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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…

$66k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
36
Grants FY2024
14
Organizations funded FY2023
57%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$500
Largest grant, FY2024
$27,176
Organizations funded a year
1 to 14
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$956k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 57% of the organizations California Lions Youth and Camp Foundati funded were first-time grantees, receiving 51% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
InternationalArts & CultureHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving32$66k69%
FY202314$151k57%
FY20229$30k100%
FY20201$5kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Youth Development$135kInternational$79kCommunity Improvement$19kRecreation & Sports$9kEducation$3kArts & Culture$3kAnimals$2kMembership Benefit$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of California Lions Youth and Camp Foundati by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lions Clubs International Foundation$27,17610%
Lions Float Inc$16,80936%
California Lions Camp$5,00049%
Point Weber Association Inc$3,5001n/a
Merced County Arts Council Inc$2,50020%
The Magic Yarn Project$97320%
Atwater Youth Soccer League$55011%
Greater Yosemite Council Boy Scouts of America$50010%
Team Elevate 7on7$50010%
Camp Fire Heart of California$50011%
Boys & Girls Club of Manteca$50010%

Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($193k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget California Lions Youth and Camp Foundati supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLions Clubs International Foundation: $27,176 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLions Float Inc: $16,809 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetCalifornia Lions Camp: $5,000 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetMerced County Arts Council Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Magic Yarn Project: $973 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAtwater Youth Soccer League: $550 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGreater Yosemite Council Boy Scouts of America: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTeam Elevate 7on7: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCamp Fire Heart of California: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Manteca: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA1.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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How do I get to California Lions Youth and Camp Foundati?

Find your warmest path to California Lions Youth and Camp Foundati 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.

About California Lions Youth and Camp Foundati

How much does California Lions Youth and Camp Foundati give?
California Lions Youth and Camp Foundati reported 36 grants totaling $66,282 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does California Lions Youth and Camp Foundati fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (54%), International (31%), Community Improvement (8%).
Who are California Lions Youth and Camp Foundati's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Lions Clubs International Foundation ($27k), Lions Float Inc ($17k), California Lions Camp ($5k).
Does California Lions Youth and Camp Foundati fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does California Lions Youth and Camp Foundati accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as California Lions Youth and Camp Foundati?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is California Lions Youth and Camp Foundati based?
California Lions Youth and Camp Foundati is based in CA.

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 40 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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