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International Assoc of Lions Clubs at a glance

· Public charity

International Assoc of Lions Clubs

To create and foster a spirit of understanding among people.

$114k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$187kRecreation & Sports$125kYouth Development$111kEducation$70kHealth$50kFood & Nutrition$46kInternational$35kReligion$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $82,397, the rows itemized in this filing. The $113,946 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $31,549 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 $10k7 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $41k
$7,498
Median grant
1
States reached
$207k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Scottish Rites Learning Center of W$20,000
Salvation Army$10,509
Catholic Charities$10,000
Boy Scouts Of America$8,147
Women's Protective Services$7,498
South Plains Food Bank$5,963
Texas Lions Camp$5,280
Sick Children's Clinic$5,000
St Benedict's Chapel$5,000
Meals On Wheels$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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%Meals On Wheels: $5k → 17%Meals On Wheels: $5k → 17%Lubbock Impact: $5k → 17%Texas Boys Ranch: $5k → 17%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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$575k · 12 repeat orgs$67k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
7

Total granted

$575k
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+45%

Still filing today

92%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyReligionOther
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

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $101k · revenue +20%
  • WP
    WOMEN'S PROTECTIVE SERVICES
    5× · 2018–2025 · $32k · revenue +46%
  • LB
    LUBBOCK BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $31k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE SOUTHWEST INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +45%
  • SR
    Scottish Rites Learning Center
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • HF
    Habitate For Humanity
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
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
Lubbock Family Outreach Center Inc Dba Family Guidance & Outreach Center

The Family Guidance & Outreach Center of Lubbock is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect and supporting, mentoring, and educating parents.

Human Services
2
Children's Home of Lubbock and Family Service Agency Inc

Working in creative collaboration to provide quality care that transforms the lives of at-risk children and their families through the active compassion of christ.

Human Services
3
Community Health Center of Lubbock Inc

Provide quality primary and preventataive health care services to those in need.

Health
4
Goodwill Industries of Lubbock Contract Services Inc

Goodwill is a local nonprofit helping people overcome challenges, build skills, find jobs and grow careers.

Employment
5
West Texas Food Bank

The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…

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6
Goodwill Industries of Lubbock Inc

Goodwill is a local nonprofit helping people overcome challenges, build skills, find jobs and grow careers.

Employment
7
Fort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels and Much Much More

See Schedule OFort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels provides comprehensive services, including Meals on Wheels, congregate meals, transportation, case management, health screenings, information and referral services, recreation, and more. Our…

Human Services
8
Lubbock Rape Crisis Center

To provide victims of sexual assault in the lubbock county and surrounding area with free, confidential crisis advocacy, assistance, and support, and to promote public awareness of the realities of sexual victimization and strive toward…

Health
9
Lubbock Chamber of Commerce

The lubbock chamber of commerce provides promotion of business and community growth and development as well as preserving the competitive business enterprise system in the lubbock and surrounding area.

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10
Lubbock Area United Way Inc

Giving people hope. working to address the root issues of the significant challenges facing our south plains communities to create lasting, positive change.

Philanthropy
11
Volunteer Center of Lubbock Inc

The volunteer center of lubbock inspires a more engaged community by helping people find their purpose and act on it.

Community Improvement
12
Junior League of Lubbock Inc

The junior league of lubbock is an organization of women whose mission is to advance women's leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration, and training.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Girls and Boys Ranch; the most unlike its peers is The Scottish Rite Learning Center of West Texas. 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

16 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. 16 of the 22 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)
16/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $101,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES INCBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 694 SOUTH PLAINS: $80,551 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 694 SOUTH PLAINSTHE SCOTTISH RITE LEARNING CENTER OF WEST TEXAS: $60,000 · OtherTHE SCOTTISH RITE LEARNING CENTER OF WEST TEXASSICK CHILDRENS CLINIC INC 1002 AVE A: $50,000 · OtherSICK CHILDRENS CLINIC INC 1002 AVE AYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF LUBBOCK: $15,000 · Other+5 more: $41,827 · Other+5 moreTEXAS LIONS CAMP INC: $124,718 · HealthTEXAS LIONS CAMP INCRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE SOUTHWEST INC: $10,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE C…WOMEN'S PROTECTIVE SERVICES: $32,498 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S P…MEALS ON WHEELS: $10,393 · Human ServicesMEALS ON …TEXAS GIRLS AND BOYS RANCH: $5,000 · Human ServicesTEXAS GIR…LUBBOCK IMPACT INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesLUBBOCK I…Lions Clubs International Foundation: $35,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WEST TEXAS: $5,000 · PhilanthropyLUBBOCK MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $20,449 · Food & NutritionSOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC: $15,050 · Food & NutritionLUBBOCK BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB INC: $30,733 · Youth DevelopmentSAINT BENEDICT'S CHAPEL INC: $5,000 · Religion
Other$348,378Health$134,718Human Services$52,891Philanthropy$40,000Food & Nutrition$35,499Youth Development$30,733Religion$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTEXAS LIONS CAMP INC: $124,718 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $101,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 694 SOUTH PLAINS: $80,551 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetTHE SCOTTISH RITE LEARNING CENTER OF WEST TEXAS: $60,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetLions Clubs International Foundation: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S PROTECTIVE SERVICES: $32,498 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLUBBOCK BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB INC: $30,733 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLUBBOCK MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $20,449 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC: $15,050 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF LUBBOCK: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS: $10,393 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE SOUTHWEST INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTEXAS GIRLS AND BOYS RANCH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLUBBOCK IMPACT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WEST TEXAS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT BENEDICT'S CHAPEL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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.

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.

Ch Foundation IncCommunity Foundation …Lubbock South Plains …Diekemper Family Foun…Texas Instruments Fou…The Evelyn M Davies F…Kuykendall FoundationSouth Plains Foundati…Helen Jones Foundatio…HDS FoundationXcel Energy FoundationRushing Family Founda…
Ch Foundation IncTX22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ch Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of West Texas · Lubbock South Plains Lions Club · Diekemper Family Foundation Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Evelyn M Davies Foundation Trust · Kuykendall Foundation · South Plains Foundation · Helen Jones Foundation Inc · HDS Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Rushing Family 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 International Assoc of Lions Clubs funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from International Assoc of Lions Clubs. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 22 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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