Benevolent & Protective Order of 407 Perry Elks Lodge
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 420136000
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Perry, IA, USA
- Rating
- 54
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $119,711
- Expenses
- $117,351
- Assets
- $181,458
- Liabilities
- $27,622
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- Travis Landgrebe (Exalted Ruler)
- Larry Meacham (Secretary)
- Bill Halling (Trustee)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Charity
What it reported doing in 2025
Community - Food Baskets, clothing, and essentials for Needy families, assisting with food to local pantry serving over 85 families.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 17
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 17%; rating input score 17
- Program expense ratio: 17.3%; rating input score 17
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.55; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.1%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -20% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 17% of revenue deployed · 17.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $20K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 17/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 17/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.