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Horace Lions Club at a glance

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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.

$319k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Human Services$96kPublic Safety & Disaster$70kHealth$58kRecreation & Sports$40kArts & Culture$39kInternational$39kFood & Nutrition$10kYouth Development$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $222,726, the rows itemized in this filing. The $318,569 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $95,843 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 $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $159k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$525k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CROSSES FOR CAMERON$10,000
GREAT PLAINS FOOD BANK$10,000
LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND$10,000
DAVENPORT FIRE & RESCUE$8,000
LEND A HAND UP$6,175
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 8%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 8%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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$226k · 7 repeat orgs$183k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
7

Total granted

$226k
$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+14%

Still filing today

86%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • FM
    FURNITURE MISSION OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $53k · revenue +25%
  • HH
    HORACE HAWKS BOOSTER CLUB
    2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue +5%
  • HE
    HAITI EYE MISSION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $39k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • HR
    HORACE RURAL FIRE PROTECTION DIST
    one grant, 2024 · $18k
  • CR
    COLFAX RURAL FIRE PROTECTION
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
  • PR
    PEOPLES RISING ACADEMY
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
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
Catholic Charities North Dakota

Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.

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2
Odd Fellows and Rebekah Home of North Dakota Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
3
Linton Hospital

The mission of Linton Hospital and Clinics is to enhance the health, well-being, and quality of life of the people we serve.

Health
4
Winona Health Foundation

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.

Health
5
Optometric Foundation of North Dakota Inc

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…

Health
6
Feeding South Dakota

To eliminate hunger in south dakota.

Food & Nutrition
7
Good Samaritan Hospital Association

To deliver compassionate care by advancing the physical and spiritual well-being of the communities we serve through smart medicine and exceptional service.

Health
8
Dakota Medical Foundation

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…

Health
9
North Dakota Natural Resources Trust
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10
North Dakota State University Foundation

Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support North Dakota State University.

Education
11
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities Midwest Mn Wi Ia

To provide a "home away from home and offer support to families seeking medical care for their children.

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12
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca Cass Clay; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 20 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)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSOUTHERN VALLEY FIRE & RESCURE: $20,080 · OtherSOUTHERN VALLEY FIRE & RESCUREHORACE RURAL FIRE PROTECTION DIST: $17,720 · OtherHORACE RURAL FIRE PROTECTION DISTDAVENPORT FIRE & RESCUE: $17,575 · OtherDAVENPORT FIRE & RESCUENORTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION OF THE BLIND INC: $17,500 · OtherNORTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION OF THE BLIND INCCOLFAX RURAL FIRE PROTECTION: $15,000 · OtherCOLFAX RURAL FIRE PROTECTIONPEOPLES RISING ACADEMY: $15,000 · OtherPEOPLES RISING ACADEMYHORACE COMMUNITY SENIORS: $6,000 · Other+1 more: $5,250 · OtherFURNITURE MISSION OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY: $52,991 · Human ServicesFURNITURE MISSION OF…LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $20,000 · Human ServicesLEADER DOGS FOR THE …HAITI EYE MISSION: $38,980 · HealthHAITI EYE MISSIONGARDEN OF HEALING PARK INC: $10,000 · HealthGARDEN OF HEALING …RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY INC: $9,875 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HO…Lend A Hand Up Inc: $6,175 · HealthLend A Hand Up IncHORACE HAWKS BOOSTER CLUB: $40,000 · EducationHORACE HAWK…Cass County North Dakota Historical Society: $39,000 · Arts & CultureCass Count…YWCA CASS CLAY: $10,500 · Housing & ShelterGreat Plains Food Bank: $10,000 · Food & NutritionYOUNG LIFE: $7,500 · Youth Development
Other$164,125Human Services$72,991Health$65,030Education$40,000Arts & Culture$39,000Housing & Shelter$10,500Food & Nutrition$10,000Youth Development$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$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFURNITURE MISSION OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY: $52,991 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetHORACE HAWKS BOOSTER CLUB: $40,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetCass County North Dakota Historical Society: $39,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetHAITI EYE MISSION: $38,980 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH DAKOTA ASSOCIATION OF THE BLIND INC: $17,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetGreat Plains Food Bank: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGARDEN OF HEALING PARK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY INC: $9,875 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLend A Hand Up Inc: $6,175 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBEK Care LLC: $5,250 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Blue Cross Blue Shiel…Dakota Medical Founda…Fargo-Moorhead Area F…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring FoundationND17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Horace Lions Club funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Horace Lions Club. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Horace Lions Club?

    Find your warmest path to Horace Lions Club 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.

    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 20 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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