Stillwater Elks Lodge 179
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 410145865
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Stillwater, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6513351828
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $71,568
- Expenses
- $70,381
- Assets
- $125,598
- Liabilities
- $70,491
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
People named in this filing
- KATHY OERTEL (CHAPLAIN)
- JOHN ONEIL (TRUSTEE)
- RICK WALLINDER (ESTEEMED LECTURING 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
Promote values of Elkdom in St Croix Vly
What it reported doing in 2025
Promote values of Elkdom in St Croix Valley, Washington County, Minnesota
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 84% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Multi-channel. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 21% for direct work, 28% for grants, and 51% for member benefits.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98.3%; rating input score 98
- 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: 1.7%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.78; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.56; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.1% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.3% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 98.3% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $70K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 17 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.