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· Public charity
CULLMAN LIONS CLUB
To serve those in the community who are less fortunate.
$161k
Granted FY2025
6
Grants
2
Communities
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0185% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2023–2025.
Health$132kArts & Culture$50kHuman Services$35kRecreation & Sports$30kCommunity Improvement$8kOther$46k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2023
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2024
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2025
education
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2025 · 6 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $52k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
- GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CLINIC$50,000
- ALABAMA LIONS SIGHT$16,399
- CAMP SEALE HARRIS$15,000
- CULLMAN CARING FOR KIDS$10,615
- LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND$10,000
- THE LINK OF CULLMAN COUNTY$7,500
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$198k · 4 repeat orgs$103k to everyone else
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
4
3
Total granted
$198k
$85k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+14%
+584%
Still filing today
100%
67%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther
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
- GSGOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CLINIC2× · 2024–2025 · $60k · revenue +14%
- CCCULLMAN CARING FOR KIDS3× · 2023–2025 · $36k · revenue +49%
- CSCAMP SEALE HARRIS2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- NANORTH AL AGRIPLEXgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +584%
- UIUNSHELTERED INTERNATIONALgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +421%
- CCREAAone grant, 2024 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Cullman Regional Medical Center Inc
Cullman regional medical center, licensed for 175 beds, operates a 175-bed general acute care hospital for the community of cullman, alabama and surrounding areas regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
Health
2
Alabama Lions Sight Association Inc
The Association provides eye care for indigent people in the State of Alabama.
Health
3
Child Advocacy Center of Cullman
Nurturing hope, encouraging health, and promoting healing in troubled families through community collaboration, communication and cooperation
Human Services
4
Alabama Regional Medical Services
To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers
Health
5
University of Alabama Health Services
Coordinate and deliver patient care in a group practice setting.
Health
6
Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame
Arts & Culture
7
Leadership Alabama Inc
Improve state networking and relations among state leaders.
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8
Service Dogs Alabama Inc
Service dogs alabama trains and provides service dogs for people with medical and psychiatric disabilites as well as intervention facility dogs. service dogs alabama provides recipients with confidence and independence enabling them to…
Animals
9
The Arc of Central Alabama Inc
Serving people with intellectual and/or other developmental disabilities and their families.
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10
Alabama Association of Habitat
Seeking to put God's love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope.
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11
Sumter Senior Services Inc
To provide services for the elderly in sumter county.
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12
East Cullman Water System Inc
To provide water service to approx. 4,397 members located in the eastern portion of cullman county, alabama.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Eyesight Foundation of Alabama Inc and the most unlike its peers is Leader Dogs for the Blind. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Health$131,599Arts & Culture$50,000Other$46,175Human Services$35,000Recreation & Sports$30,000Community Improvement$7,500
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.
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.
Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organisation CULLMAN LIONS CLUB 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NORTH AL AGRIPLEX.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~0 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 3 filed years.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
3 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 6.8× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 631097694 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on NORTH AL AGRIPLEX, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 0 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 12% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Cullman Lions Club?
Find your warmest path to Cullman Lions Club through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines