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BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA

EIN 71-0291344 FORT SMITH, AR

Largest nonprofits in Arkansas

Revenue 2025
$60,310
Expenses 2025
$52,026

Program services were 23.1% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
08
Classification
1000
Street
5504 MASSARD RD

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Group exemption

A subordinate covered by the group exemption of BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA (EIN 36-0793011). matched by us

The IRS lists each organization's group exemption number; we match a subordinate to its central organization by that number and the affiliation code the IRS assigns.

Mission and programs · 2025

Primary exempt purpose

Benevolent Organization supporting primarily Veterans and Children

  • Fort Smith Boys and Girls Club cash donation to assist with boys and girls uniforms and banners for sports programs. Serves 750 plus children. Purchase of 250 metal water bottles for students at Howard Elementary in Fort Smith Arkansas due to non working water fountains.

    Expenses $5,000 · Grants $5,000

  • Manes and Miracles equine assisted therapy center cash donation to help with the purchase of a software system. Serves approximately 150 children and individuals per week with developmental disabilities.

    Expenses $2,500 · Grants $2,500

  • Sleep in Heavenly Peace cash donation to buy construction material, mattresses and bedding for children currently sleeping on floors. This donation assisted with the build of 16 beds at $250 each and also included home deliveries. Organization members helped with building and home set up.

    Expenses $3,500 · Grants $3,500

  • Hope Campus cash donation to assist with job equipment for Veterans.

    Expenses $1,000 · Grants $1,000

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Greg Vanderpluym

    Exalted Ruler

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20
  • Renona Crowden

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Shannon Seyler

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Cheryl Higginbotham

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20
  • Tina Chavis

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Sue Arter

    Esquire

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jan Stone

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Donna Sims

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Jerry Bollin

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Bryan Brown

    Inner Guard

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Stan Stone

    Chaplain

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $60,310
    Expenses
    $52,026
    Contributions
    $19,438
    Grants paid
    $13,890
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $54,776
    Expenses
    $46,738
    Contributions
    $14,344
    Grants paid
    $12,457
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $53,730
    Expenses
    $47,995
    Contributions
    $14,876
    Grants paid
    $10,500
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $49,335
    Expenses
    $44,132
    Contributions
    $14,232
    Grants paid
    $10,000

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $49,622
    Expenses
    $40,051
    Assets (EOY)
    $342,090

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Not present in the most recent drop.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.