· Public charity
International Association of Lions
To encourage service-minded people to serve their community without personal financial reward, to encourage efficiency and promote high ethical standards in the community.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $96k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXAS LIONS CAMP INC | $21,684 |
| CRISIS CENTER OF WEST TEXAS | $17,000 |
| VFW POST 4372 | $16,000 |
| JESUS HOUSE ODESSA | $15,850 |
| WEST TEXAS GIFT OF HOPE | $14,500 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $11,250 |
| CASA OF WEST TEXAS | $8,000 |
| WEST TEXAS FOOD BANK | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -3% since the first grant, against -79% for those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 5 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TLTEXAS LIONS CAMP INC4× · 2022–2025 · $65k · revenue -13%
- CCCRISIS CENTER OF WEST TEXAS3× · 2023–2025 · $39k · revenue -3%
- JHJESUS HOUSE ODESSA INC3× · 2023–2025 · $38k · revenue -15%
Funded once
- POPANHANDLE OF TEXAS LIONS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $9k · revenue -79%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBone grant, 2023 · $7k
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.
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.
A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
Meals on Wheels of Odessa enables people to live with dignity by offering community support and sustenance through coordinated services and enable older adults to live in their own homes safely and independently as long as they are able.
Uniting volunteers to prepare meals that get delivered to the food insecure
The Lullaby House missionis ot strengthen families by providing programs and services to teenage parents and familites in need which will inspire and promote generational change.
Support of special needs military or first responders and their families.
The Muleshoe Meals on Wheels purpose is to engage in all activities necessary, useful, or expedient, through operative measures and active organizations, to promote and further the interests of the Senior citizens of the area. The purpose…
Firefighter & emergency medical services for the waskom, tx area.
Provide meals on wheels, congregate meals, and recreational facility for elderly and low income persons of dawson county texas.
To assist sexual assault and domestic violence victims. To operate a safe shelter and provide counseling services.
We distribute food, clothing, and toiletry items to the poor and needy along the TX-Mexico Border as well as ministering to their spiritual needs through services, health programs, and other humanitarian efforts.
Pregnancy counseling
Pet visitation to nursing homes
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 11 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: Permian Basin Area Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization International Association of Lions funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from International Association of Lions. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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