Seattle Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 910142830
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2062829292
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $303,046
- Expenses
- $465,305
- Assets
- $11,844,180
- Liabilities
- $107,320
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- BRIAN MARSHALL (SECRETARY): $5,835 total reported compensation
- MICHAEL ALBERT (SECRETARY (THRU 09/24)): $2,321 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the benevolent and protective order of elks (bope) is to promote the principles of charity, justice, brotherly love, and fidelity. The organization also aims to enhance the welfare and happiness of its members, foster american patriotism, cultivate good fellowship, and perpetuate itself as a fraternal organization. Additionally, the elks serve their communities through various benevolent programs, demonstrating that 'elks care and elks share'.
What it reported doing in 2024
The lodge functions as a central meeting point for its members to plan and carry out local, regional, state, and national programs for brotherhood, charity, and service to the community.
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: 90
- Accountability: 67
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -53.5%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 25.45; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.8%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 65.7% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.9% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 7 of 8 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $6K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.