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Fairbanks Cheechako Lions

Provide donations to local youth sports teams for travel, uniforms, fees and local non-profits

$209k
Granted FY2022
12
Itemized grants FY2022
12
Organizations funded FY2022
92%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2022
$173k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2022
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$36,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 12
FY2021 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Total assets, FY2022
$149k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 92% of the organizations Fairbanks Cheechako Lions funded were first-time grantees, receiving 79% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202212$173k92%
FY20212$17kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2022.

Recreation & Sports$53kYouth Development$35kFood & Nutrition$26kHousing & Shelter$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$15kHuman Services$15kHealth$11kArts & Culture$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Fairbanks Soccer Club Inc$46,0002n/a
Fairbanks Rescue Mission Inc$15,00011%
Fairbanks North Star Borough School$15,0001n/a
Breast Cancer Detection Center of Alaska and Charitable Corp$11,00010%
Fairbanks Childrens Museum$10,00012%
Interior Youth Basketball Inc$9,09017%

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($84k), not named here.

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.

Rasmuson FoundationAK13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rasmuson Foundation · The Alaska Community 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.

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How do I get to Fairbanks Cheechako Lions?

Find your warmest path to Fairbanks Cheechako Lions through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Fairbanks Cheechako Lions

How much does Fairbanks Cheechako Lions give?
Fairbanks Cheechako Lions reported 12 itemized grants totaling $173,090, out of $208,863 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 12 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2022.
What does Fairbanks Cheechako Lions fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2022, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (28%), Youth Development (18%), Food & Nutrition (14%).
Who are Fairbanks Cheechako Lions's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2022: Fairbanks Soccer Club Inc ($46k), Fairbanks Rescue Mission Inc ($15k), Fairbanks North Star Borough School ($15k).
Does Fairbanks Cheechako Lions fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 92% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Fairbanks Cheechako Lions?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rasmuson Foundation, The Alaska Community Foundation.
Where is Fairbanks Cheechako Lions based?
Fairbanks Cheechako Lions is based in AK.

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 13 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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