Benevolent & Protective Order of the Elks
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 460110160
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Huron, SD, USA
- Phone
- 6053528639
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $60,415
- Expenses
- $36,715
- Assets
- $224,821
- Liabilities
- $29,759
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
People named in this filing
- CRAIG SLEPIKAS (TRUSTEE)
- KENT HEDGE (CHAPLAIN)
- STEPHANIE BENNETT (TREASURER)
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
Community support
What it reported doing in 2025
The lodge contributes to various charitable organizations, youth activites, and veteran's programs.
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: 74
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 39.2%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.12; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -12.1% per year; rating input score 0; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 70th 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 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.