $129k (-7.9%), an average of -2.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 66%. Over the whole period it spent 26% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Wyoming Elks Charitable and Benevolent Trust sits at the 38th percentile: it is larger than about 38% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 44th percentile, and in the 40th percentile within WY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Leadership Institute for Development Education and Research ($129k), Huddle Up Moms ($129k) and Lake Orion Lions Club Charities Inc ($129k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending April 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 23% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.7m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.7m.