Minnesota · Public charity
Clear Lake Lions Club
To serve the needs of the local community through volunteer projects.
- $325k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 11
- Itemized grants FY2026
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Itemized, FY2026
- $152k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2026
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $47,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 18
- FY2019 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 1
- Total assets, FY2026
- $481k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 56% of the organizations Clear Lake Lions Club funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
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 year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 11 | $152k | 91% |
| FY2025 | 18 | $201k | 56% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $189k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $100k | 57% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $68k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $61k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $44k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $62k | 50% |
93% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Public Benefit$185kFood & Nutrition$138kEducation$77kRecreation & Sports$71kYouth Development$60kHealth$45kHousing & Shelter$39kHuman Services$30kOther$0
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Becker Food Shelf | $47,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Becker Youth Association | $24,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Clearwater Clear Lake Food Shelf | $22,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Becker Bulldog Archery | $10,001 | 1 | n/a |
| Clear Lake Area Youth Baseball | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| 3 of a Kind | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Veteran Resource & Enrichment Center Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Foley Clay Target Club | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Help for the Homeless Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($850k), not named here.
About Clear Lake Lions Club
- How much does Clear Lake Lions Club give?
- Clear Lake Lions Club reported 11 itemized grants totaling $151,821, out of $324,573 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 18 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
- What does Clear Lake Lions Club fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2026, its largest causes are Public Benefit (22%), Food & Nutrition (17%), Education (9%).
- Who are Clear Lake Lions Club's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2026: Becker Food Shelf ($48k), Becker Youth Association ($24k), Clearwater Clear Lake Food Shelf ($23k).
- Does Clear Lake Lions Club fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Where is Clear Lake Lions Club based?
- Clear Lake Lions Club is based in MN.
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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
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The camps
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By state
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