Colorado · Public charity
Fort Collins Lions Foundation Inc
Organized exclusively for charitable, educational, benevolent and scientific purposes, particularly including but not limited to render aid, assistance and help to deserving blind persons, and render assistance and furtherance of sight conservation.
- $60k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 1
- Itemized grants FY2026
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Itemized, FY2026
- $19k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2026
- $19,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $19,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 3
- FY2019 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 1
- Total assets, FY2026
- $947k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 0% of the organizations Fort Collins Lions Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 1 | $19k | 0% |
| FY2025 | 1 | $38k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $31k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $57k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $62k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $56k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $51k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $56k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ensight Skills Center | $262,107 | 8 | 9% |
| Colorado Lions Foundation | $43,750 | 2 | 18% |
| Lions Clubs International Foundation | $26,890 | 3 | 0% |
| Advanced Hearing | $20,315 | 3 | n/a |
| Colorado Eye Consultants | $11,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Eye Center Of Northern Colorado | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
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About Fort Collins Lions Foundation Inc
- How much does Fort Collins Lions Foundation Inc give?
- Fort Collins Lions Foundation Inc reported 1 itemized grants totaling $19,000, out of $60,152 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
- What does Fort Collins Lions Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2026, its largest causes are Health (80%), Community Improvement (12%), International (8%).
- Who are Fort Collins Lions Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2026: Ensight Skills Center ($262k), Colorado Lions Foundation ($44k), Lions Clubs International Foundation ($27k).
- Does Fort Collins Lions Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Where is Fort Collins Lions Foundation Inc based?
- Fort Collins Lions Foundation Inc is based in CO.
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