· Private foundation
Lancaster County Lions Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Rockville Nursing Home Foundation | $3,204 |
| Lions Club International Foundation | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Lions of Virginia Foundation | $1,000 |
| Youth Club of Lancaster County | $800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| Lions of Virginia Bland Foundation | $500 |
| Lions Medical Eye Bank and Research Center of Eastern VA | $500 |
| American Junior Golf Association | $250 |
| Lancaster Community Library | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of its 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 14% of Lancaster County Lions Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 67% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 55%.
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 +119% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 4 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RNROCKVILLE NURSING HOME FOUNDATION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $6k · revenue ×271
- LCLions Clubs International Foundation3× · 2023–2025 · $6k · revenue +14%
- LOLIONS OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2025 · $2k · revenue +119%
Funded once
- ODOld Dominion Eye Careone grant, 2020 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $1k
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.
To support Vermont Lions and their local Lions Clubs in charitable activities particularly in the areas of vision, hunger, childhood cancer, the environment, youth, and diabetes
The mission of the boys & girls club of lincoln/lancaster county is to empower all youth to reach their full potential.
To provide funding for vision programs and scholarships in the central virginia region.
Employment of the blind and visually impaired
Promotion of social welfare through youth programs, sight programs, community events and activities to generate funds for other charities.
The Association's Mission is to fund quality eye treatment for the medically indigent of Alabama. Services provided include providing glasses, surgeries, anesthesia, medically necessary contact lenses, prosthesis, tests and eye medication.
To empower all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as caring, responsible, productive citizens.
Sight and hearing prevention for residents of southeastern virginia and grants to organizations to further those goals.
Provide vision and hearing screening and corrective vision and hearing surgeries to individuals within arizona who economically are unable to afford such services.
Long island volleyball club, inc. is committed to the growth and development of youth volleyball on long island. we are committed to creating a positive competitive experience within an atmosphere of good sportsmanship and high moral…
Dedicated to permanently preserve the natural, scenic and recreational resources of the Lake George Basin.
Providing after-school recreational and educational activities for children aged 5 to 18
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 46 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.
- Who funds ROCKVILLE NURSING HOME FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Lions Clubs International Foundation ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CLUB OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LIONS OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIONS MEDICAL EYE BANK & RESEARCH CENTER OF EASTERN VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY HARVEST FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds American Junior Golf Association Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB THE NORTHERN NECK ↗
- Who funds TRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lancaster County Lions Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lancaster County Lions Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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