Orange Elks Lodge No 1475 Bpoe
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 950541048
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Orange, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7145382168
- Rating
- 35
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $758,492
- Expenses
- $760,555
- Assets
- $703,907
- Liabilities
- $208,522
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- CRAIG COLEMAN (Secretary): $27,032 total reported compensation
- JIM LOCKRIDGE (Treasurer): $11,738 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To inculcate the principles of charity, justice, brotherly love and fidelity; to recognize a belief in god; to promote the welfare and enhance the happiness of its members; to quicken the spirit of american patriotism; to cultivate good fellowship; to perpetuate itself as a fraternal organization, and to provide for its governance, the benevolent and protective order of elks of the united states of america will serve the people and communities through benevolent programs.
What it reported doing in 2025
Operates under the lodge system for the exclusive benefit of the members
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
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 85
- Accountability: 31
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 97.2%; rating input score 97; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.3%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.93; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.3; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.1%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -7.8% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 11 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $27K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 10 of 12 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 filed related-organization links
- 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 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 50/100.