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International Ass of Lions Clubs at a glance

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International Ass of Lions Clubs

Social club to support charities in the region through donations and service.

$218k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
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.

Recreation & Sports$255kHealth$103kHuman Services$90kInternational$75kEducation$50kReligion$45kCommunity Improvement$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $210,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $217,757 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $7,757 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 · $5k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $155k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$15,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$944k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Leader Dog for the Blind$50,000
Old Dominion Eye Foundation$25,000
Lions Clubs Intl Foundation$25,000
Samaritans Purse$20,000
Virginia Lions Eye Inst Found$15,000
Arcola Methodist Church$15,000
Lions of VA Foundation$15,000
K9s for Warriors Inc$10,000
StephenSiller Tunnel to TowersFound$10,000
Wounded Warrier Project inc$10,000
Fraternal Order of Police$10,000
Rescue Mission of Roanoke inc$5,000
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, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, 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%Wounded Warrier Project inc: $10k → 14%Leader Dog for the Blind: $50k → 8%Rescue Mission of Roanoke: $5k → 20%Leader Dog for the Blind: $50k → 8%Rescue Mission of Roanoke inc: $5k → 20%Leader Dog for the Blind: $25k → 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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$595k · 8 repeat orgs$118k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
3

Total granted

$595k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+67%

Still filing today

88%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k 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
Human ServicesPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementHealthReligionAnimalsOther
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

  • NV
    Northern Virgnia Lions Youth Camp Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $255k · revenue -87% · 85% of their budget
  • LD
    LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND
    3× · 2023–2025 · $125k · revenue +2%
  • OD
    OLD DOMINION EYE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue -6%

Funded once

  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +67%
  • LF
    LOUDOUN-DULLES FOP CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +5%
  • MS
    Mercy Ships
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
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
Lions Medical Eye Bank & Research Center of Eastern Virginia Inc

The lions medical eye bank & research center of eastern virginia provides people the opportunity to donate ocular tissue, health care professionals the means to end blindness and patients the hope of clearly seeing form, color and motion.

Health
2
Lions International Florida Multiple District 35 Inc

Organization objectives:a. to advance lionism throughout the multiple district and the world.b. to untie the clubs of the multiple district in bonds of friendship, good fellowship, and mutual understanding.c. to take an active interest in…

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3
Leashes of Valor

Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…

Public Benefit
4
Worldwide Vets Incorporated

Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…

Animals
5
Altruvision

Altruvision is committed to enhancing a person's quality of life by restoring or improving vision through corneal transplantation, medical research and education.

Health
6
K9 Hurricane's Heroes Inc

K9 hurricane's heroes, a federally recognized, non-profit organization, provides "retired law enforcement and military dogs" with subsidized veterinary care so they can live a long and healthy life. often these incredible dogs are the…

Animals
7
Lions Industries for the Blind Inc

Employment of the blind and visually impaired

Employment
8
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
9
Sightlife

We serve as a global leader and partner to eliminate corneal blindness.

Community Improvement
10
Leader Dogs for the Blind Foundation

To prudently manage and invest funds in a manner that will ensure the long-term sustainability of leader dogs for the blind in accordance with the policies of the foundation.

Human Services
11
Lions World Vision Institute Inc

Increase public awareness with the long-term goal of increasing the number of donated tissues for transplantation and research to improve people's lives and honor the donor's gift.

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12
Loudoun County Volunteer Rescue Squad

Provide emergency medical and rescue services in the Town of Leesburg and the County of Loudoun, Virginia.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

11 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. 11 of the 18 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Northern Virgnia Lions Youth Camp Inc: $255,000 · OtherNorthern Virgnia Lions Youth Camp IncOLD DOMINION EYE FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · OtherOLD DOMINION EYE FOUNDATION INCARCOLA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $30,000 · OtherARCOLA UNITED METHODIST CHURCHLions of VA Foundation: $15,000 · OtherArcola Methodist Church: $15,000 · OtherVirginia Lions Eye Inst Found: $15,000 · Other+3 more: $23,000 · Other+3 moreLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $125,000 · Human ServicesLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLI…THE RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE RESCUE MISSION OF R…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT…Lions Clubs International Foundation: $55,000 · PhilanthropyLions Club…LOUDOUN-DULLES FOP CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyLOUDOUN-DU…LIONS OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Community ImprovementSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $20,000 · ReligionK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $15,000 · AnimalsSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 · Health
Other$428,000Human Services$145,000Philanthropy$65,000Community Improvement$30,000Religion$20,000Animals$15,000Health$10,000

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 budgetNorthern Virgnia Lions Youth Camp Inc: $255,000 over 2y, 85% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $125,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOLD DOMINION EYE FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetLions Clubs International Foundation: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIONS OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RESCUE MISSION OF ROANOKE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOUDOUN-DULLES FOP CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 18 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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