· Public charity
Horace Lions Club
To empower volunteers and partners to improve health and well-being, strengthen communities, and support those in need through humanitarian services and grants that impact lives globally, and encourage peace and international understanding.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $222,726 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $318,569 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $95,843 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 $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $159k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| HORACE HAWKS BOOSTER CLUB | $30,000 |
| BONANZAVILLE | $23,000 |
| SOUTHERN VALLEY FIRE & RESCURE | $20,080 |
| FURNITURE MISSION OF THE RRV | $17,991 |
| HAITI EYE MISSION | $16,980 |
| YWCA | $10,500 |
| ND ASSOCIATION OF THE BLIND | $10,000 |
| LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND | $10,000 |
| CROSSES FOR CAMERON | $10,000 |
| GREAT PLAINS FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| DAVENPORT FIRE & RESCUE | $8,000 |
| LEND A HAND UP | $6,175 |
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 (FY24–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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 +25% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 6 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, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k 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
- FMFURNITURE MISSION OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY2× · 2024–2025 · $53k · revenue +25%
- HHHORACE HAWKS BOOSTER CLUB2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue +5%
- HEHAITI EYE MISSION2× · 2024–2025 · $39k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- HRHORACE RURAL FIRE PROTECTION DISTone grant, 2024 · $18k
- CRCOLFAX RURAL FIRE PROTECTIONone grant, 2024 · $15k
- PRPEOPLES RISING ACADEMYone grant, 2024 · $15k
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.
Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.
It is the mission of the Odd Fellows Home to be a "Place Where Somebody Cares." This has been the motto off Odd Fellows Home since the 1925 dedication. The Odd Fellows Home's mission is to provide a comfortable and pleasant atmosphere as…
The mission of Linton Hospital and Clinics is to enhance the health, well-being, and quality of life of the people we serve.
The mission of the Winona Health Foundation is to gather, steward, and distribute resources needed to support and advance the mission of Winona Health and its affiliates.
The optometric foundation of nd is focused on "improving lives by improving sight". organized for accepting and administering charitable donations to improve the visual health and welfare of north dakota's citizens, inlcuding funding…
To eliminate hunger in south dakota.
To deliver compassionate care by advancing the physical and spiritual well-being of the communities we serve through smart medicine and exceptional service.
With the aim to positively impact health in our region, Dakota Medical Foundation hosts a family of programs and education initiatives. We lead initiatives to create a region of the healthiest people, build the fundraising success of…
Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support North Dakota State University.
To provide a "home away from home and offer support to families seeking medical care for their children.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca Cass Clay and the most unlike its peers is Haiti Eye Mission. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 20 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 FURNITURE MISSION OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds HORACE HAWKS BOOSTER CLUB ↗
- Who funds Cass County North Dakota Historical Society ↗
- Who funds HAITI EYE MISSION ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds NORTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION OF THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA CASS CLAY ↗
- Who funds Great Plains Food Bank ↗
- Who funds GARDEN OF HEALING PARK INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Lend A Hand Up Inc ↗
- Who funds BEK Care LLC ↗
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: Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · Dakota Medical Foundation · Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Horace 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.
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