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Clear Lake Lions Club at a glance

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Clear Lake Lions Club

To serve the needs of the local community through volunteer projects.

$325k
Granted FY2026still arriving
11
Grants FY2026still arriving
1
States reached
$48k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% 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
02FY2026 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $151,821, the rows itemized in this filing. The $324,573 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $172,752 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 · FY2026

  • Under $10k5 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $126k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$481k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Becker Food Shelf$47,500
Becker Youth Association$24,000
Clear Lake Clearwater Food Shelf$22,500
Becker School District$12,300
Becker Bulldog Archery$10,001
Clear Lake Area Youth Baseball$10,000
Clear Lake Legion Post 534$5,520
Foley Clay Target Club$5,000
Help for the Homeless$5,000
3 of a Kind$5,000
Veterans Resource & Enrichment Cent$5,000
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$657k · 14 repeat orgs$327k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2026, 13 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
25

Total granted

$657k
$187k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther
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

  • CO
    City of Clear Lake
    4× · 2018–2025 · $117k
  • CL
    Clear Lake Clearwater Food Shelf
    5× · 2020–2025 · $107k
  • BS
    Becker School District
    9× · 2018–2026 · $89k

Funded once

  • SB
    Silver Bullet Saddle Club
    one grant, 2018 · $22k
  • BT
    Beyond the Yellow Ribbon
    one grant, 2025 · $13k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $11k
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.

03Its field
03the grantee network

5 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 5 of the 49 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
4/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

City of Clear Lake: $117,170 · OtherCity of Clear LakeClear Lake Clearwater Food Shelf: $107,200 · OtherClear Lake Clearwater Food ShelfBecker School District: $88,900 · OtherBecker School DistrictIndividual grant recipient: $69,525 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBecker Youth Association: $55,000 · OtherBecker Youth AssociationBECKER FOOD SHELF: $47,500 · OtherPalmer Township: $47,360 · OtherQuiet Oaks: $39,250 · Other+36 more: $350,761 · Other+36 moreBecker Youth Association: $24,000 · Recreation & SportsCLEARWATER CLEAR LAKE FOOD SHELF: $22,500 · Philanthropy3 OF A KIND: $5,000 · Human ServicesHELP FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesVeteran Resource & Enrichment Center Inc: $5,000 · Public Benefit
Other$922,666Recreation & Sports$24,000Philanthropy$22,500Human Services$10,000Public Benefit$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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.

  • Who funds Becker Youth Association ↗
  • Who funds CLEARWATER CLEAR LAKE FOOD SHELF ↗
  • Who funds 3 OF A KIND ↗

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 49 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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