· Public charity
Cullman Lions Club
To serve those in the community who are less fortunate.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $109,514 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $160,746 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $51,232 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $52k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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.
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 +32% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- TETHE EYESIGHT FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA INC3× · 2023–2025 · $72k · revenue +714%
- CCCULLMAN CARING FOR KIDS INC3× · 2023–2025 · $36k · revenue +32%
- SDSOUTHEASTERN DIABETES EDUCATION SERVICES INC2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- NANORTH ALABAMA AGRIPLEX FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +1%
- UIUNSHELTERED INTERNATIONALone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +2%
- 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.
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.
to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities through promoting the collection and responsible distribution of charitable funds
Nurturing hope, encouraging health, and promoting healing in troubled families through community collaboration, communication and cooperation
To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers
To feed people in need today and foster collaborative solutions to end hunger tomorrow.
The Association's Mission is to fund quality eye treatment for the medically indigent of Alabama. Services provided include providing glasses, surgeries, anesthesia, medically necessary contact lenses, prosthesis, tests and eye medication.
collect warehouse & distribute food to needy organizations
We exist to provide quality, culturally competent primary and preventive health services to the residents of southeast alabama without regard to their ability to pay.
Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama
Provide primary health care to mostly low-income and underserved persons.
Aids alabama devotes its energy and resources statewide to helping people with hiv/aids live healthy, independent lives and works to prevent the spread of hiv.
To feed the needy
Service dogs alabama trains and provides service dogs for people with medical and psychiatric disablilites as well as intervention facility dogs. service dogs alabama provides recipients with confidence and independence enabling them to…
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 North Alabama Agriplex Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 9 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 THE EYESIGHT FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds Good Samaritan Health Clinic of Cullman Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH ALABAMA AGRIPLEX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CULLMAN CARING FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN DIABETES EDUCATION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds UNSHELTERED INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds THE LINK OF CULLMAN COUNTY INC ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · 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 organization 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.
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.