· Private foundation
California Lions Youth and Camp Foundati
Effective with the sale of the camp owned and operated by the california lions camp the charitable purposes of the corporation is to operate a non-profit organization for the benefit of special needs children or underprivileged youth by providing funding for recreational opportunities and leadership development opportunities to those who…
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k35 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $27k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIONS CLUBS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION | $27,176 |
| LIONS CLUBS INTERNATION CONVETION - MELBOURNE | $4,893 |
| LIONS FLOAT INC | $4,413 |
| POINT WEBER ASSOCIATION | $3,500 |
| OTHER LOCAL SHOOLS AND ORGANIZATION | $2,970 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,703 |
| ST ANTHONY SCHOOL | $2,273 |
| USACANADA LIONS LEADERSHIP FORUM | $2,000 |
| LIONS DAY AT THE UNITED NATIONS | $1,700 |
| SAN JOAQUIN OMEGA LEO CLUB | $1,018 |
| BALLICO-CRESSEY 4H CLUB | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $750 |
| ATWATER HIGH SCHOOL | $750 |
| LIVINGSTON HIGH SCHOOL | $750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $750 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 37% of California Lions Youth and Camp Foundati’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 42% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 31% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +81% since the first grant, against -19% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 22 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, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- LFLIONS FLOAT INC3× · 2022–2024 · $17k · revenue +81%
- MCMERCED COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC2× · 2022–2023 · $3k · revenue +114%
- TMThe Magic Yarn Project2× · 2023–2024 · $973 · revenue +31%
Funded once
- MYMD4 YOUTH OUTREACH COMMITTEEone grant, 2023 · $27k
- LCLIONS CLUBS INTERNATION CONVETION - BOSTONone grant, 2023 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
Youth sports
The mission of the Club is to inspire and enable all youth, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens. Boys & Girls Club of North Lake Tahoe has been a cornerstone of the…
California Magic SC is a community-based club whose mission is to educate, inspire,and empower youth in a positive way through the beautiful game of soccer.While this small and select club is committed to high achievement in soccer,the…
Monterey County Soccer Club is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the positive development of our youth through their participation in a safe health and affordable soccer program that is fun and rewarding for who participate
To serve the millbrae community
Provide lacrosse activities for youth
To SERVE our community
Kids outdoor sports camp is dedicated to building the next generation of outdoor and conservation leaders to ensure a bright future for california hunting, angling, archery and outdoors.
Operate and run a boys and girls club for merced, california
Our mission is to empower youth using outdoor adventure learning to help them achieve their personal potential. Through outings in the mountains and on the sea, participants will develop a strong foundation for personal health and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lions Clubs International Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Merced County Arts Council Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 40 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 Lions Clubs International Foundation ↗
- Who funds LIONS FLOAT INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA LIONS CAMP ↗
- Who funds MERCED COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds The Magic Yarn Project ↗
- Who funds ATWATER YOUTH SOCCER LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds GREATER YOSEMITE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds TEAM ELEVATE 7ON7 ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE HEART OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MANTECA ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 California Lions Youth and Camp Foundati 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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