Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 750251309
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2016, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Cleburne, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8176459079
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $100,331
- Expenses
- $109,126
- Assets
- $20,250
- Liabilities
- $5,704
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
People named in this filing
- Bill Ross (Exalted Ruler)
- Ronnie Nickel (Leading Knight)
- Josie Bowlin (Loyal Knight)
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
To carry on fraternal activity under the lodge system, the net income of which is used for benevolent and charitable purposes. This is accomplished through
What it reported doing in 2025
To carry on fraternal activity under the lodge system, the net income of which used for benevolent and charitablepurposes.
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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.8%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.19; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.28; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.9% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.