· Public charity
Arlington Lions Foundation Inc
To empower volunteers to serve their communities, meet humanitarian needs, encourage peace and promote international understanding through lions clubs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $47,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $62,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $15,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARLINGTON COMM SERVICE | $20,000 |
| ARLINGTON LITTLE LEAGUE | $7,000 |
| NORTH FLORIDA EYE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE CARPENTERS SHOP | $5,000 |
| FLORIDA LIONS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- LLLITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC5× · 2021–2025 · $80k
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS ETC INC3× · 2022–2025 · $35k · revenue +24%
- ACArlington Community Services Inc2× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF JACKSONVILLE INCone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
- PAPolice Athletic League of Jacksonville Incone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +16%
- NFNorth Florida Lions Eye Foundation Incone grant, 2022 · $6k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The organization purchases hot and frozen meals which are delivered by volunteers to local residents unable to cook due to advanced age or mental or physical disability. we provide 5 nutritious meals per week to approximately 40 clients.…
To improve the quality of life for patients and families and be the compassionate guide for end-of-life care in our community.
The mission of the florida center for the blind is to foster hope, confidence and independence in individuals with visual impairments; and to educate the community about preventing vision loss.
The jacksonville humane society provides care, comfort and compassion to animals in need while engaging the hearts, hands and minds of our community to bring about an end to the killing of abandoned and orphaned shelter animals.
To provide homes for disadvantaged children.
Legal services for needy in north east florida area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels Etc Inc and the most unlike its peers is Florida Lions Foundation for the Blind Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 9 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF JACKSONVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ETC INC ↗
- Who funds Arlington Community Services Inc ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA LIONS FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds Police Athletic League of Jacksonville Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CARPENTER'S SHOP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Community Hospice of Northeast Florida Foundation for Caring Inc ↗
- Who funds North Florida Lions Eye Foundation Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Arlington Lions Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Meals On Wheels Etc Inc — 18% of income from government
- The Carpenter's Shop Center Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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