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Avalon Lion Charities Foundation Inc

Fundraising to support Cape May County charities that assist the blind and the needy

$419k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$42k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Human Services$229kHealth$188kHousing & Shelter$148kFood & Nutrition$107kEducation$72kCivil Rights$64kReligion$13kYouth Development$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 17 grants below total $397,645, the rows itemized in this filing. The $418,845 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $21,200 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $384k
$27,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$154k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Holy Redeemer Food Pantry$41,645
CARA$37,000
Cape Assist$32,000
Habitat for Humanity of CMC$32,000
Volunteers in Medicine$31,000
Branches Outreach$28,000
Concerned Citizens of Whitesboro$27,000
Family Promise of CMC$27,000
CASA$27,000
Diller Home for Blind Children$24,000
Cape Hope$23,000
Caring for Kids$18,000
Lazarus House$16,000
No Limits Academy$10,000
CVAC$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $143k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%Family Promise of Cape May County: $48k → 10%Branches Outreach: $28k → 10%Branches Outreach: $17k → 10%Family Promise of CMC: $6k → 10%Lazarus House: $16k → 10%Lazarus House: $14k → 10%Lazarus House: $7k → 10%Branches Outreach: $7k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$675k · 13 repeat orgs$93k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
5

Total granted

$675k
$93k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+103%

Still filing today

92%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CA
    COALITION AGAINST RAPE & ABUSE INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $83k · revenue +20%
  • HL
    HELEN L DILLER VACATION HOME FOR BLIND CHILDREN INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $72k · revenue +53%
  • CA
    COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF ATLANTIC CAPE MAY & CAMDEN COUNTIESINC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $64k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • VI
    Volunteers in Medicine
    one grant, 2025 · $31k
  • FP
    Family Promise of CMC
    one grant, 2025 · $27k
  • CF
    CARING FOR KIDS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2025 · $18k · revenue +103%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Camden County Inc

Advocate in the judicial system for the best interest of victims of abuse and neglect in foster care, giving the child a voice in court and moving the child to a safe and permanent home.

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2
Atlantic Area Court Appointed Casa

To protect and prevent cruelty to children

Crime & Legal
3
Cape Atlantic Citizens Altering Stray Cats

Helps to save the lives of area cats and kittens through rescue, foster, trap-neuter return and by placing them in caring lifelong homes.

Philanthropy
4
Casa of Jersey and Greene Counties

To support and promote court appointed volunteer advocacy for abused and neglected children.

Crime & Legal
5
Atlantic Cape Family Support Organization Inc

The organization was created, built and run by parents of emotionally and/or behaviorally challenged children to provide support, education and advocacy for such families.

Human Services
6
Cape Cod Village Inc

Creating housing for adults on the autism spectrum

Housing & Shelter
7
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Ocean County Inc

The purpose of casa is to advocate for the best interest of the vulnerable children in foster care. these children have been removed from their homes due to a substantiated case of abuse and neglect. the casa volunteer serves as the…

Crime & Legal
8
Cape Verdean Veterans Memorial Project
Arts & Culture
9
Family Promise of Southwest Nj

The organization's mission is to provide households experiencing homelessness or are at risk of homelessness, an opportunity to achieve stability by providing comprehensive shelter diversion/homeless prevention, or transitional housing…

Human Services
10
My Fathers House Inc

My Fathers House, Inc. provides assessment, evaluation, intensive outpatient treatment, outpatient treatment, individual counseling, family counseling and aftercare group services. MFHs operation are located in Gloucester City, New Jersey.

Health
11
Camden Home for Children & Spcc
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12
Animal Outreach of Cape May County

To provide care and find homes for stray and abandoned animals, educate public on pet ownership, raise awareness for the need of spay and neuter programs

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cape Assist Inc; the most unlike its peers is Holy Redeemer Health System. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COALITION AGAINST RAPE & ABUSE INC: $82,650 · OtherCOALITION AGAINST RAPE & ABUSE INCHELEN L DILLER VACATION HOME FOR BLIND CHILDREN INC: $72,000 · OtherHELEN L DILLER VACATION HOME FOR BLIND CHILD…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CAPE MAY COUNTY INC: $64,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CAPE MAY COUNTY INCVolunteers in Medicine: $31,000 · OtherVolunteers in MedicineFamily Promise of CMC: $27,000 · OtherFamily Promise of CMCCITIZENS VETERANS ADVISORY COMMITTEE INC: $25,500 · OtherCITIZENS VETERANS ADVISORY COMMITTEE INCLIGHTHOUSE CHURCH OF THE CHRISTIAN AND MISSIONARY ALLIANCE INC: $19,000 · OtherLIGHTHOUSE CHURCH OF THE CHRISTIAN AND MISSI…+1 more: $7,000 · OtherHOLY REDEEMER HEALTH SYSTEM: $69,461 · HealthHOLY REDEEMER HEALTH SY…CAPE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE INC: $56,740 · HealthCAPE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDI…CAPE ASSIST INC: $46,140 · HealthCAPE ASSIST INCFAMILY PROMISE OF CAPE MAY COUNTY: $53,644 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF C…THE BRANCHES OUTREACH: $52,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRANCHES OUTREA…LAZARUS HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $37,492 · Human ServicesLAZARUS HOUSE MINIS…CONCERNED CITIZENS OF WHITESBORO INC: $71,914 · EducationCONCERNED CI…CARING FOR KIDS INC: $18,000 · EducationCARING FOR K…COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF ATLANTIC CAPE MAY & CAMDEN COUNTIESINC: $64,000 · Civil RightsCAPE HOPE INC: $30,000 · ReligionNO LIMITS ACADEMY INC: $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$328,150Health$172,341Human Services$143,136Education$89,914Civil Rights$64,000Religion$30,000Youth Development$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOALITION AGAINST RAPE & ABUSE INC: $82,650 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetHELEN L DILLER VACATION HOME FOR BLIND CHILDREN INC: $72,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetCONCERNED CITIZENS OF WHITESBORO INC: $71,914 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetHOLY REDEEMER HEALTH SYSTEM: $69,461 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CAPE MAY COUNTY INC: $64,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF ATLANTIC CAPE MAY & CAMDEN COUNTIESINC: $64,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCAPE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE INC: $56,740 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF CAPE MAY COUNTY: $53,644 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetTHE BRANCHES OUTREACH: $52,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetCAPE ASSIST INC: $46,140 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetLAZARUS HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $37,492 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetCAPE HOPE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetCITIZENS VETERANS ADVISORY COMMITTEE INC: $25,500 over 2y, 17% of budgetThe International Association of Lions Clubs: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Oceanfirst FoundationCommunity Foundation …The Chatlos Foundatio…United Way of Greater…Community Food Bank O…The Pfizer Foundation…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Oceanfirst FoundationNJ27.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Oceanfirst Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Chatlos Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Avalon Lion Charities Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Avalon Lion Charities Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 80%
  • Cape Assist Inc: 80% of income from government
  • Caring for Kids Inc: 60% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Avalon Lion Charities Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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