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International Association of Lions Clubs at a glance

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International Association of Lions Clubs

Raleigh host lions club primarily exists to provide assistance to those who are blind or visually impaired and to help eradicate preventable blindness.

$159k
Granted FY2026still arriving
6
Grants FY2026still arriving
2
States reached
$60k
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.

Health$145kRecreation & Sports$130kHuman Services$27kInternational$9k
02FY2026 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $137,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $158,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $21,500 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 · FY2026

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $77k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$12,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NC LIONS FOUNDATION$60,000
NC LIONS VIP FISHING TOURNAMENT INC$35,000
NC READING SERVICE$12,000
LEADER DOG FOR THE BLIND$10,000
UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
DUKE EYE CENTER$10,000
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 (FY23–26, $205k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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 DOG FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 8%NC LIONS FOUNDATION: $60k → 12%LEADER DOG FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 8%NC LIONS FOUNDATION: $60k → 12%LEADER DOG FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 8%NC LIONS FOUNDATION: $37k → 12%NC LIONS FOUNDATION: $18k → 12%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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$377k · 7 repeat orgs$71k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +6% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2026, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
5

Total granted

$377k
$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+6%

Still filing today

86%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25’26
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyReligionOther
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

  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA LIONS INCORPORATED
    4× · 2023–2026 · $175k · revenue +9%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2024–2026 · $30k · revenue +6%
  • UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2024–2026 · $30k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • MI
    MIRACLES IN SIGHTgraduated
    one grant, 2025 · $25k · revenue +44%
  • GM
    GOVENOR MOREHEAD FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · 46% of their budget
  • WF
    WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCESgraduated
    one grant, 2025 · $10k · revenue +71%
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
The Medical Foundation of Wake Forest University Health Sciences and North Car

See schedule oto render aid and assistance to wake forest university health sciences (wfuhs) and north carolina baptist hospital (ncbh) in their pursuits by approved methods for the promotion of medical science and medical knowledge, the…

Health
2
North Carolina Business Leaders for Educ

The mission of north carolina business leaders for education (dba best nc) is to unite an engaged and informed business perspective to dramatically transform and improve north carolina's education system. our goal is for every student to…

Education
3
Lexington Medical Center Foundation Inc

To promote and advance charitable, educational, and scientific purposes by supporting and operating for the benefit of and to carry out the purposes of lexington medical center (dba atrium health wake forest baptist lexington medical…

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4
Carolina Neurosurgery & Spine Education and Research Foundation
Health
5
North Carolina Baptist Hospital

See schedule o for continuationnorth carolina baptist hospital (at times also referred to as the "hospital or "ncbh or "the filing organization") is an integral part of atrium health wake forest baptist (ahwfb), a preeminent learning…

Health
6
North Carolina Medical Society

To organize members of the medical profession to advance medical science.

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7
North Carolina Biotechnology Center

The north carolina biotechnology center aids the biotechnology-related efforts of researchers, businesses, state and federal governments, and other agencies primarily through awards of grants and loans related to specific programs and…

Science & Tech
8
Triangle Global Health Consortium Inc

The mission of the north carolina global health alliance is to advance north carolina as an international center for research, training, education, advocacy and business dedicated to improving the health of the world's communities. we…

Health
9
Als United North Carolina

To discover treatments and a cure for als and to serve, advocate for, and empower people affected by als to live their lives to the fullest.

Health
10
North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law
Crime & Legal
11
Wilkes Medical Center Foundation

To support and carry out the functions and purposes of wrmc hospital operating corporation (dba atrium health wake forest baptist wilkes medical center) to enhance the delivery of quality health care within the organization's region.

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Lions Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is Govenor Morehead Foundation Inc. 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, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 12 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
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTH CAROLINA LIONS INCORPORATED: $174,750 · Human ServicesNORTH CAROLINA LIONS INCORPORATEDLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $30,000 · Human ServicesLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLINDNORTH CAROLINA LIONS VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS FISHING TOURNAMENT: $46,000 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA LIONS VISUALLY IMPAIRED …INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS: $44,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUB…MIRACLES IN SIGHT: $25,000 · OtherMIRACLES IN SIGHTTRIANGLE RADIO READING SERVICE: $22,000 · OtherTRIANGLE RADIO READING SERVICEGOVENOR MOREHEAD FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · OtherGOVENOR MOREHEAD FOUNDATION INCDUKE UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · EducationUNC HEALTH FOUNDA…WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES: $10,000 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVE…Lions Clubs International Foundation: $9,000 · PhilanthropyBAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOMES OF NORTH CAROLINA INCORPORATED: $6,555 · Religion
Human Services$204,750Other$157,000Education$70,000Philanthropy$9,000Religion$6,555

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 budgetNORTH CAROLINA LIONS INCORPORATED: $174,750 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA LIONS VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS FISHING TOURNAMENT: $46,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRIANGLE RADIO READING SERVICE: $22,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetGOVENOR MOREHEAD FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetLions Clubs International Foundation: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOMES OF NORTH CAROLINA INCORPORATED: $6,555 over 1y, 0.0% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%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 · 0–30%
    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 12 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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