· Public charity
International Association of Lions Clubs
Improving the lives of local residents with funding and outreach program for the needy and assisting with lion related charity
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $26,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $90,714 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $64,714 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIONS DISTRICT 2 - S2 | $16,000 |
| TEXAS LIONS CAMP | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $7k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TLTEXAS LIONS CAMP INC4× · 2021–2025 · $69k · revenue -1%
- IAINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS4× · 2021–2025 · $49k · revenue -18%
- HBHOUSTON BOOSTER CLUB INC3× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue -25% · 45% of their budget
Funded once
- UEUNIVERSITY EYE ASSOCIATESone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -100%
- BBBEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDSone grant, 2024 · $7k · revenue 0%
- MHMemorial Hermann Health Systemone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +13%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To empower Lions clubs, 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…
Support benevolent programs of Lions Club International.
To promote sight restoration and prevention of blindness.
To empower volunteers to serve the community, meet humanitarian needs, and promote health and well-being.
Assist local communities with sight related and other humitarian services.
To coordinate and train lions in leadership positions in other clubs throughout the district. to provide grants to the texas lions camp for disabled children in kerrville, tx, lone star eye bank, leader dog program, lions world services…
charitable and community support
Charitable services to community and general service to all
The mission of the lions sight research foundation of district 2-a2 is to enhance the worldwide sight conservation efforts of lions clubs international by supporting research to find cures for diseases of the eye and assisting with the…
To provide quality medical care at an affordable cost to the medically uninsured adults without regard to their background, in a caring environment.
Support the Leander High School sports programs by raising funds, recruiting volunteers, and holding events.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International Association of Lions Clubs and the most unlike its peers is University Eye Associates. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds TEXAS LIONS CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIONS CLUBS ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON BOOSTER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY EYE ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds TEXAS LIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDS ↗
- Who funds Memorial Hermann Health System ↗
- Who funds MAGNOLIA LIONS CLUB ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization International Association of Lions Clubs funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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