El Dorado BPOE Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
455125790
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
El Dorado, KS, USA
Rating
79
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards

Reported finances

Revenue
$50,016
Expenses
$32,433
Assets
$307,229
Liabilities
$195,736

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Roger Cutsinger (President)

People named in this filing

  • Roger Cutsinger (President)
  • Lisa M Jack (Secretary)
  • Anthony Allison (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

The El Dorado BPOE Foundation is organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes under Section 501 c3. The Foundation supports charitable educational patriotic youth and community programs consistent with the principles of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. The Foundation owns and maintains the facility used by the El Dorado Elks Lodge enabling the Lodge and the Foundation to carry out charitable activities community outreach scholarships veterans programs youth initiatives and other charitable endeavors. The Foundation also receives charitable contributions grants and other support to further its exempt purposes and benefit the community.

What it reported doing in 2025

The Foundation and Lodge provide financial support and resources that benefit Veterans and Americanism events youth activities and drug awareness local scholarships community service Ketch - Elks State program for the handicapped amongst others.

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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and liabilities are high compared with assets.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 86
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 73
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 78.2%; rating input score 78
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 35.2%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 9.47; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.64; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 78.2% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $39K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.