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Cullman Lions Club at a glance

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Cullman Lions Club

To serve those in the community who are less fortunate.

$161k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Health$102kInternational$85kHuman Services$54kFood & Nutrition$50kArts & Culture$10k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $109,514, the rows itemized in this filing. The $160,746 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $51,232 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 · 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
RecipientAmount
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
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 8%UNSHELTERED INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$198k · 4 repeat orgs$103k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +2% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
3

Total granted

$198k
$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+2%

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.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • TE
    THE EYESIGHT FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $72k · revenue +714%
  • CC
    CULLMAN CARING FOR KIDS INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $36k · revenue +32%
  • SD
    SOUTHEASTERN DIABETES EDUCATION SERVICES INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • NA
    NORTH ALABAMA AGRIPLEX FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +1%
  • UI
    UNSHELTERED INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +2%
  • C
    CREAA
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
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.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
United Way of Cullman County Inc

to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities through promoting the collection and responsible distribution of charitable funds

Philanthropy
2
Child Advocacy Center of Cullman Inc

Nurturing hope, encouraging health, and promoting healing in troubled families through community collaboration, communication and cooperation

Human Services
3
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
4
Community Food Bank of Central Alabama

To feed people in need today and foster collaborative solutions to end hunger tomorrow.

Food & Nutrition
5
Alabama Lions Sight Association Inc

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.

Health
6
Food Bank of North Alabama Inc

collect warehouse & distribute food to needy organizations

Food & Nutrition
7
Southeast Alabama Rural Health Associates

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.

Health
8
Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils

Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama

Environment
9
Central North Al Health Service Inc

Provide primary health care to mostly low-income and underserved persons.

Health
10
Aids Alabama Inc

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.

Health
11
Food Bank of East Alabama Inc

To feed the needy

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12
Service Dogs Alabama Inc

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…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Eyesight Foundation of Alabama Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE EYESIGHT FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA INC: $71,599 · HealthTHE EYESIGHT FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA INCGood Samaritan Health Clinic of Cullman Inc: $60,000 · HealthGood Samaritan Health Clinic of Cullman IncNORTH ALABAMA AGRIPLEX FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH ALABAMA AGRI…CULLMAN CARING FOR KIDS INC: $36,175 · OtherCULLMAN CARING FO…CREAA: $10,000 · OtherCREAAUNSHELTERED INTERNATIONAL: $25,000 · Human ServicesUNSHELTERED I…LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $10,000 · Human ServicesLEADER DOGS F…SOUTHEASTERN DIABETES EDUCATION SERVICES INC: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsSOUTHEASTER…THE LINK OF CULLMAN COUNTY INC: $7,500 · Community Improvement
Health$131,599Arts & Culture$50,000Other$46,175Human Services$35,000Recreation & Sports$30,000Community Improvement$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE EYESIGHT FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA INC: $71,599 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetGood Samaritan Health Clinic of Cullman Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH ALABAMA AGRIPLEX FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCULLMAN CARING FOR KIDS INC: $36,175 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN DIABETES EDUCATION SERVICES INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetUNSHELTERED INTERNATIONAL: $25,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LINK OF CULLMAN COUNTY INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of 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.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Daniel Foundation…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Daniel Foundation of AlabamaAL13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cullman Lions Club funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cullman Lions Club. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 9 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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