Tennessee · Public charity
Lakeland Lions Foundation
The organization is dedicated to providing sight and hearing exams for people that cannot afford these tests and also to provide glasses and hearing aids for them. The organization raising money by selling pecans to fund the various sight charities and local charities and education organizations.
- $362k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $23,385
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $35,385
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 14
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $30k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations Lakeland Lions Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $359k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $176k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $66k | 63% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $30k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $27k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $27k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $15k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $8k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid-South Lions Sight and Hearing Service Inc dba Mid-South Lions | $144,885 | 7 | 5% |
| State of Tennessee | $65,385 | 6 | n/a |
| Youth Villages Inc | $59,365 | 6 | 0% |
| Project Orbis International Inc | $44,385 | 3 | 0% |
| Leader Dogs for the Blind | $44,385 | 3 | 0% |
| The University of Tennessee Foundation Inc | $41,385 | 3 | 0% |
| World Cataract Foundation | $41,385 | 3 | 4% |
| Guiding Eye for the Blind | $41,385 | 3 | n/a |
| World Services for the Blind | $33,385 | 2 | 1% |
| Children's Cancer Research Fund | $33,385 | 2 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid-South Lions Sight and Hearing Service Inc dba Mid-South Lions | $144,885 | 7 | 5% |
| State of Tennessee | $65,385 | 6 | n/a |
| Youth Villages Inc | $59,365 | 6 | 0% |
| Project Orbis International Inc | $44,385 | 3 | 0% |
| Leader Dogs for the Blind | $44,385 | 3 | 0% |
| The University of Tennessee Foundation Inc | $41,385 | 3 | 0% |
| World Cataract Foundation | $41,385 | 3 | 4% |
| Guiding Eye for the Blind | $41,385 | 3 | n/a |
| World Services for the Blind | $33,385 | 2 | 1% |
| Children's Cancer Research Fund | $33,385 | 2 | 1% |
| Breakthrough T1d | $33,385 | 2 | 0% |
| Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation | $32,385 | 2 | 0% |
| Southern College of Optometry | $31,385 | 2 | 0% |
| Sight Van | $27,830 | 2 | n/a |
| Internation Association of Lions Clubs | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lakeland Education Foundation | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lakeland Lions Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
About Lakeland Lions Foundation
- How much does Lakeland Lions Foundation give?
- Lakeland Lions Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $361,555 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Lakeland Lions Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (55%), Human Services (15%), Education (13%).
- Who are Lakeland Lions Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mid-South Lions Sight and Hearing Service Inc dba Mid-South Lions ($145k), State of Tennessee ($65k), Youth Villages Inc ($59k).
- Does Lakeland Lions Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lakeland Lions Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Lakeland Lions Foundation based?
- Lakeland Lions Foundation is based in TN.
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