· Private foundation
Boca Raton Lions Activities Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| ST JOHN PAUL II ACADEMY | $3,000 |
| WAYNE BARTON STUDY CENTER | $2,000 |
| BOCA HELPING HANDS | $1,800 |
| FLORIDA LIONS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| LIONS CLUB INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| BROWARD COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $600 |
| DEC MY ROOM | $600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| FLORIDA LIONS EYE BANKJMH | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| CONKLIN CENTER | $500 |
| SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS | $500 |
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 (FY20–24, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% 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.
13 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- WBWAYNE BARTON STUDY CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $23k · revenue +557%
- LCLions Clubs International Foundation5× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +32%
- BHBOCA HELPING HANDS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- LMLIONS MULTIPLE DISTRICT 1one grant, 2023 · $1k
- LOLions of District 35-N Incone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue 0%
- FDFLORIDA DOG GUIDES FOR THE DEAFone grant, 2020 · $500
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.
Community charity
Organization objectives:a. to advance lionism throughout the multiple district and the world.b. to untie the clubs of the multiple district in bonds of friendship, good fellowship, and mutual understanding.c. to take an active interest in…
To raise awareness and support for the visually impaired and other handicapped children in the community.
Non-profit community service group.
Provide leadership to Lions Clubs and humanitarian aid
Vision screening in local school. Provide eye exams and glasses for needy individuals. Support of organizations that help vision impaired, hearing impaired, disabled and needy individuals. Volunteer for events sponsored by community…
Provide grant to assist the visually and hearing impaired
Lions Clubs International District 2-S2 was formed to provide District 2-S2 with an efficient organization for the purpose of advancing Lionism in accordance with the objectives of the Association of Lions Clubs International. Lions Clubs…
Rehabilitation center for the multihandicapped blind. vari- ious life skills, orientation, mobility and vocational train ing is taught. approximately 80 multihandicapped blind stu- dents are enrolled in extended community based services.…
Assisting with eyesight and hearing needs, and diabetes awareness, providing eye screenings, collection glasses for world-wide distribution
Grants
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lions Clubs International Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wayne Barton Study Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 19 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 WAYNE BARTON STUDY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Lions Clubs International Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOCA HELPING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA LIONS FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds Dec My Room Inc ↗
- Who funds BROWARD COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Lions of District 35-N Inc ↗
- Who funds American Disabilities Foundation Inc ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Boca Raton Lions Activities 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.
- Southeastern Guide Dogs 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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